{{short description|Sierra Leonean civil engineer}} {{Infobox person | name = Trudy Morgan | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}} | birth_place = Liverpool, England, UK | death_date = | death_place = | education = }} '''Trudy Morgan''' (born 1966) is a civil engineer of Sierra Leone heritage. She is the first African woman to be awarded a fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), and, after becoming the first female vice president of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers, served two terms as president.
== Early life == Born to Sierra Leone Creole parents in Liverpool, United Kingdom, Morgan and her family moved back to Sierra Leone where she studied civil engineering<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kanyanga Kamwi |first=Ruth |date=18 April 2019 |title=Women In Stem: Trudy Morgan, the first African Woman fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers of the UK. |url=https://www.swenga.org/technology-and-science/women-in-stem-trudy-morgan-the-first-african-woman-fellow-of-the-institution-of-civil-engineers-of-the-uk-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022175934/https://swenga.org/technology-and-science/women-in-stem-trudy-morgan-the-first-african-woman-fellow-of-the-institution-of-civil-engineers-of-the-uk-29 |archive-date=22 October 2019 |access-date=2019-10-22 |website=Swenga |language=en-US}}</ref> at the University of Sierra Leone before earning an MBA at Cranfield School of Management.<ref name=Goba>{{cite news |last1=Goba |first1=Kadia |title=Sierra Leone: Women of the Mountain |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/sierra-leone-women-mountain |access-date=22 July 2024 |work=Pacific Standard |date=3 October 2018}}</ref>
== Career == In 2015, Morgan co-founded the non-profit Sierra Leone Women Engineers, to support women in engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slwe.org.sl/about/|title=About – Sierra Leone Women Engineers|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref> In 2018, Morgan supported a United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) project to stabilise the slopes of Sugar Loaf mountain, near Regent six miles from Freetown, following the 2017 Sierra Leone mudslides.<ref name=Goba/>
Morgan is also the program director for Hilton Freetown Cape Sierra Hotel, a member of the Professional Engineers Review Council and the UK's Institution of Civil Engineers international representative to Sierra Leone.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insight.sl/single-post/2018/12/27/SIERRA-LEONE%E2%80%99S-TRUDY-MORGAN-MAKES-HISTORY-BY-BECOMING-THE-INSTITUTION-OF-CIVIL-ENGINEERS%E2%80%99-ICE-1ST-FEMALE-FELLOW-IN-AFRICA|title=Sierra Leone's Trudy Morgan Makes History by Becoming the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE) 1st Female Fellow in Africa|website=insightmedia|language=en|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref> From 2020 to 2024, she served two terms as president of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Abdul Rashid |date=2024-06-26 |title=Ing. Trudy Morgan: A leader who transformed Sierra Leone’s engineering landscape |url=https://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/ing-trudy-morgan-a-leader-who-transformed-sierra-leones-engineering-landscape/ |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=The Sierra Leone Telegraph |language=en-US}}</ref>
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== External links == *[https://www.ice.org.uk/my-ice/my-membership/fellowship Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE)] *[http://slie-sl.org/?page_id=874 Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers]
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