Ibilola Amao

Ibilola is one of the six children born to a Nigerian highway engineer. She obtained her O levels from queens school, Ibadan, Nigeria and left for London where she acquired a first-class honors degree in civil and structural engineering from Queen Mary college, University of London. Afterwards, she got a PhD in computer-aided design and draughting from Bradford University, United Kingdom. After her PhD, she trained as a PPL engineer for three years. ==Career==

Upon return to Nigeria from England, Ibilola worked with university of Lagos as an associate lecturer with professor Ibidapo Obe. Then, she proceeded to a one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program during which she started and founded Lonadek in 1991. After her NYSC, she worked with National Engineering and Technical Company (NETCO) in 1992 where she trained the first 67 engineers recruited by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for NETCO. She left NETCO in 2003 to build Lonadek into a consultancy services company to cater for sustainable asset development and maintenance through qualitative local participation. Ibilola sat on the Lagos State Technical and Vocational Education Board as the chairperson of the industry advisory team. This afforded her the opportunity to work on bridging the gap between the industry and the academia, empowering students with industry sort skills through internship placement opportunities. ==Awards and nominations==

Ibilola was recognized with the Vital Voices (VV) 100 women in entrepreneurship award. In 2023, Ibilola becomes a fellow of the Queen Mary University of London, the fellowship was in acknowledgement for her dedication to developing STEM talents and mentoring of women. ==References==