Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering

In 2016 the Women's Engineering Society (WES), in collaboration with the Daily Telegraph, produced an inaugural list of the United Kingdom's Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering, which was published on National Women in Engineering Day on 23 June 2016. The event was so successful it became an annual celebration. The list was instigated by Dawn Bonfield MBE, then Chief Executive of the Women's Engineering Society. In 2019, WES ended its collaboration with the Daily Telegraph and started a new collaboration with The Guardian newspaper.

Since 2016 a new theme has been used each year to showcase the variety of roles within the engineering industry and champion even more women engineers. The themes have been as follows:

• 2023: Safety and Security
• 2022: Inventors and Innovators
• 2021: Engineering Heroes
• 2020: Sustainability
• 2019: Apprentices and Former Apprentices
• 2018: Returners and Transferrers
• 2017: Most Influential Women in Engineering Under 35
• 2016: Most Influential Women in Engineering