INVITATION AND FELLOWS ONLY
Important notice: The Awards Dinner is only open to Academy Fellows and invited guests, and we are therefore unable to offer any additional places. Thank you for your understanding.
The Awards Dinner is the most prestigious event in the Academy’s calendar and this year, we will be heading back to Leicester Square's stunning, sustainably designed and engineered hotel, The Londoner.
The highlight of the evening will be the announcement of the winner of the UK's premier prize for innovation in engineering - the MacRobert Award. The presentation of the Award recognises outstanding innovation coupled with tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success. Amol Rajan, journalist and broadcaster, will host the main proceedings and Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE HonFREng will deliver the keynote presentation.
Throughout the evening several other major Academy awards for achievements in engineering will be presented, including:
- The Princess Royal Silver Medals
- The Sir George Macfarlane Medal
- The President's Medal
- The Rooke Award for the public promotion of engineering
- Major Project Award for Sustainability
Who attends
- Leaders in UK engineering business, industry and academia
- Academy Fellows
- Medallists and Awardees
Dress Code
Black tie, cocktail dress and decorations.
Photography and filming notice
Please note that photography and filming will take place during this event. All photographs and videos will be securely stored on the Academy’s servers and used for editorial, marketing and media use by the Academy and selected press or industry media. Please let us know if you do not agree to this processing. Please refer to our General Privacy Policy for more details.
Venue and accessibility
It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team more than one week in advance of this event so that necessary arrangements can be made. Please do also contact the events team for hotel recommendations, at [email protected].
Cancellations
All cancellation requests must be received in writing via email to the events team at [email protected]. A request for cancellation (and refund) will be accepted up to the deadline 25 June 2025. Royal Academy of Engineering must make commitments to suppliers at that time and making changes will result in additional costs or penalties. If the cancellation request is received after the deadline, we cannot issue a refund and would recommend a substitution to attend in your place. A written notification of a substitution will be accepted by email up to the morning of the event.
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Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE HonFREng
Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE HonFREng is a British entrepreneur and crossbench member of the House of Lords. She is currently President of the British Chambers of Commerce and Chancellor of the Open University. She is a non-executive director at British Airways, Chanel, and Multiverse. Until its sale last summer she chaired WeTransfer. She co-founded and chairs Lucky Voice, a karaoke chain. Martha founded the Doteveryone 2015 -20 and the grant-making trust Antigone 2009 -2012. She was uk digital Champion 2009 to 2013 and helped create the Government digital service that launched gov.uk in 2010. She co-founded last minute.com in 1998. Her work focuses on digitisation, diversity, ethical technology, and widening access to education and digital skills in both business and public policy.
Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan is a presenter on Radio 4’s Today programme, and the host of University Challenge. He previously was the BBC’s first Media Editor covering the impact of the rapidly changing media landscape on politics, business, and culture. He was the youngest Editor of a broadsheet newspaper in Britain and the first from an ethnic minority in more than a century when he was appointed by The Independent at the age of twenty-nine. Amol got his break into television on The Wright Stuff on Channel 5, before joining The Independent and filling a variety of roles as news reporter, sports correspondent, columnist, comment editor, and Editor-at-Large as the paper transformed from a printed paper to a digital only product. Amol joined the BBC as its first ever Media Editor leading its journalism on media and technology globally.