rachel susan skinner (née bass) (born december 1976) is a british civil engineer with canadian-based consultant wsp global. named as one of the "daily telegraph" top 50 influential women in engineering in 2016 and as the most distinguished winner of 2017 at the european women in construction and engineering awards, she is set to become the youngest ever president of the institution of civil engineers in 2020. in 2019 she was elected as a fellow of the royal academy of engineering (freng).