Helen Stone

Helen Stone is an English civil engineer who has been managing director of WS Atkins Structural Engineering, which she joined in 1972.

Early life and education Helen Elizabeth Stone was born in February 1950.

She attended the North London Collegiate School and was inspired to become a civil engineer through, in her own words, "a trip up the newly-opened M1 motorway when I was 10." She studied civil engineering at the University of Birmingham, obtained chartered status, and in 2002 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is known for representing British engineering overseas, she shared her experience and asserted that in a wide range of countries, women were not being promoted to senior positions in engineering to the same extent as men. She chaired the Diversity Panel of the Construction Industry Council,

She chaired the Ethics and Standards Board of the APM Group, an accreditation group.

She has been a director of several organisations including the London Hostels Association and the North London Collegiate School.