Hilary joined EngineeringUK as CEO in January 2019 and leads the organisation in its ambition to inform and inspire young people to grow the number and diversity of those coming into engineering.

Before that, she was Head of Education and Learning at Wellcome, building a team to improve science education through research, advocacy, funding and interventions.

Hilary has also been Assistant Director at Campaign for Science & Engineering working on a breadth of policy issues and an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Molecular and Behavioural Neuroscience, Rutgers. She is a governor of a 5-16 comprehensive school.