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Wahid Azizi is a Programme Manager at the Royal Academy of Engineering, managing the Engineering X ‘Engineering Skills where they are Most Needed (ESMN)’ programme.
Wahid started on ESMN when it launched in 2019 and has developed and managed programme activities including gathering evidence and insight to identify global skills for safety gaps, launching grant schemes for engineering safety skills projects, and designing a safety skills in engineering education fellowship programme. Wahid also managed the development of the Global Engineering Capability Review 2019 – the first output of Engineering X – that showed the breadth and diversity of engineering strengths and weaknesses around the world, and ranked 99 countries according to 6 categories of engineering capability.
Prior to joining the Royal Academy of Engineering, Wahid, an engineer by training, worked as an advisor/manger managing humanitarian, post conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction, and development projects and programmes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He manged lifesaving projects in refugee camps in Peshawar in addition to managing a national rural roads programme in Afghanistan. He holds MBA from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, and MSc. Chemical Engineering, from Kabul Polytechnic University, Afghanistan. Wahid is a multi-talented engineer who was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and attended a one year Urban and Regional Development Studies fellowship programme at MIT, USA. In addition, he was awarded a two-year scholarship by UNITAR/Japan including a one-year fellowship programme in project management, strategic planning, and leadership, and during the second year, Wahid had the honour of coaching new UNITAR fellows in their projects.
Wahid is an enthusiastic engineer and development professional with twenty years of experience dedicated to making the world a better and safer place to live and to connecting with professionals with the same goal.
We are honored to announce that our Rising to the Top book series has added TWO new volumes!
Rising to the Top provides an intimate and inspiring look into the experiences that have shaped the lives and careers of women engineering leaders from around the world. By openly sharing their personal journeys in these pages, the authors hope to not only inspire the next generation of engineering leaders, but also provide valuable insight into the challenges facing women engineers around the world, and the opportunities that are theirs for the taking.
