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The UK’s Women’s Engineering Society (WES) has announced the winners of the 2025 Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) awards, which celebrate women who are trailblazers in the world of engineering.
The nominations were made both by individuals and professional institutes, and were judged by a panel of independent industry experts led by head judge, Laura Shrieves, VP engineering at Ultra Marine.
The theme for this year’s WE50, ‘Together We Engineer’ showcases the powerful impact made by women engineers.
The winners are involved in everything from digital health, decarbonisation, and heritage projects to space science, sustainability and accessibility.
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The Top 50 Women in Engineering for 2025 are, in alphabetical order:
- Yewande Akinola, technical director, CBRE
- Anam Balbolia, principal engineer, WSP
- Julia Barr, commercial manager, Mott MacDonald
- Elena Brake, trainee engineer and student, Fishtek and University of Plymouth
- Christina Brugger, product consultant/ founder, InsightSprint
- Denise Cardenas Lopez, senior director/vice president , Strategic Capability and Integrated Delivery Amentum
- Brigit Coleman-Green, Submarine Delivery Agency; Dreadnought Supply and Support Team
- Emily D, software engineer, GCHQ
- Honora Driscoll, Ph.D. student University of Oxford
- Lauren Eatwell, head of WindWings, BAR Technologies
- Marianne Ellis, director of CARMA CARMA, EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing Hub, University of Bath
- Pamela Esin, associate director, HDR Inc.
- Anni Feng, associate director, Hoare Lea
- Nour Ghadban, research assistant (Biomedical Engineering), University of Glasgow
- Priyanka Ghosh, advanced research engineer, The Manufacturing Technology Centre
- Alice Goodwin, project engineer – Aircraft Asset Management, Virgin Atlantic
- Poppy Harrison senior engineer, Committee co-chair, AtkinsRealis
- Rachel Hayden, senior civil engineer, WSP
- Rachael Hazael, associate professor in Applied Materials, Cranfield University
- Puja Hazlehurst, head of Product Engineering, Caeli Nova
- Kareema Hilton, Machining Applications Theme lead, NMIS
- Fauzia Idrees, director of Cyber Security, University of London and Global Council for Responsible AI
- Melissa Jordan, principal project manager, HDR Inc.
- Imisi Joseph, senior data analyst, JLR
- Natasha Khan, Nuclear Safety engineer, Mott MacDonald
- Jolie Lau, facade engineer, Arup
- Oana Lazar, Embedded Software engineer, Tessent Embedded Analytics (Siemens Electronic Design Automation)
- Hannah Livingstone, Materials Engineering Degree apprentice, Rolls-Royce
- Gail M, solutions architect, GCHQ
- Keziah Magit, final year PhD student, University of Nottingham
- Kathryn Malcolm, associate project manager, Global Engineering AstraZeneca
- Fay Newham, associate engineer, Ramboll
- Rachel Paley, senior consultant, Arup
- Cambell Plant, asset management consultant, Binnies UK Ltd
- Vanessa Quansah, head of Construction Engineering, Lendlease (soon to be Bovis)
- Tanja Radu, reader in Environmental Engineering, Loughborough University
- Ramsha Saleem, assistant engineer, WSP
- Magdalena Sartin Group VP Engineering, Capital Projects and Operational Excellence, Johnson Matthey
- Kelly Shungu, Hardware engineer, Leonardo
- Barbara Smitten, associate director, Cundall
- Meini Su, senior lecturer, The University of Manchester
- Jo-Anne Tait, principal lecturer, Robert Gordon University
- Ruth Tatanga, senior mechanical engineer, chapmanbdsp
- Evona The, Strategic Foresight co-founder/Innovation lead, Jaguar Land Rover
- Anna Terry, principal mechanical engineer, AWE
- Davina Urquhart, welding engineer, AWE PLC (Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston)
- Julia Ward, UK Project Development director, Queequeg
- Saima Yasin, professor University of Engineering & Technology
- Tasneem Yousif, PhD researcher and assistant lecturer, University of Nottingham
- Jun Zang, professor of Coastal and Ocean Engineering and deputy head of Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath
The Top 50 Women in Engineering are announced each year on International Women in Engineering Day (INWED). INWED was founded by WES and takes place annually on 23 June.
The WE50 awards programme was created in 2016 and aims to celebrate excellence in a broad range of engineering roles, raise awareness of women’s critical impact on the engineering landscape and encourage collaboration, innovation, and social impact by selecting winners aligned with annual themes.
