Joanna Kennedy

Joanna Kennedy (born 22 July 1950) is a British civil engineer and project manager who was Global Leader for Programme and Project Management at Arup until 2013 (a director from 1996). She is a patron of Women into Science and Engineering (WISE), which she helped launch in 1984. From 2015 until 2023 she was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, latterly as deputy chair of the Trustee Board, and she chaired the project board for the Inspiring People redevelopment which was completed on time for the gallery's reopening, after three years closure, in June 2023. In 2024 the project was short-listed for the RIBA Stirling Prize.