Angela Seeney is a British energy engineer and is Transformation Director at the nuclear decommissioning company Sellafield Ltd. [1] [2]
Angela Seeney is a British energy engineer and is Transformation Director at the nuclear decommissioning company Sellafield Ltd. [1] [2]
Seeney has a bachelor's degree from the University of Birmingham (1980),[ citation needed ] and a Ph.D. (1986) in Corrosion Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials also from Birmingham. [3]
Seeney worked for Shell for some years [4] before 2015 when she was appointed as Director, Technology and Projects of the Oil and Gas Authority, [5] and in 2016 was appointed to lead its Technology, Supply Chain and Data (TSD) directorate. [6]
She is now Transformation Director at Sellafield Ltd. [1] [2]
In 2016 Seeney was recognised as one of the UK's "Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering" by the Women's Engineering Society and The Telegraph . [4] [7]
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