Kirsten Bodley is the British current chief executive of the Institute of Asset Management[1] and former chief executive officer of the Women’s Engineering Society.[2]

Early life and education

Kirsten Bodley studied chemistry at King’s College before working as a senior group leader in Courtauld’s from September 1987 to July 1996. She then attended Imperial College, London and graduated with an MBA in innovation.

When employed in Courtauld's, Bodley worked as a development chemist where she developed products and supervised scale-ups in the plant. The main focus of her work was the food and beverage side of the canning industry.[3]

Career

KPMG hired Bodley as a principal management consultant in 1997 where she mainly focused on research and development in the fields of chemistry and pharmaceuticals before leaving them in 2002.[4]

Bodley then returned to education to get a PGCE in teaching before working as a primary school teacher in Claygate Primary School from 2004 to 2005.[3]

Bodley became a regional director in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network in 2005, the director of networks in 2008 and worked as the network’s CEO from 2010 to 2016. When working for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network, Bodley was involved in initiatives such as the Cisco STEM Challenge,[5] STEM Clubs and the STEM Ambassadors programme.[6]

In 2016 she became the chief executive of the Women's Engineering Society, taking over from Dawn Bonfield MBE.[7] Here she worked to introduce incentives in order to attract more women to the sector of Engineering.[8] This work mainly involved the 'Raising the Bar'[9] theme and 'Men as Allies'[10] theme.

As of August 2018 Bodley has worked as the chief executive of the Institute of Asset Management.[1]

Awards and accolades

References

  1. 1 2 "IAM appoints new Chief Executive after 25 Years" (PDF) (Press release). Bristol: Institute of Asset Management. 10 September 2018. pp. 1–2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. ↑ "WES Appoints New Chief Executive Officer - Women's Engineering Society". www.wes.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  3. ↑ "Q&A – Kirsten Bodley IOM3". www.iom3.org. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  4. ↑ "Meet the woman bringing diversity to the top of the engineering agenda". www.matchtech.com. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  5. ↑ "All Hallows Catholic High School wins Cisco STEM Challenge". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  6. ↑ "Link for the future". www.eurekamagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  7. ↑ "Departure of Women's Engineering Society Chief Executive Dawn Bonfield MBE". www.matchtech.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  8. ↑ Matthews, Virginia (2017-02-23). "Women engineers still face many barriers". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  9. ↑ "Why we need more female engineers". The Manufacturer. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  10. ↑ "International Women in Engineering Day hits the global stage". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  11. ↑ "Kirsten Bodley". epc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  12. ↑ "2017 winners". International Women in Engineering Day 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-10-08. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  13. ↑ WES1919. "Kirsten Bodley". Impakter. Retrieved 2019-10-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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