Faith Wainwright

Faith Helen Wainwright (born 1962) Wainwright was the 2018 President of the Institution of Structural Engineers and is the Editor-in-chief of Ingenia (the educational magazine of the Royal Academy of Engineering).

Education Wainwright attended Queen Anne's School. She was one of the first female graduates of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, whence in 1983 she took a BA in Engineering. and has served as the first-ever woman on the Joint Board of Moderators (the professional body which regulates accreditation of university degree programmes in Civil engineering). to assess the quality of University-based academic research in the UK.

Recognizing the importance of education and structural engineering, Wainwright established Arup University.

Awards In 2003, Wainwright was in the Arup team who won the International Information Industry Award recognizing their "innovation in knowledge management".

She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2003, and an Honorary DEng from Bath University in 2014.

She gave her inaugural address as President of the Institution of Structural Engineers on Thursday 11 January 2018.

Personal life Wainwright lives in Northwood, London.