Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Life Scientific.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

I'm Jim Alleili and my mission is to interview

the most fascinating and important scientists alive today and to find out what makes them tick.

There's something very cool about being an engineer,

a problem solver, an entrepreneur, says my guest today.

Naomi Clymer is one of the most senior British women engineers working in the communications

industry and in her career she's solved many problems.

After decades working on major projects she's left the world

of business to become the first female president of the institution of

engineering and technology, the IETT. As part of her presidency Naomi has launched a campaign called

Engineer a Better World to make us all realize that engineering is an exciting and

creative activity and in particular to attract and retain more women in the profession.

Naomi Klammer's most recent role was running Sony's media cloud services.

She was based in California where she says

engineers are treated like rock stars. It is after all the home of Silicon Valley.

She now wants British engineers to have higher status than they do today and for more of

them of course to be women.

Naomi Klimo welcome to the life scientific.

Thank you.

And of course when I say the life scientific I hope you understand I mean the life engineering as well

Excellent so why is it do you think that we don't properly appreciate engineers in this country

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