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Marianne Jaskiewicz
Senior Manager, Awardee Excellence Community
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Cerys Sharples
Community Manager, Awardee Excellence Community
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Ayo Okoya
Programme Officer, Awards and Awardee Excellence Community
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Jonathan Seal
Digital Community Manager
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Reference Group
The Awardee Excellence Community Reference Group supports our vision to build a powerful, vibrant, connected and diverse community of engineering leaders, who support and inspire each other, and who work with the Academy to change the world for the better. Consisting of Community members, they sit three times a year and provide steering on Community activities including events and other ways to bring members together.
Meet our current Reference Group members, below.
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Rachael Andrews
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Lorna Bennet
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Professor Ana Cavalcanti
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Dr Melanie Jimenez
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Dr James Kusena
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Ben Pritchard
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About the Community
A powerful, vibrant, connected and diverse community of engineering leaders, who support and inspire each other, and who work with the Academy to change the world for the better.
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