The presentation starts with an introduction to the Royal Academy of Engineering, including our strategic goals for 2020-2025: Engineering for a sustainable society and inclusive economy. This is followed by a brief overview of the Academy programmes in the UK and globally, to give the audience a sense of the wide range of areas the Academy is working.
This ranges from supporting engineering innovators who are commercialising social impact driven startups, to funding researchers working on cutting edge engineering solutions to UK and global challenges to supporting government in making policy decisions related to engineering, to supporting engineering organisations to adopt more inclusive cultures.
both IFEES and the Academy share common goals of enhancing engineering education, this presentation will focus more on Academy’s global skills and education programmes and policy work, including how we are supporting engineers to embed safety skills education programmes and working to inspire the next generation of engineers.
Tow academy colleagues, Shane McHugh (Head of International Partnerships) and Cordelia Burch (Senior Manager, Engineering X) will join after the presentation for Q&A session.
Presenter
Wahid Azizi is a Programme Manager at the Royal Academy of Engineering, managing the Engineering X ‘Engineering Skills where they are Most Needed (ESMN)’ programme. Wahid started on ESMN when it launched in 2019 and has developed and managed programme activities including gathering evidence and insight to identify global skills for safety gaps, launching grant schemes for engineering safety skills projects, and designing a safety skills in engineering education fellowship programme. Wahid also managed the development of the Global Engineering Capability Review 2019 – the first output of Engineering X – that showed the breadth and diversity of engineering strengths and weaknesses around the world, and ranked 99 countries according to 6 categories of engineering capability. Prior to joining the Royal Academy of Engineering, Wahid, an engineer by training, worked as an advisor/manger managing humanitarian, post conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction, and development projects and programmes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He manged lifesaving projects in refugee camps in Peshawar in addition to managing a national rural roads programme in Afghanistan. He holds MBA from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, and MSc. Chemical Engineering, from Kabul Polytechnic University, Afghanistan. Wahid is a multi-talented engineer who was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and attended a one year Urban and Regional Development Studies fellowship programme at MIT, USA. In addition, he was awarded a two-year scholarship by UNITAR/Japan including a one-year fellowship programme in project management, strategic planning, and leadership, and during the second year, Wahid had the honour of coaching new UNITAR fellows in their projects. Wahid is an enthusiastic engineer and development professional with twenty years of experience dedicated to making the world a better and safer place to live and to connecting with professionals with the same goal.