Top 24 for 2024

Yewande Akinola MBE


Engineer, Innovator, Consultant and Speaker

"For engineering to truly have impact, it needs to be diverse, and it needs to reflect the diverse community that we serve and so the world needs global majority engineers."

What is your greatest achievement in your career?


"My greatest achievement in my career is taking engineering principles to the workplace and using them for tangible societal impact, telling engineering stories, showing people the importance and the role engineering plays in everyday life."



Who or what inspires you in your work?


“I’m inspired by creativity, and by people who express creativity. I’m also inspired by women who have come before me who have worked to show that women can be engineers.”

Please provide one piece of advice for future global ethnic-majority engineers.


“The World needs you. For engineering to truly have impact, it needs to be diverse, and it needs to reflect the diverse community that we serve and so the world needs global majority engineers.”