Fellow

Royal Academy of Engineering

Biography

Dame Sue received the prestigious Dame Grand Cross award in the Platinum Jubilee Honours for services to engineering.

Sue’s background is in materials science/metallurgy. She gained a first class honours from Imperial College in 1976 and a PhD in 1979 before joining BNFL where she was Group Director of Technology 1992-2006. She holds Visiting or Honorary Professorships at a number of universities including Imperial College and the University of Manchester. She has represented the UK internationally on key committees overseeing the nuclear sector for over 3 decades.

She is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society where she chairs or is a member of a number of subcommittees.

She was Chair of the Nuclear Innovation Advisory Board for the Government from 2015-2018 and is currently Hon-President of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear.