Honorary Graduates since 2007
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Honorary Degrees Presented since 2007 – University of Strathclyde 2007 University Day – 2 May 2007 Mr Ron Hamilton – DBA Entrepreneur Ms Elish Angiolini – LLD Lord Advocate Ms Eddi Reader - D Univ Singer/Songwriter Prof Frans van Vught – D Litt Former Rector Magnificus, University of Twente, Netherlands Rev Alan McDonald – D Litt Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Summer 2007 21 June 2007 Mr Alistair Ramsay – D Univ Director, Scotland, Against Drugs 25 June 2007 Mr Colin Smith – DSc Director, Engineering & Technology, Rolls Royce Mr Frank Walsh – DSc Executive Vice President, Discovery Wyeth Research, USA 29 June 2007 Ms Wendy Alexander – D Univ MP Paisley North Constituency Office 2 July 2007 Prof Asit Biswas – DSc President, Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico Autumn 2007 31 October 2007 Mr Rolf Kjaer – DSc Technical Director, Color Line Marine, Norway 2 November 2007 Mrs Effie Shaw – D Univ Employment law expert, Citizens Advice Bureau 2008 University Day – 7 May 2008 Mr Andy Arnold – D Litt Artistic Director, The Arches Theatre Mr Fraser Livingston – D Univ Convener, University Court Dr Harrry Burns – D Univ Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Government Mr John Byrne – D Litt Artist and Playwright Summer 2008 26 June 2008 Mr Bruce Malone – D Univ Head Teacher, St Andrew’s Secondary School, Glasgow 30 June 2008 Dr Allan Baxter – DSc Senior Vice President, GlaxoSmithKline 2 July 2008 Mr David Sibbald – DSc Chairman, Sumerian Europe Limited 4 July 2008 Mr Dennis Canavan – LLD Parliamentarian 7 July 2008 Mr Andrew O’Hagan – D Litt Writer Rev Dr Tony Sargent – D Univ International Christian College 11 July 2008 Dr Karen Vousden – DSc Director, The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research Autumn 2008 3 November 2008 Sir Bill Jeffrey – D Univ Permanent Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence 5 November 2008 Prof Joseph Fragola – DSc Vice President, Valador Inc, USA 7 November 2008 Mr Allan Massie – D Litt Novelist, Biographer and Critic 2009 University Day – 6 May 2009 Mr Derek Casey – D Univ Mr Jeff Fergus – D Univ Ms Frances McMenamin QC – DUniv Mr William McArthur – DSc Prof Andrew Hamnett – D Univ Bid Director, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Member of University Court Member of University Court Astronaut and Manager, Safety & Mission Assurance, Johnson Space Centre, USA Former Principal and Vice Chancellor Summer 2009 29 June 2009 Prof Bill Scott – DSc 3 July 2009 Dr Lesley Sawers – DBA 6 July 2009 Prof Seona Reid – D Litt Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Scottish Executive and Scottish Government Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Council for Development and Industry Director, Glasgow School of Art 8 July 2009 Ms Jenni Wolfson – D Univ Deputy Director, WITNESS, USA 10 July 2009 Mr Alex Dorrian – DSc Chief Executive Officer, Thales UK Autumn 2009 2 November 2009 Mr Mark Hunter – DBA Chief Executive Officer, Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) 6 November 2009 Mr Archie Bethel – DSc Chief Executive, Babcock Marine 2010 University Day – 5 May 2010 Vey Rev David Lunan – D Litt Mr Jim McColl – DBA Prof James Gimzewski – DSc Former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Chairman and Chief Executive, Clyde Blowers Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA, USA Summer 2010 5 July 2010 Prof George Salmond – DSc Dr David Stirling – DSc Professor of Molecular Microbiology, University of Cambridge Former Chief Officer & Executive Vice President, Celgene Corporation, USA 7 July 2010 Mr Alan Gavin – DSc Marine Director, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping 9 July 2010 Ms Linda McDonald – D Univ Founder of the Charity MUMs (Malawi Underprivleged Mothers) 12 July 2010 Mr Alastair Reid – LLD Rt Hon John McFall – D Univ Writer, Poet and Translator Privy Counsellor and former MP for West Dunbarttonshire 15 July 2010 Dr Mohammed Eisa – DSc Deputy Director of the Environmental Branch in the United Nations Industrial Development Autumn 2010 22 September 2010 Sir Charles Kao - DSc 1 November 2010 Mr Frank Blin – DBA Executive Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Scotland 3 November 2010 Prof Eric Cornell – DSc Prof Roy Glauber – DSc Prof Steven Chu – DSc Joint Nobel Prize in Physics 2001, Physicist with National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Joint Nobel Prize in Physics 2005, Professor of Physics at Harvard University Joint Nobel Prize in Physics 1997, US Secretary of Energy 2011 January 2011 Professor Charles Townes - DSc Joint Nobel Prize in Physics 1964, Professor of Physics at UC Berkely University Day – 4 May 2011 Prof Theodor Hansch – DSc Dr Bill Phillips – DSc Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – DSc Prof Seamus Heaney – D Litt Joint Nobel Prize in Physics 2005, Director of MaxPlanck-Institut für Quantenoptik (quantum optics) Joint Nobel Prize in Physics 1997, Laser Cooling and Trapping Group Joint Nobel Prize in Physics 1997, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Départment de Physique deI’ENS Nobel Prize for Literature 1995, Poet, Translator