Dawn Bonfield MBE FREng

Director, Towards Vision; Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, King’s College London; Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Inclusive Engineering, Aston University  

Dawn Bonfield MBE has an international reputation as an inspirational leader, championing diversity and inclusion, ethics, and sustainable development in engineering. As a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at King’s College London, and a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at Aston University, she is an influential advocate for change, and has developed an emerging discipline of inclusive engineering, which limits bias and discrimination in our engineering outputs, and uses engineering and technology to address inequality. She runs her own company, Towards Vision, to deliver change in both the education and corporate sectors. An aerospace materials engineer originally, she is former President and CEO of the Women’s Engineering Society