Trudy Morgan

Trudy Morgan
Trudy Morgan
Born	1966 (age 57–58); Liverpool, England, UK

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.

Early life

Born 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

In 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

^ ^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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[:0-1] 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.

[Goba-2] Goba, Kadia (3 October 2018). "Sierra Leone: Women of the Mountain". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 22 July 2024.

[3] "About – Sierra Leone Women Engineers". Retrieved 2019-10-22.

[4] "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.

[5] 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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