At its AGM on 20 September 2022 the Royal Academy of Engineering elected 72 leading figures in the field of engineering and technology to its Fellowship. The group consists of 60 Fellows, seven International Fellows and five Honorary Fellows, each of whom has made exceptional contributions to their own sector, pioneering new innovations, leading progress in business or academia, providing high level advice to government, or promoting wider understanding of engineering and technology.
This year’s new Fellows reflect the Academy’s ongoing Fellowship Fit for the Future initiative announced in July 2020, to drive more nominations of outstanding engineers from underrepresented groups ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2026. This initiative sees the Academy striving for increased representation from women, disabled and LGBTQ+ engineers, those from minority ethnic backgrounds, non-traditional education pathways and emerging industries, and those who have achieved excellence at an earlier career stage than normal.
The new Fellows will be formally admitted to the Academy at a special ceremony in London on 8 November, when each Fellow will sign the roll book. In joining the Fellowship, they will add their unique capabilities to the Academy’s mission to harness the power of engineering to create a sustainable society and an inclusive economy for all.
Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, says:
“I am delighted to welcome such an array of enormously talented people to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. From industry and enterprise to education and government – both national and international – these are some of our most pioneering and distinguished engineers and technologists.
“In an uncertain world, one thing is certain – engineering skills, vision and leadership will play a crucial part in addressing the escalating domestic and global challenges that we face today. The combined connectivity, professionalism, experience and wisdom of the new Fellows who join us today will greatly enrich the expertise and support we can provide to the government and to society in general.”
The complete list of Fellows elected in 2022 is as follows:
Fellows (FREng)
- Professor Daniel Alexander Professor of Imaging Science, Department of Computer Science, UCL; Co-Founder of Queen Square Analytics
- Adrian Baguley Deputy Chief Executive, Defence Equipment & Support, Ministry of Defence
- Dawn Bonfield MBE Director, Towards Vision; Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, King’s College London; Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Inclusive Engineering, Aston University
- Simon Bowen Nuclear Industry Advisor to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for BEIS
- Professor Ian Chapman CEO, UK Atomic Energy Authority
- Professor Manish Chhowalla Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge
- Professor Peter Vivian Coveney Professor of Physical Chemistry, UCL
- Stuart Crooks CBE Managing Director, Hinkley Point C
- Kevin Daffey Director of Governmental Application Engineering and Automation, Rolls-Royce Solutions
- Professor Steve Dixon Professor and Director of the Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics, University of Warwick
- Professor Hongbiao Dong Professor of Materials Engineering and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair, University of Leicester
- Professor Suzanne Farid Professor of Bioprocess Systems Engineering, UCL
- Stephen Featherstone Managing Director, Sachle Consultants Ltd; Chair, Fish Plate Joint Alliance; Non-Executive Director, CC Infrastructure Services
- Professor Sebastian Geiger FRSE Professor for Sustainable Geoenergy, Delft University of Technology
- Kuldeep Gharatya Head of Engineering, Major Programmes Directorate, TfL
- Professor Mark Girolami FRSE Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Cambridge; Chief Scientist, Alan Turing Institute
- Professor Susan Gourvenec Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technology, Intelligent and Resilient Ocean Engineering, University of Southampton
- Antony Green Hydrogen Director, National Grid
- Professor Sai Gu Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (China), University of Warwick
- Michael Haigh Chair of the World Economic Forum Infrastructure Industries Governors and the former Executive Chair of Mott MacDonald
- Professor Christopher Hancock FLSW CTO and Founder, Creo Medical Group plc; Chair in Medical Microwave Systems Research, Bangor University
- Dr Grahaeme Henderson OBE Chair, ‘Together in Safety' Global Shipping Industry Foundation
- Graham Henley Senior Vice President Engineering and Projects Capability, Shell
- Professor Nicholas Higham FRS Richardson Professor of Applied Maths and Royal Society Research Professor, University of Manchester
- Professor David Hills Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
- Brian Holliday Managing Director, Siemens Digital Industries UK
- David Holmes OBE Advanced Projects, Technology and Manufacturing Director, BAE Systems Air
- Professor Brian Hoyle Professor (part-time), University of Leeds
- Professor Bassam Izzuddin Professor of Computational Structural Mechanics, Imperial College London
- Koray Kavukcuoglu VP of Research & Technology, DeepMind
- Professor Kin K Leung Tanaka Chair in Internet Technology, Imperial College London.
