Dervilla Mitchell is Chair of the UK, India, Middle East and Africa Region of Arup and a member of their Group Board with responsibility for ethics. Trained as a civil engineer she has sent most of her career working in the UK but prior to that she based in Boston and Dublin. Dervilla has been involved on a wide range of projects but a large part of her career has been involved with airports at Heathrow, Dublin and more recently Abu Dhabi on the Midfield Terminal.
Dervilla is a Fellow of Engineers Ireland, the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Academy of Engineering where she currently chairs the Diversity & Inclusion Committee. She is a member of the Prime Ministers Council for Science and Technology. She was awarded a CBE for services to engineering in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin in 2016.