David Davies (electrical engineer)

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David Davies

Born (1935-10-28) 28 October 1935 (age 88)
Cardiff, Wales [1]
NationalityBritish
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 CBE FIEE FRS FREng DSc FLSW (born 28 October 1935) is a British electrical engineer and educator, knighted for services to science and technology in the 1994 New Year Honours. [2]

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Career

He has subsequently been Chairman of Railway Safety, a non-executive director of Lattice plc, a non-executive director of The ERA Foundation, [3] Chairman of the Hazards Forum (2002-2010), and safety advisor to the Board of National Grid plc.

Voluntary roles

Awards and honours

The Sir David Davies building at Loughborough University, housing the electrical engineering department, is now named after him.

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References

  1. "Sir David Davies CBE FREng FRS". Royal Academy of Engineering . Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  2. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1050. ISBN   0-9711966-2-1.
  3. Sir David Davies, The ERA Foundation. Accessed 30 July 2010
  4. "Past Presidents - RAEng". Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. Former MoD adviser to study rail safety, BBC News, 7 October 1999
  6. "Honorary graduates, 1990 to 1999".
  7. "Honorary Graduates". Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  8. Wales, The Learned Society of. "David Davies". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
Academic offices
Preceded by Vice-Chancellor of
Loughborough University

19881993
Succeeded by