Hayaatun is CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. She is a trustee of various charities, advisor to the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and NXD at construction company Laing O’Rourke. She previously cofounded the Academy’s Enterprise Hub, a leading deeptech accelerator, and co-chaired with Sir Lewis Hamilton his Commission on improving Black representation in motorsport. She has been named as one of the ‘Inspiring 50’ women in tech in Europe and one of the most influential women in UK engineering and tech.

She has a Masters in Biochemistry (MBiochem) from Oxford and a PhD from Cancer Research UK/UCL. She is a Fellow of the IET, Honorary Professor at UCL and Honorary Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford. She was made a CBE for services to International Engineering in 2019.