Dr Carol Marsh is Deputy Head of Electronics at Leonardo and has worked in the field of
electronics for over 35 years, specialising in programmable logic.
Carol graduated with an HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Edinburgh Napier
University in 1985 and was awarded a degree of Doctor of Engineering in System Level
Integration from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Heriot Watt and Strathclyde in
2011.
She is the Past President of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and currently the Chair
of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Council and Chair of the Engineering
Policy Group Scotland. She is also a Hammermen of Edinburgh, a Burgess of the City of
Edinburgh, a STEM Ambassador and the proud mother of 2 boys.
A winner of several technology and diversity awards, in 2020 Carol was awarded an OBE for
Diversity and Inclusion in Electronic Engineering.