The 50 most influential women in UK IT 2015

Professor Liz Bacon is immediate past president of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and a deputy pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Greenwich in London, with a university wide remit leading the development of technology enhanced learning. She is a past chair of the BCS Academy of Computing, and the CPHC (Council of Professors and Heads of Computing) national committee. She is a professor of software engineering with over a hundred publications and a co-director of the eCentre research group. Bacon is passionate about the development of the discipline and keen to inspire more people to choose computing as a career, particularly women.