Engineering Hero: Dame Stephanie Shirley (full)

Arriving in the UK as a child refugee, Dame Stephanie Shirley CH DBE FREng, was determined to lead a ‘life worth saving’. She turned an IT company founded on her living room table, into a multi-billion-pound company, and continues to share her expertise to transform the lives of others.
Entitled ‘Engineering heroes’ the films are the first in a new This is Engineering series made possible by a partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering, Amazon and Becoming X.