Honorary Graduates 2006

Andrew Ives - 2006
As a Lucas CAV student apprentice in the 1960s, Andrew Ives attended the newly formed Brunel University in Acton, London as one of the first of the thin-sandwich degree students, alternating six months in industry and six months at college ... read full details

Jo Brand - 2006
View Press Release Jo Brand was brought up in Kent where she was educated at Benenden Primary School and Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Girls. Aged 15, after achieving 8 'O' Levels, she transferred to Hastings High School. After leaving school, Jo ... read full details

Peter Ackroyd - 2006
View the Press Release Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. He was educated at Saint Benedict's School in Ealing and then at Clare College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a double first in English. He was a ... read full details

Professor Gillian Moore - 2006
Gillian Moore combines the job of Artistic Director of the London Sinfonietta with playing a key role in audience development at the South Bank Centre in London. In 1983, Gillian Moore pioneered the role of orchestras in education by setting up ... read full details

Roger Bowden - 2006
Born in Hertfordshire and educated at St Albans Grammar School, Roger graduated in Engineering from Brunel University during its vibrant early years (1971) with a passion for design, quest to learn and desire to one day make things. Staying with his ... read full details

Ross Brawn - 2006
Ferrari Technical Director Ross Brawn received an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering for his services to motorsport at a fund-raising dinner in central London on Tuesday 24 January 2006, where Sir Frank Williams (Williams Grand Prix Racing) gave the welcome speech. ... read full details

Sir John Chisholm - 2006
Sir John Chisholm is chairman of QinetiQ. Between 1991 and 2005 Sir John held the position of Chief Executive Officer with QinetiQ and, prior to 2001, with the Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA). During this period he transformed what had been a government ... read full details

Sir Thomas Legg - 2006
Born in London in 1935, Tom Legg went to school at Horace Mann in New York and Frensham Heights in England. After National Service in the Royal Marines, he read history and law at St John's College, Cambridge. Called to ... read full details