This is why my resolution for the coming months is to create more opportunities for exchange and interaction – within chemical engineering and between our discipline and the wider world. Chemical engineers make fundamental contributions across all the strategy’s priority sectors. But while all this is going on, chemical engineers aren’t paralysed by despair, rather they are quietly getting on with saving the planet. Bit by bit, innovation by innovation, chemical engineers are working to make our situation that bit less perilous. I hope that in my time at IChemE, I’ve helped chemical engineers be a bit less quiet – raising our profile, engaging decision-makers and ensuring our voice is heard.