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Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Dr Theuns Henning holds many roles within the civil engineering industry, drawing on his academic background and industry experience. A Director of the Master’s programme in Infrastructure Asset Management and Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, he is also a founding member of the Climate Adaptation Platform, specialising in Asset Management, Performance Monitoring, Climate Adaptation, Performance-Based Contracts and Benchmarking.

Passionately committed to ensuring the betterment of the industry, Dr Henning is the Chief Executive Officer at Infrastructure Decision Support (IDS), which comes under the umbrella of The Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA). IDS provide industry leadership in the development, advocacy, and implementation of evidence-based decision making for infrastructure. In his role at IDS, Dr Henning was part of the original implementation of dTIMS (asset management modelling software) into New Zealand and continues to manage the national distribution and implementation of this tool.

Sought after internationally as a speaker and consultant, Dr Henning has worked with many large organisations such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. In this capacity, his focus has been on Climate Adaptation, Asset Management and the development of design and decision-making guidelines. He has completed a number of projects for the World Bank, supporting countries with the integration of climate resilience into asset management. These countries include the Philippines, South Africa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, St Vincent and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Dr Henning is a published author of 55 international journals, Six Road Infrastructure Management (RIMS) Body of Knowledge Guidelines and is the primary author of four World Bank Guidelines for developing countries. He holds a Master of Engineering (Transportation) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He completed his PhD at the University of Auckland in 2009, where he received the Foundation for Research and Technology Bright Future Scholarship.