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Anna Tompsett

Anna Tompsett is a first-year student in the Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development. She graduated with a first class M.Eng. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 2004, and completed an M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge in 2007.

Anna has consultancy experience in the UK in both water and structural engineering. Her overseas experience includes a year teaching high school Math and Physics in Uganda, and a year as an Engineers Without Borders UK volunteer, working on rural infrastructure projects in the Dadiya tribal lands of Gombe State, Nigeria, as well as involvement in improved-earthquake resistance adobe construction projects in El Salvador.