(AGENPARL) – MANCHESTER lun 19 giugno 2023

The King’s Birthday Honours was revealed last week for 2023, with University academics once again featuring in the prestigious list. Congratulations to all our staff!

Diane Coyle, a Professor of economics here at Manchester from 2014 to 2018, has been awarded a DBE. A former advisor to the UK Treasury, vice-chairman of the BBC Trust and member of the UK Competition Commission, Diane is now Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, co-directing the Bennett Institute. 

Ian Greer, Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medical and Health until 2018, has received the honour of Knight Bachelor. Ian, now President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, has extensive experience of university innovation driving regional economic growth, including cross-sector developments such as the Northern Health Science Alliance, a collaboration of eight Universities and NHS partners, and is the cofounder of the Health Innovation Research Alliance for NI.

Andy Haldane, Honorary Professor at our Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), has been awarded an OBE. A former Chief Economist at the Bank of England, he’s now chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts and sits on the UK’s government’s Economic Advisory Council. 

Chris Oglesby, Executive Chair of Bruntwood SciTech, our partner in the £1.7bn innovation district ID Manchester, has been awarded an OBE. 

Helen Marshall, President and Vice-Chancellor of Salford University and University partner on projects such as the IntoUniversity widening participation project at The Beacon Centre, has been awarded an OBE. 

And finally, Martin Amis, the Univeristy’s former Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing, who died last month at the age of 73, has been honoured with a posthumous knighthood.

Fonte/Source: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/kings-birthday-honours-for-university-staff/