- Luke Logan Director, Luke Logan Consulting Ltd
- Wolf Mangelsdorf Director, Global Head of Design, Technology and Innovation, Buro Happold
- Professor Epaminondas Mastorakos Hopkinson/ICI Professorship of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge
- Professor David Mba Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise), UAL
- Professor Derek McAuley Professor of Digital Economy, University of Nottingham
- Chris McDonald Chief Executive Officer, Materials Processing Institute
- Professor Iqbal Mujtaba Professor of Computational Process Engineering, Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching & Quality, University of Bradford
- Professor Arokia Nathan Co-founder and Director, Cambridge Touch Technologies
- Professor Conchúr Ó Brádaigh Head of School and Chair of Materials Engineering, University of Edinburgh
- Christine Ourmieres-Widener Chief Executive Officer, TAP Air Portugal
- Dr Yoge Patel Chief Executive Officer and Owner, Blue Bear Group
- Professor Adrian Podoleanu Head of the Applied Optics Group, Professor of Biomedical Optics, University of Kent
- Professor Honor Powrie Senior Director, GE Aviation
- Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon Deputy Vice Chancellor University of Wales Trinity Saint David
- Robert Savidge Consultant
- Moazzam Shamsi Global Director, Solutions Architecture, Emerson
- Professor Qiang Shen FLSW Professor of Computer Science and PVC, Aberystwyth University
- Gaven Smith Director General for Technology, GCHQ
- Dr Uwe Stein Director and Chief Engineer, Flowcopter Ltd; Knocktop Ltd
- Professor Nikola Stosic Chair in Positive Displacement Compressor Technology, City, University of London
- Professor Danail Stoyanov Professor of Robot Vision, UCL
- Judith Sykes Senior Director, Expedition Engineering
- Professor James Roy Taylor FRS Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology, Imperial College London
- Professor Niki Trigoni Professor and Head of the Cyber Physical Systems, University of Oxford
- Professor Sergei Turitsyn Professor and Director of the Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University
- Alexander Van Someren UK Chief Scientific Advisor National Security; Honorary Professor, University of Manchester
- Henning von Spreckelsen Director, Plastecowood Ltd
- Chris Waldon Chief Engineer and Deputy Director, STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production)
- Professor Roger Woods Professor of Digital Systems, Queen's University Belfast
International Fellows (FREng)
- Rebecca Enonchong Founder and CEO, Appstech
- Professor Andrea Goldsmith Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Princeton University
- Professor Chennupati Jagadish Distinguished Professor, Australian National University
- Dr Kinam Kim Chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics
- Dr Mallikarjun Tatipamula CTO, Ericsson Silicon Valley
- Dr Grazia Vittadini Chief Technology and Strategy Officer of Rolls-Royce
- Professor Guangwen Xu President and Professor, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology
Honorary Fellows (HonFREng)
- Dr Nike Folayan MBE Chair and Co-Founder, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers UK (AFBE-UK); Technical Director, WSP
- Professor Hannah Fry Professor in the Mathematics of Cities, UCL; author and presenter
- Indro Mukerjee Chief Executive Officer, Innovate UK
- Damilola Ogunbiyi CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy
- Sir Patrick Vallance Kt KCB FRS FMedSci FRCP Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Notes for editors
- More information on Fellowship of the Academy, as well as the nomination and assessment process, is available in the Fellowship Prospectus. The Academy now has nearly 1700 Fellows in total, including International and Honorary Fellows.
- The Royal Academy of Engineering is harnessing the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together we’re working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.