Yasmin Ali is a chartered chemical engineer, passionate about the future of energy. She studied chemical engineering at the University of Nottingham before starting her engineering career at E.ON.
Yasmin worked in conventional power generation as well as oil and gas exploration, production projects and operations. She now works as an Energy Innovation Project Manager for the UK Government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), supporting technical solutions to reduce the UK's greenhouse gas emissions. Yasmin is an avid promoter of engineering, regularly visiting schools, presenting at events, and writing for mainstream media about the achievements of engineers. Yasmin was awarded the Women's Engineering Society Young Woman Engineer 2013, and was shortlisted for a number of science and engineering awards. In 2020, she was listed as one of the WES top 50 women engineers in sustainability.
Her talk about the role of women and future directions of chemical engineering will take place on 26th March 2021 at 10:30am GMT.