Winners 2020

Bagnall moved back to JLR’s Gaydon HQ early this year following a three-year assignment in China where she led the engineering activity focusing on ACES technologies. She now oversees new vehicle programme quality, a key position as JLR looks to match and beat rivals on key metrics such as reliability and customer satisfaction. Bagnall was born in Coventry and followed her parents into the engineering industry, first at Austin Rover before moving to Land Rover in 1992. She specialised in body engineering, delivering the aluminium-based Range Rover and Range Rover Sport, and then was made overall engineering head for the Evoque in 2015 – JLR’s first female chief engineer at that time. She actively promotes engineering and STEM subjects, both internally at JLR and externally.