Trudy Morgan Explained

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.^[4] From 2020 to 2024, she served two terms as president of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers.^[5]

External links

• Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE)
• Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers

Notes and References

1. Web site: 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. . https://web.archive.org/web/20191022175934/https://swenga.org/technology-and-science/women-in-stem-trudy-morgan-the-first-african-woman-fellow-of-the-institution-of-civil-engineers-of-the-uk-29 . 22 October 2019 . 2019-10-22 . Swenga . en-US.
2. News: Goba . Kadia . Sierra Leone: Women of the Mountain . 22 July 2024 . Pacific Standard . 3 October 2018.
3. Web site: About – Sierra Leone Women Engineers. en-US. 2019-10-22.
4. Web site: Sierra Leone's Trudy Morgan Makes History by Becoming the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE) 1st Female Fellow in Africa. insightmedia. en. 2019-10-22.
5. Web site: Thomas . Abdul Rashid . 2024-06-26 . Ing. Trudy Morgan: A leader who transformed Sierra Leone’s engineering landscape . 2024-07-22 . The Sierra Leone Telegraph . en-US.