and Essayist Summer 2011 1 July 2011 Prof Wolfgang Ketterle – DSc Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nobel Prize Winner 6 July 2011 Prof Sir Timothy O’Shea – D Univ Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh 8 July 2011 Dr Sanjay Jha – DSc 11 July 2011 Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Motorola Mobility Inc Prof Ken Walters – DSc Leading European Rheologist and Fellow of the Royal Society 13 July 2011 Prof David Croisdale-Appleby – DBA “For sustained and courageous service to humanity” 14 July 2011 Mr John Baxter – DSc Group Head of Engineering, BP International Ltd Summer 2012 29 June 2012 Sir Tim Hunt – DUniv Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001, Researcher at Cancer Research UK Friday 6 July Mr John Neil – DUniv Group Chief Executive, Unipart Group Wednesday 11 July Professor Stanislaw Bielecki – DSc Rector Magnificus of Lodz University of Technology Thursday 12 July Mr Bob Winter – DUniv Former Lord Provost, Glasgow City Council Professor Wilson Sibbett – DUniv A leading UK and iinternational laser scientist School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews November 2012 Monday 12 November 2012 Professor Neil Gershenfeld - D Univ Director of MIT’s Centre for Bits and Atoms Wednesday 14 November 2012 Sir Paul Nurse - DSc Geneticist and Cell Biologist, President of The Royal Society Saturday 17 November 2012 Professor Anne Glover - DSc Chief Scientific Adviser, European Commission Mr Fran Healy - D Univ Singer/Songwriter 2013 Monday 18 February 2013 Mr Keith Cochrane – DSc CEO, The Weir Group Professor Ignacio Galan – DSc Chairman and CEO, Iberdrola Mr Steve Holiday – DSc CEO, The National Grid Professor David MacKay – DSc Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Energy and Climate Change Mr Ian Marchant – DSc CEO, Scottish and Southern Energy plc Sir Ian Wood – DSc Chairman, John Wood Group plc Summer 2013 Thursday 27 June 2013 Dr Hermann Hauser CBE – DUniv Co-founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd Member of the Advisory Board on the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and the UK’s Council for Science and Technology Dr Mei Ling Young – DSc Co-founder and Executive Director of the International Medical University Friday 28 June 2013 Professor Jackie Kay – DLitt Scottish Poet and Novelist Monday 1 July 2013 Mr Choong Heum Park – DUniv Chief Technical Officer, Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd Mr John Giannandrea – DUniv Director of Engineering, Google Former Chief Technologist, Netscape Tuesday 2 July 2013 Justice Albie Sachs – LLD Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, author and human rights activist Wednesday 3 July 2013 Mr Colin Hood – DSc Founding Chair of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Former Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of Scottish & Southern Energy plc Thursday 4 July 2013 Ambassador Karl Inderfurth – DUniv Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies Former US Representative for Special Political Affairs to the United Nations Mr John Anderson – DUniv Founder and Chief Executive of the Entrepreneurial Exchange Founding Director of Rock Ventures Ltd November 2013 Wednesday 13 November 2013 Mr Lindsay Montgomery – LLD Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Legal Aid Board Ms Romy Langland – D Univ Chair of Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) Mr James McKillop – D Univ Chair of the Scottish Dementia Working Group and founder member of the Glasgow School of Social Work Thursday 14 November 2013 Professor John Sexton – D Univ President of New York University and leading law academic Friday 15 November 2013 Mr Iain MacRitchie – DBA Chairman, CEO and founder of MCR Holdings and the MCR Charitable Foundation Mr Derek Feeley – DBA Executive Vice President of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former Director-General for Health & Social Care in Scotland and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland 2014 Summer 2014 Friday 27 June 2014 Mr Bernard McLaverty – D Litt British Poet and Novelist Dame Stephanie Shirley – D Univ Business Woman and Philanthropist Monday 30 June 2014 Mr Stuart Ballantyne – D Sc Naval Architect Dr Bonnie Dunbar – D Sc Engineer and Astronaut Tuesday 1 July 2014 Mr Andy Scott – D Univ Sculptor Dr Hamid Mughal – D Sc Executive Vice-President of Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, Rolls-Royce Wednesday 2 July 2014 Professor Roald Hoffmann – D Sc Chemist, Poet and Playwright Em Professor Donald Pack – D Univ Former Head of Mathematics Department and Vice Principal Mrs Linda McTavish – D Univ Former Principal of Anniesland College Thursday 3 July 2014 Mrs Louise Martin – D Univ Led the successful bid for Glasgow to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games Friday 4 July 2014 Dr Mary McAleese – D Univ Former President of Ireland Lord Gus O’Donnell – D Univ Former Cabinet Secretary November 2014 Thursday 13 November 2014 Mr David Allen – D Sc Senior Vice-President (Respiratory) and Global Chief Chemist, GlaxoSmithKline KEY D Sc DBA D Litt LLD D Univ Doctor of Science Doctor of Business Administration Doctor of Letters Doctor of Laws Doctor of the University
