The Middle East Consultant (MEC) editorial team has unveiled the partial shortlist of categories and nominees for the 2025 Women in Construction ED&I Summit + Awards. The MEC team added that the full shortlist will only be disclosed during the awards ceremony and in the post event announcement and report.
Both the summit and awards will take place at the Habtoor Grand Resort JBR, Dubai on 1 October 2025. The day begins with in-depth panel discussions, fireside chats and presentations, following which the ceremonial component will take place. The summit segment is expected to conclude at 3.30pm, with the awards ceremony due to kick off at 4.30pm.
“The 2025 edition of the Women in Construction ED&I Summit + Awards is poised to be an incredible day of discussion and a celebration of vision, talent and impact. The MEC team has been hard at work on the award’s segment of the day and is pleased to announce the partial shortlist of categories and their respective nominees,” said Paul Godfrey, Head of Content at Middle East Consultant.
“Due to the diversity of the nominations we received and to ensure a balanced judging process where entries could be fairly judged, we made the decision to merge and split certain categories, which is reflected in the shortlist below. I look forward to celebrating all the nominees and winners on 1 October,” Godfrey added.
The partial shortlist for the Women in Construction ED&I Summit + Awards is as follows:
Women’s Team-Building Champion of the Year
- GHD UAE, Jincy Mariam Rinu
- Trowers & Hamlins, Cheryl Cairns
Women’s Executive Empowerment Champion
- Dubai Holding Entertainment
- Godwin Austen Johnson, Christine Espinosa-Erlanda
- Serco, Samantha Rowles
Enterprise Champion of the Year – Female Leadership
- 9E Global Engineering Consultants, Arshana Fathima
- Climatize, part of +impact, Engi Jaber
- SharpMinds Consulting Engineers, Katherine Borge
Women’s Lobbying Champion of the Year
- HKA, Iryna Akulenka
- GHD UAE, April Martinez
Woman Lifetime Achievement Award
- GHD UAE, Stephanie Kinnick
- KEO, Donna Sultan
- Valcarce Architects, Alina Valcarce
Gender Empowerment Champion of the Year
- Dubai Holding Entertainment
- GHD UAE, Stephanie Kinnick
- McLaren Construction, Molatela Motsepe
Human Capital Manager of the Year
- AECOM
- McLaren Construction, Molatela Motsepe
Youth Mentoring Champion of the Year
- Godwin Austen Johnson, Esraa Abdellah
- KOJ INTERIORS, Amy Duck
- TBH, Emrah Uluverdi
Mentoring Champion of the Year
- AECOM, Asif Shafi
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Freeline Engineering Consultants, Ankita Rao
- Trowers & Hamlins, Cheryl Cairns
Workspace Inclusiveness Champion of the Year
- AECOM
- HKA, Amy Hunter
- McLaren Construction, Molatela Motsepe
ED&I Programme of the Year
- AECOM
- Godwin Austen Johnson
- LWK + Partners
- TBH
To learn more about the Women in Construction ED&I Summit + Awards, click here.