Birthday Honours 2020
Emma Walmsley DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Chief Executive Officer
“For services to the Pharmaceutical Industry and to Business.”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
For services to the Pharmaceutical Industry and to Business.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
10 October 2020
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
D.B.E.
To be Ordinary Dames Commander of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Emma WALMSLEY
Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline
For services to the Pharmaceutical Industry and to Business.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63135 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to the Pharmaceutical Industry and to Business.”
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How common is this award?
The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 12 times in the Birthday Honours List 2020 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
80 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Greater London.
What organisation were they with?
Chief Executive Officer.
How widely is this recognised?
3,913 people have been recognised for Business & Economy.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 2020
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“For services to Nursing.”
Linda Pollard
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Mary Berry
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“For services to Broadcasting, to the Culinary Arts and to Charity.”
Maureen Lipman
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“For services to Charity, Entertainment and the Arts.”
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“For services to Nursing.”
Professor Muffy Calder
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Glasgow, City of Glasgow
“For services to Research and to Education.”
Sarah Worthington
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“For services to English Private Law.”
Siobhan Davies
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“For services to Dance.”
Susan Hill
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Deborah Wosskow
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Natalie Wade
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Wendy Carlin
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Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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Hannah Bernard
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Brighton, East Sussex
“For services to Female Entrepreneurship and Access to Finance for Women.”
Raymond Pritchard
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Lorna Williams
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Gregory Mckinley
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Ballymena, County Antrim
“For services to the Economy in Northern Ireland.”
Erica Maxwell
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Dungannon, County Tyrone
“For services to the Economy and to the community in Northern Ireland.”
James Fraser
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Dunblane, Stirling and Falkirk
“For services to Tourism and Heritage in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.”
Ernest Fallowfield
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Bowness-On-Windermere, Cumbria
“For services to Tourism.”
Isabella Cameron
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Isle of Uist, Western Isles
“For services to Hospitality and to the Rural Economy in South Uist.”
Tina Barton
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Shaftesbury, Dorset
“For services to Science and to Trade.”
Ronjon Nag
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Hollie Whittles
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Telford, Shropshire
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Ann Watson
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Gary Stevens
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Halesowen, West Midlands
“For services to Manufacturing, to International Trade and to Apprenticeships.”
Richard Scaife
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Dronfield, Derbyshire
“For services to Manufacturing.”
Becky Ruddy
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Thurso, Caithness
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Pino De Rosa
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Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
“For services to the Railway Industry.”
Nadeem Rizvi
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Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
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Crewe, Cheshire
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2020
London Gazette (official record), issue 63135, notice 3645914. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2020).
Published 9 October 2020.
Location (London, Greater London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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