Honorary Graduates 2001
Denise Kingsmill - 2001
Denise Kingsmill, Deputy Chair of the Competition Commission is a practitioner of the arcane art of competition law and policy. In that role she regularly chairs panels of Commission members who have to adjudicate on matters of great importance to ... read full details
Dr George Zahler - 2001
George Zahler was born in Germany and spent his childhood in Switzerland, where he started his education in Lausanne. At the age of 14 he came to England to learn English, and stayed. He subsequently studied at the Victoria University in ... read full details
Dr Michael Frye - 2001
Michael Frye was educated at Marlborough College, from where he went to become a university apprentice at a West German machine tool company. He then went to MIT where he gained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Management with ... read full details
James Cracknell - 2001
Pro-Chancellor, at 10.30 a.m. Australian time, on September 23rd 2000, James Cracknell entered the history books. The place, Sydney, the games, the millennium Olympics, the event, the coxless four. And despite the time difference, we were all there James. We were ... read full details
John Murphy - 2001
There can scarcely be a large organisation in the western world that has not considered its brand image. If the brand is not right, then executives these days set about 're-branding'- or bringing in consultants to advise them about ... read full details
Patricia Hodge - 2001
Chancellor. Once upon a time a little girl lived in a far away place - well, Lincolnshire, actually, but let's not spoil the story - and life was normal, if a bit dull. Then she was given piano lessons ... read full details
Professor Mary Douglas - 2001
Mary Douglas is probably the most distinguished active anthropologist in Europe and is a unique figure in British social anthropology. No other contemporary British anthropologist has so transcended the field to become a major figure in contemporary social theory. She ... read full details
Professor Ray Wild - 2001
Ray Wild was born in Derbyshire and, having left school without taking A levels, started his career by joining industry initially as an Apprentice Engineer, then as a Design Engineer, and then as a Research Engineer all at Crosley Brothers, ... read full details
Professor Richard Brook - 2001
Richard Brook graduated from the University of Leeds in 1962 with a first class degree in Ceramics. His graduation was only the first step in a long and distinguished career involving the chemistry and science of ceramics, which later led to ... read full details
Sir David Keene QC PC - 2001
The Royal Charter which empowers this University to award degrees also places upon it certain obligations. Just as the University is obliged to have a Vice-Chancellor, a Council, a Senate, and a Students' Union, so the Charter requires Brunel to ... read full details
Stan Davison OBE - 2001
Chancellor, During the period from the late nineteen fifties to the late nineteen eighties Stan Davison attained and retained a position of influence and status in the UK as a trade union leader. He was deputy to Clive Jenkins, one ... read full details
Zdenek Vostracky - 2001
Professor, Doctor, Engineer Zdenek Vostracky is the Rector - the chief academic and administrative officer - of the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic. His is a distinguished university, and he is a distinguished electrical engineer. Further, he ... read full details
