New Year Honours 2025
Francis Kelly CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“For services to Air Pollution Research and to Human Health.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
For services to Air Pollution Research and to Human Health.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
31 December 2024
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
C.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Francis KELLY FMedSci.
Battcock Chair in Community Health and Policy, Imperial College London
For services to Air Pollution Research and to Human Health.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64607 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2025
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2025). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2024.
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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