Apollonia (Liana) Gasparre is a Senior Partner of the Geotechnical Consulting Group (GCG), a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a chartered member of the Italian Institution of Civil Engineers. She has an expertise on soil characterisation and laboratory testing and wide experience on a variety of geotechnical problems, ranging from slope stability analyses to the assessment of ground movements induced by redevelopments in urbanised areas and the design of basements and foundations, including the re-use of existing foundations. She is a member of the ISSMGE TC101, the CIRIA Geotechnical Engineering Advisory panel and the editorial panel of the ASCE JGGE. She was awarded the ICE Geotechnical Research Medal 2007 and the BGA Medal 2014.