Paul William Jowitt is a British civil engineer, Professor of Civil Engineering Systems at Heriot Watt University, and executive director of the Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology.
[3] He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to technology.
[1] Jowitt graduated from Imperial College in 1972, and lectured there from 1974 before moving to Heriot-Watt University in 1987 where he was head of civil and offshore engineering from 1989 to 1999.
[4][2] He was the lead investigator in a Heriot-Watt/Cambridge University consortium on the EPSRC-funded Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Environment Systems (ISSUES) project, intended to facilitate knowledge transfer for EPSRC's Sustainable Urban Environments Programme.
[2][5] Previously he led a number of research projects from EPSRC, UKWIR and the UK Water Utilities on water distribution network reliability, drought management and sustainable wastewater treatment.