Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Professor Julia King, is one of the British women engineers who have reached the top of their profession and are now influential on many fronts. Her achievements have been recognised by many awards, including her elevation to the House of Lords as a Cross Bench life peer. She is particularly well known for her work on climate change and she chairs the UK Climate Change Committee’s Adaptation sub-committee, is chair of the Carbon Trust, and acts as the UK’s Low Carbon Business Ambassador.