Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon, MBE, is one of the most influential women in the UK’s tech industry. At only 10 years old, she obtained GCSEs in math and computing. By age 11, she had completed her A-levels, and at age 13, she had won a scholarship to study at John Hopkins University in Maryland, USA. Imafidon obtained a master’s degree in mathematics and computing science from the University of Oxford. Consequently, she co-founded Stemettes, a social enterprise aimed at promoting women in science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM), in 2013.
Imafidon co-hosted a special episode of Channel 4’s Countdown: Black to Front Day campaign as an arithmetician. The campaign aimed to improve black representation on television. She was recognised as one of the BBC’s 100 women of 2017 and received a Suffrage Science award from the London Institute of Medical Sciences in 2002. She is an honorary fellow at Keble College, Oxford. Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon became the 2022–2023, President of the British Science Association.
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