Allyson Lawless is a South African structural engineer, businesswoman and an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.^[1][2] In the year 2000 she became the first female president of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE).^[1][3]

Lawless holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Natal and a Master of Science, DIC in Structural Engineering from Imperial College, London.^[1] She was made an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering on 5 November 2012.^[3]

Lawless created the Computer Aided Design software AllyCAD.^[4] AllyCAD is commonly used in her home country of South Africa. She is also the Managing Director of SAICE Professional Developments and Projects, a non-profit company created to address civil engineering skills development in South Africa.^[1] She has published two books; Numbers and Needs in 2005, and Numbers and Needs in Local Government in 2007.^[1][5]

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