On the 8th March 2021 to celebrate International Women’s day, Global Engineering Futures will be hosting an international event led by female leaders across the world who are championing sustainable development including for full representation of women in engineering, and wider society.

Paola Saenz is a PhD student at Imperial College London within the Surfaces and Particle Engineering Laboratory. Her award-winning research won her a place in the top 17 of a Global Engineering Futures competition in collaboration with WFEO. Global Engineering Futures sat down with Paola to discuss her journey as a young female engineer coming from a developing country to the UK.

Georgina Baker, 22, has recently made history by graduating with a Masters Degree in Chemical and Nuclear Engineering from the University of Leeds, becoming the first black woman to do so. We had an exclusive interview with Georgina to discuss her story, achievements, and future.