[2] As she grew up she played with Meccano and she decided as a teenager to drop humanities so she could concentrate on maths, physics, chemistry and languages.

[3] Her qualifications gained her a place at Loughborough University of Technology where she graduated with a first class honours degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

[4] After Loughborough she joined the General Electric Company where she began work designing semi conductors.

She remembers the joy as the chip they had designed was manufactured and was then soldered to a printed circuit board.

[6] She was co-chair[7] and led a team looking at the opportunities created by the exploitation of Big Data to improve the UN's delivery of the 2030 sustainable development goals.