Dawn Bonfield MBE is a materials engineer by background, but has worked in the area of Engineering Inclusion for a number of years, as the Chief Executive of the Women’s Engineering Society, and most recently as the Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Inclusive Engineering at Aston University, where she is also Director of Engineering Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

She has her own company, Towards Vision, which works to pursue a vision of diversity and inclusion in the engineering sector and is the UK representative of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations Women in Engineering Committee, working on the Sustainable Development Goals from a gender perspective.