Cooper Hewitt,Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan,New York City,along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile. It is one of 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City,along with the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of American Art New York Research Center in the Flatiron District. Unlike other Smithsonian museums,Cooper Hewitt charges an admissions fee. It is the only museum in the United States devoted to historical and contemporary design. Its collections and exhibitions explore design aesthetic and creativity from throughout the United States' history.
William Grant Moggridge,RDI was an English designer,author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of Cooper Hewitt,Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. He was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design,and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline. Among his achievements,he designed the first laptop computer,the GRiD Compass,was honoured for Lifetime Achievement from the National Design Awards,and given the Prince Philip Designers Prize. He was quoted as saying,"If there is a simple,easy principle that binds everything I have done together,it is my interest in people and their relationship to things."
Sir Robert Alan Langlands FRSE FRCP (Hon.) FRCGP (Hon.) FRCS (Edin.) (Hon.) FRCPSG (Hon.) FFPH FCGI FIA is a former vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. He is notable for past service as the fourth chief executive of the National Health Service executive in England (1994–2000),as principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Dundee (2000–2009),and Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2009–2013).
Sir Rex Edward Richards was a British scientist and academic. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and as a director of the Leverhulme Trust.
Paul Gerard O'Prey is an academic leader and author who was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Roehampton,London from 2004 until 2019. In 2019 he was appointed chair of the Edward James Foundation,which owns a large rural estate in the South Downs and runs West Dean College of Arts and Conservation. After working in various senior roles at the University of Bristol,in 2004 O'Prey was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Roehampton in south-west London,where he was also Professor of Modern Literature.
Andrew SentanceCBE is a British business economist. He was a Senior Adviser to Cambridge Econometrics from October 2019 to September 2023. From November 2011 until October 2018,he was Senior Economic Adviser to PwC. He was an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England from October 2006 to May 2011 and is a former Chief Economist at British Airways and Director of Economic Affairs at the CBI.
Sir Nicholas David Coleridge,,DL is a British former media executive,author,and cultural chair. He is chairman of Historic Royal Palaces and a Fellow and Provost Designate of Eton. He is chairman of the Prince of Wales' Campaign for Wool since 2013. He has been chairman of the Victoria and Albert museum (2015–23) and was co-chair of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Pageant,a complex event with more than 10,000 military from the UK and Commonwealth,and performers from across the nation. He is an ambassador for the Landmark Trust and a patron of the Elephant Family.
Dianne Marie Willcocks CBE DL was the Vice-Chancellor of York St John University until retirement in April 2010 and is a former Deputy Principal of Sheffield Hallam University.
Sir John Irving Bell is a Canadian-British immunologist and geneticist. From 2006 to 2011,he was President of the United Kingdom's Academy of Medical Sciences,and since 2002 he has held the Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was since 2006 Chairman of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) but in 2020 became a normal member. Bell was selected to the Vaccine Taskforce sometime before 1 July 2020. Bell is also on the board of directors of the SOE quango Genomics England.
Robert John Allison DL is a British academic. Professor Allison has held senior leadership roles in a number of top UK universities. Currently a Non-Executive Director and Trustee of several organisations,Allison was previously the Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University.
Ann Jacqueline Hunter CBE FMedSci FBPharmacolS FRSB is a British scientist who is a board director of BenevolentAI. Hunter is also a visiting professor at St George's Hospital Medical School and Imperial College. She is Chair of the Trustees of the Sainsbury Laboratories at Norwich,chair of the board of the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst and chair of the board of Brainomix. She was previously CEO of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
The 2014 Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. The Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 2014 in the United Kingdom,on 9 June 2014 in Australia,on 2 June 2014 in New Zealand,on 14 June 2014 in Grenada,Papua New Guinea,Solomon Islands,Tuvalu,Saint Lucia and Belize.
Dr Joanna Kennedy OBE FREng FICE,,is a British civil engineer and project manager who was Global Leader for Programme and Project Management at Arup until 2013. She is a patron of Women into Science and Engineering (WISE),which she helped launch in 1984. From 2015 until 2023 she was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery,latterly as deputy chair of the Trustee Board,and she chaired the project board for the Inspiring People redevelopment which was completed on time for the gallery's reopening,after three years closure,in June 2023.
The Honours Committee is a committee within the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom formed to review nominations for national honours for merit,exceptional achievement or service. Twice yearly the Honours Committee submits formal recommendations for the British monarch's New Years and Birthday Honours. Members of the Honours Committee—which comprises a main committee and nine subcommittees in speciality areas—research and vet nominations for national awards,including knighthoods and the Order of the British Empire.
John William Chisholm is a British medical doctor who worked as a general practitioner (GP). Chisholm was chairman of the British Medical Association's General Practitioners' Committee (GPC) between 1997 and 2007.
Mark Edmund Smith,is a British physicist,academic,and academic administrator. He specialises in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and materials physics. Since October 2019,he has been the President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Southampton,having previously held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University,and Professor of Solid State NMR in its Department of Chemistry since 2012. He has previously lectured at the University of Kent and the University of Warwick.
Frances Mary Sorrell,Lady Sorrell,is a British designer and a renowned advocate and campaigner for creative education. She was the Chancellor of the University of Westminster from June 2015-2020.
David Lovell Burbidge,is Chairman of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO),former Chairman of the Coventry City of Culture Trust having led the successful campaign to win the 2021 UK City of Culture title,Chairman of Burbidge &Son Ltd and also a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands,former board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC),Founding Chairman of Furniture Makers Hall and Freeman of the City of London (1979).
The 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours were awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. The Queen's Birthday Honours for the United Kingdom were announced on 16 June;the honours for New Zealand were announced on 5 June and for Australia on 12 June.
The 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. They were announced on 1 June 2022,in anticipation of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. They were the last honours granted by the Queen before her death on 8 September 2022.
