
Ayo Sokale
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Getting chartered and building a foundation of delivering incredible projects that made a positive difference to communities by reducing their risk of flooding. This allowed me the freedom to grow in other ways as a Cbeebies presenter on Get Set Galactic, as a supervising civil engineer supporting the development of graduates, as a coach and tech start up founder. I was inspired to become a civil engineer after witnessing engineering in developing nations, which resulted in transformed communities. As a young, impressionable person, I marvelled at things that, in more developed countries, we sometimes take for granted – like opening a tap and getting fresh water and being able to travel down the motorway. Observing first-hand how these feats of civil engineering improved society inspired me to pursue a career in the industry to shape the world around me.Ayo is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Professionally Qualified Project Manager with 6 years’ experience at the Environment Agency in options appraisal and business cases, managing team, budgets, programmes, supervising the construction of flood storage reservoirs and undertaking engineering design of flood defences.
Ayo is the Major Project and Programme Delivery (MPPD) Business Manager. MPPD is a part of the Environment Agency where we: safely lead and deliver transformative low carbon asset management, programmes, and projects, designed to protect, and enhance communities and the environment.
