New Year Honours 2013
Hossein Yassaie
Knight Bachelor
Chief Executive Officer • Imagination Technologies Group
“For services to Technology and Innovation.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2013
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Hertfordshire
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Knight Bachelor
New Year Honours 2013- Role at the time
- Chief Executive Officer, Imagination Technologies Group
- Region
- Hertfordshire
“For services to Technology and Innovation.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 25 times in the New Year Honours List 2013 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Chief Executive Officer, Imagination Technologies Group.
How widely is this recognised?
1,797 people have been recognised for Science, Engineering & Technology.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2013
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“For services to Policing.”
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Lancashire
“For services to Cycling.”
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Cornwall
“For services to Sailing.”
Christopher Stone
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West Midlands
“For services to Education.”
David Hugh Wootton Mayor of London
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Kent
“For services to Legal Business, Charity and the City of London.”
David Neil Payne
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Hampshire
“For services to Photonics Research and Applications.”
David Whitlock Tanner
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London
“For services to Rowing and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
Elizabeth Fradd
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Derbyshire
“For services to Cycling and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
George Thomas Berwick
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Essex
“For services to Education.”
Hector William Hepburn Sants
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Oxfordshire
“For services to Financial Services and Regulation.”
Hew Francis Anthony Strachan
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Lanarkshire
“For services to the Ministry of Defence.”
Ian David Diamond
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Aberdeen
“For services to Social Science and Higher Education.”
John Mark Nicholas Leighton
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Edinburgh
“For services to Art.”
Keith Burnett
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South Yorkshire
“For services to Science and Higher Education.”
Kenneth Henry Grange
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London
“For services to Design.”
Martin Gregory Smith
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Oxfordshire
“For charitable services to Education, the Arts and Science.”
Martin James Narey
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North Yorkshire
“For services to Vulnerable People.”
Michael Aron Heller
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London
“For charitable services.”
Nicholas Stephen Williams
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London
“For services to Education.”
Peter Gerard Hendy
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2013
Somerset
“for London.”
Quentin Saxby Blake
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London
“For services to Illustration.”
Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd
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West Midlands
“for Aldridge Brownhill.”
Robert Stephen O’Brien
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Essex
“For services to Healthcare and to the community in London.”
Simon Charles Wessely
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London
“For services to Military Healthcare and to Psychological Medicine.”
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Across the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records, 1,797 people have been recognised for Science, Engineering & Technology. See the full list →
Hayaatun Sillem
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“For services to Engineering.”
Stephen Andrew Smith
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Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Matthew Wilson
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Robertsbridge, East Sussex
“For services to Blood Cancer Awareness and Research.”
Ann Watson
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London, Greater London
“For services to the Advancement of Skills in the Engineering and Manufacturing Sector.”
Ghulam Ng
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Leicester, Leicestershire
“For services to Medical Research and Healthcare.”
James Markey
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Guildford, Surrey
“For services to the Technology Sector.”
Jane Gate
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Thatcham, Berkshire
“For services to Science and the Innovation Ecosystem.”
Maurice Geddis
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Dromore, County Down
“For services to Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Northern Ireland.”
Mark Downs
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Deal, Kent
“For services to Biology.”
Jonathan Boddington
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Oswestry, Shropshire
“For services to Design and Innovation in Furniture Making.”
Olubukola Babajide
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
“For services to Technology, to Business and to Inclusion.”
Geoffrey Underwood
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Newport, Isle of Wight
“For services to the Technology Industry.”
Sharon Todd
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to Innovation.”
Ian Ritchey
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
“For services to Engineering.”
Brian Mcconnell
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Bristol, City of Bristol
“For services to Engineering.”
Rashmi Mantri
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Glasgow, City of Glasgow
“For services to Mathematics Education.”
Myrtle Dawes
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen
“For services to Energy and Technology.”
John Boumphrey
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
“For services to Technology, Consumer and Digital Commerce Industry.”
Timothy Orchard
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to the NHS and Healthcare Research and Innovation.”
Adikaari Adikaari
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Guildford, Surrey
“For services to Research and Innovation to Tackle Climate Change.”
Katherine Smith
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Stourbridge, West Midlands
“For services to Brain Tumour Research and to Charity.”
Mark Bamforth
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
“For services to UK Life Sciences and to UK/USA business relations.”
Benjamin Towers
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Gillingham, Kent
“For services to the Startup Business Community, Excellence in Innovation and Enterprise.”
Professor Rees
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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
“For services to Multi-Hazard Science and Disaster Risk Reduction.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2013
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2013).
Published 29 December 2012.
Location (Hertfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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