Trudy Morgan
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| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) 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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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]
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