Professor Dame Ann Dowling DBE

Biography

Professor Dame Ann Dowling was a non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) from 2016 to 2018.

Ann is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where she was Head of the Department of Engineering from 2009 to 2014. She ran the University Gas Turbine Partnership with Rolls-Royce from 2001 to 2014.

Ann is a non-executive director of BP. She has served on a number of industry and government advisory committees and chaired the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering study on nanotechnology.

She was awarded a CBE for services to mechanical engineering in 2002, and a DBE for services to science in 2007.