Chaido Doulala-Rigby (Yuli) | Women Leading in Business

Original Thinking Podcast

This month we will hear from Chaido Doulala-Rigby (Yuli), chair of ICE North West - Institution of Civil Engineers.

Yuli is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), a Fellow of the Permanent Way Institution, and a Fellow of the Institution of Royal Engineers. With over 25 years’ in Geotechnics, her work experience includes working as a Tunnelling Engineer for Balfour Beatty/AMEC JV at the Jubilee Line Extension Tunnelling project in London (1995), as a Geotechnical Engineer for Mouchel Asia Limited in Hong Kong (1996-2005) and as the Chief Civil Engineer for Tensar International, the inventor of polymeric soil reinforcing and soil stabilising geogrids (2005-present).

Yuli is the current (2021-2022) Chair of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for the Northwest region of the UK, a past Chair (2016-2018) of the UK Committee of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), an elected member of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) Executive Committee (2020-2023) and has authored and delivered several publications about reinforced and stabilised soil around the world. She is a regular judge for the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Engineering Awards in the NW of the UK, the UK Ground Engineering Awards and she is the coordinator and a judge of the Baroness Platt of Writtle Awards on behalf of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, of which she is a Liveryman and a Court Assistant. She is a registered STEM Ambassador and was a Governor of Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College until it closed in 2021. She is the first female Engineer in the Northwest of the UK to obtain Fellowship of the ICE in September 2011 and the first non-military Engineer, to become a Fellow of the Institution of Royal Engineers (FInstRE) in May 2018.

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