OBEs for honorary doctors and visiting professor
Huddersfield honorary doctors Kavita Oberoi (left) and Professor Isobel Pollock
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:49:00 BST
Kavita Oberoi, Professor Isobel Pollock and Professor David Williams receive OBEs
TWO professors and a leading entrepreneur who all have strong links to the University of Huddersfield have been made OBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
The entrepreneur is Bradford-born Kavita Oberoi, who studied chemistry at the University, achieving First Class Honours. This was the springboard for a career first in the pharmaceutical industry and then her own consultancy.
The consultancy provides clinical audits, business advice and IT training to GP practices, primary care trusts and the pharmaceutical industry. Oberoi Consulting is now a leading player in the sector and its founder is highly sought after as a motivational speaker at corporate events. She has made many TV appearances and her OBE is recognition of her contribution to entrepreneurship and business start-ups. In 2013 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Huddersfield.
Professor Isobel Pollock has received an OBE for her services to mechanical engineering. In 2012, she became the 127th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering (IMechE) and has paid several recent fact-finding visits to the University of Huddersfield, where she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2004. In addition to her academic career – leading to a professorship at the University of Leeds – she had many years of managerial experience with several major multi-national companies.
David Williams (pictured), whose OBE has been awarded for services to science and engineering, is a Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield’s Arms and Armour Research Institute and one of his key research areas is the history of precision manufacturing, particularly gun making. He is also an authority on regenerative medicine and is Professor of Healthcare Engineering at Loughborough University.
