When Anne Lillywhite was growing up, she had no idea that she wanted to be an engineer, but she gravitated towards maths and physics at school because she was good at them. “These subjects were easy for me because I found the logic reassuring. There were rules and theorems - every problem had a solution.”
"In today’s world, where things are so technical and becoming more and more complex, knowledge of science or maths, tech or engineering is the basis for tomorrow’s world"
This thirst for finding solutions to problems seems the very purpose of an engineer but while Lillywhite was growing up in her native France, there was a real lack of knowledge around what the discipline meant. “In France no one knows what an engineer does, you don’t even really realise it until you go to a technical university. Luckily for me, when I entered my engineering school I discovered electronics, which I found magical - you press a button and the light goes on! Magic.”