Dr Barbara Lane is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow in Arup's global fire safety practice. She is an expert in total fire safety - decision making, tools, techniques and solutions that enable the protection of life and property in the built environment. 

Dr Lane has worked on projects around the world and specialises in complex buildings and structures. She has particular expertise in whole life cycle building fire safety, and the relevant legislative routes to compliance from concept design through to construction, handover, and the management of operational fire risk. She was appointed as an expert witness to the Grenfell Inquiry in 2017.

Dr Lane holds the Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering 2008, for outstanding personal contribution with a commercial benefit to British engineering. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016 for services to fire safety; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018 for services to fire safety research and innovation.

Barbara's current operational role at Arup is the Director of Arup University which leads the firm's foresight, research and innovation programmes.