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| ProfessorSir David DaviesCBE FRS FREng FIEE FLSW | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1935-10-28) 28 October 1935 (age 89) Cardiff, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Engineering career | |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Employer(s) | Loughborough University |
| Awards | Knight Bachelor Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
Sir David Evan Naunton Davies (born 28 October 1935) is a British electrical engineer and educator, knighted for services to science and technology in the 1994 New Year Honours.
Career
- 1985–1988: Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), and holder of the Pender Chair, having already been lecturing there, in Communications Systems, for many years prior to that.
- 1986–1988: Vice-Provost of University College London
- 1988–1993: Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University
- 1993–1999: Chief Scientific Adviser for the Ministry of Defence
He has subsequently been Chairman of Railway Safety, a non-executive director of Lattice plc, a non-executive director of The ERA Foundation, Chairman of the Hazards Forum (2002-2010), and safety advisor to the Board of National Grid plc.
Voluntary roles
- 1994–1995: President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
- 1996–2001, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Awards and honours
- CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire),
- Knight Bachelor
- FREng (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering),
- FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society)
- Faraday Medal, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1987
- Received an honorary doctorate from University of Bath in 1997
- Received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1999
- FLSW (Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales), 2010
The Sir David Davies building at Loughborough University, housing the electrical engineering department, is now named after him.
References
- "Sir David Davies CBE FREng FRS". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1050. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- Sir David Davies, The ERA Foundation. Accessed 30 July 2010
- "Past Presidents - RAEng". Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- Former MoD adviser to study rail safety, BBC News, 7 October 1999
- "Honorary graduates, 1990 to 1999".
- "Honorary Graduates". Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- Wales, The Learned Society of. "David Davies". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- Swain, Harriet; Williams, Lynne (15 October 1999). "David (D. E. N.) Davies". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 30 November 2017.
| Academic offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byProfessor John Phillips | Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University 1988–1993 |
Succeeded byProfessor Sir David Wallace |
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Engineers from Cardiff
- Academics of University College London
- Chief Scientific Advisers to the Ministry of Defence
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- British electrical engineers
- Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Knights Bachelor
- People named in the Panama Papers
- Presidents of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Vice-chancellors of Loughborough University
- Masters of the Worshipful Company of Engineers
- Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales