Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).
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Vilma Espín
One of the first women in Cuba to study chemical engineering, graduating from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois was mostly known as one of the leading Cuban revolutionaries, feminist, and wife of Raúl Castro.
Yeo Bee Yin
Malaysian chemical engineer and politician
Yomaira Pagán Torres
Puerto Rican chemical engineer
Zhenan Bao
As Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, she works mainly on organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors, for applications including flexible electronics.
Zinaida Yershova
Soviet chemical engineer, who worked in both industry and academia developing methods for the production of radioactive materials for the Soviet atomic bomb project and the space programme.
Zenaida Gonzales Gordon
Filipina chemical engineer
Zanele Madinane
South African engineer
Lidija Liepiņa
One of the first women to receive a doctorate in chemistry in the USSR
Aïssata Issoufou Mahamadou
She is thought to be one of the first Nigerien women to pursue a career in the sciences and headed the mineralogy division of SOMAIR, the national mining company of Niger. She is the first wife of former President Mahamadou Issoufou (‘First Lady’ 2011-21) and has used her influence to improve access to health care in her country.