Faye Banks

Faye Banks is a British engineer, visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Engineering, former apprentice of Wakefield College, an Open University alumna and a Sheffield Hallam University Doctor of Business Administration graduate.

Banks won the UK Young Woman of the Year in 2004, National Higher Educational Gold Award in 2005, became the youngest fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology's (IET) in 2015 and was featured in the Telegraph's Top 50 UK Female Engineers in 2016.

Early life and education Banks grew up in Barnsley (England) in a family of four girls and after a turbulent childhood was taken into care in aged nine, spending five years living in children's homes and with several different foster families.

After leaving school at 16 with no formal qualifications, Banks started living in their own council flat and claiming for job seekers allowance before securing a low skilled manual job in a manufacturing plant packing meat into containers. and a Sheffield Hallam University Doctor of Business Administration graduate.

Additionally, Banks represented the UK Energy Policy Committee with the Institute of Engineering and Technology

2005 National Higher Educational Gold Award

2015 Institute of Engineering and Technology's (IET) Youngest Fellow

2016 Telegraph's Top 50 UK Female Engineers feature