Honorary Graduates 1996

Cllr Michael Craxton - 1996
Michael Craxton is a member of Hillingdon Borough Council and was Mayor of Hillingdon from May 1995 until May 1996. He has represented the Borough on a number of local and regional bodies, including the London Arts Board, the London Ecology Committee ... read full details

Dr Anastasios Christodoulou - 1996
Anastasios Christodoulou was Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities from October 1980 until May 1996. After graduating from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, he joined the overseas Civil Service and served as District Officer and later ... read full details

Dr Gordon Brown - 1996
Gordon Brown has been Member of Parliament for Dunfermline East since 1983. Before entering Parliament, he was a lecturer at Glasgow College of Technology and a journalist and current affairs editor for Scottish Television. He was Opposition Chief Secretary to the ... read full details

Dr Jane A Glover FRCM - 1996
Dr Jane Glover graduated from St Hugh's College, Oxford with a DPhil on 17th-century Venetian opera. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. Joining Glyndebourne in 1979, she was Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 ... read full details

Edmund Wallis - 1996
Edmund Wallis is Chief Executive of Powergen, a post he has held since 1988. He joined the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1955 and held a number of engineering appointments in coal, oil and nuclear-fired stations. He became Station Manager of Oldbury ... read full details

F W de Klerk - 1996
In 1978 Frederik Willem de Klerk was appointed a Minister in the South African government by Prime Minister Vorster. Under Prime Minister P W Botha, he held a succession of ministerial posts and in 1986 became leader of the House of Assembly. ... read full details

Glenys Kinnock - 1996
After starting her career as a teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools, Glenys Kinnock was elected to the European Parliament in 1994. She now represents Wales and is a Member of the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee. ... read full details

John Guest - 1996
John Guest was Managing Director and founder of John Guest Limited, the worlds' largest manufacturer of push-in and releasable tube couplings. The company was a corporate member of the Brunel Business Partnership from 1990 to 1994. He was a member of Brunel ... read full details

Patricia Mann OBE - 1996
Patricia Mann is a non-executive director of British Gas plc and Vice President International and Board Director of J Walter Thompson Co Ltd. Doctor of the University Brunel University College - November 1996 ... read full details

Professor Ivo Babuska - 1996
Professor Babuska is a Research Professor at the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin. He is a leading international authority on the mathematical analysis of finite element techniques. Professor Babuska was born and educated ... read full details

Professor John Kane - 1996
Professor Kane was Principal of the West London Institute of Higher Education from 1976 until February 1995, when the Institute was incorporated into Brunel University as Brunel University College. He began his career in education as a secondary school teacher in Liverpool ... read full details

Rev Peter Coterill - 1996
DUniv - June 1996 Awarded by London Bible College ... read full details

Robert Ayling - 1996
Robert Ayling is Chief Executive of British Airways, a role he assumed on 1 January 1996. After a spell as an equity partner in a City law firm, in 1973 he joined the Department of Trade, where, latterly, he became Under-Secretary (Legal). He ... read full details

The Rt Hon Anthony Wedgewood Benn PC MP - 1996
Tony Benn won his first seat as Labour candidate for Bristol South East in 1951. He served as Postmaster General in Harold Wilson's government in the 1960s and later became Minister of Technology and with it the responsibility for overseeing ... read full details

The Rt Hon The Baroness Thatcher - 1996
Lady Thatcher, now a member of the House of Lords, was Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. She was Shadow Minister for Transport from 1968 to 1969; Shadow Minister for Education from 1969 to 1970; Secretary of State for Education and Science from 1970 to 1974 and Leader ... read full details