List of female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering

The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), founded in 1976, is the youngest of the five national academies in the UK. The RAEng represents the nation’s best practising engineers, innovators and entrepreneurs, who are very often in leading roles in industry, business and academia. Fellowship of the RAEng is a national honour, bringing prestige to both the individual and any organisation the Fellow is associated with. In recent years between 50 and 60 new Fellows have been chosen each year by peer review from nominations made by the current Fellowship;. Those proposed for Fellowship must come “from among eminent engineers regarded by virtue of their personal achievements in the field of engineering as being of exceptional merit and distinction”.

All 130 of the Founding Fellows in 1976 were men. Four women were elected in the first 20 years, the first in 1982. In all, 13 female Fellows pre-date 2000, with a further 23 elected before 2010. In 2010 the Council determined a policy that over time 10-20% of newly elected Fellows should be women.

The Academy currently has a diversity policy and staff appointed to pursue it, both within the institution and across the engineering profession.

As of 2016, 70 women have been elected to Fellowship, plus five International Fellows, two Honorary Fellows and one Royal Fellow. Female engineers make up 4% of the total current Fellowship.

International Fellows are engineers of international distinction who are not of British nationality and who are not resident and working in Britain. The number of International Fellows cannot exceed one-tenth of the number of Fellows, and no more than ten may be elected in any year.

Persons not being Fellows who have made or are making a distinguished contribution to the practice of engineering are eligible for election as Honorary Fellows. Their number cannot exceed fifty and no more than five may be elected in any year.

Royal Fellows are such members of the Royal Family as on the invitation of the Board shall agree to become Royal Fellows.

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