Growing up in poverty, Ursula Burns FREng, joined Xerox as an engineering intern in 1980, and worked her way up to becoming CEO in 2009. The First African American woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company, she remains an active campaigner for diversity in boardrooms today.

Entitled ‘Engineering heroes’ the films are the first in a new This is Engineering series made possible by a partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering, Amazon and Becoming X.