Trudy Morgan (born 1966) is a civil engineer of Sierra Leone heritage. She is the first African woman to be awarded a fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), and, after becoming the first female vice president of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers, served two terms as president.
Trudy Morgan | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Liverpool, England, UK |
Early life
editBorn to Sierra Leone Creole parents in Liverpool, United Kingdom, Morgan and her family moved back to Sierra Leone where she studied civil engineering[1] at the University of Sierra Leone before earning an MBA at Cranfield School of Management.[2]
Career
editIn 2015, Morgan co-founded the non-profit Sierra Leone Women Engineers, to support women in engineering.[3] In 2018, Morgan supported a United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) project to stabilise the slopes of Sugar Loaf mountain, near Regent six miles from Freetown, following the 2017 Sierra Leone mudslides.[2]
Morgan is also the program director for Hilton Freetown Cape Sierra Hotel, a member of the Professional Engineers Review Council and the UK's Institution of Civil Engineers international representative to Sierra Leone.[1][4] From 2020 to 2024, she served two terms as president of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Kanyanga Kamwi, Ruth (18 April 2019). "Women In Stem: Trudy Morgan, the first African Woman fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers of the UK". Swenga. Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ a b Goba, Kadia (3 October 2018). "Sierra Leone: Women of the Mountain". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ "About – Sierra Leone Women Engineers". Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "Sierra Leone's Trudy Morgan Makes History by Becoming the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE) 1st Female Fellow in Africa". insightmedia. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ Thomas, Abdul Rashid (2024-06-26). "Ing. Trudy Morgan: A leader who transformed Sierra Leone's engineering landscape". The Sierra Leone Telegraph. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
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