New Year Honours 2025
Ijeoma Uchegbu DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
President • Wolfson College
“For services to the Chemical Sciences and to Inclusion and Diversity.”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
For services to the Chemical Sciences and to Inclusion and Diversity.
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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:
D.B.E.
To be Ordinary Dames Commander of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Ijeoma Florence UCHEGBU FMedSci.
President, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
For services to the Chemical Sciences and to Inclusion and Diversity.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64607 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to the Chemical Sciences and to Inclusion and Diversity.”
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How common is this award?
The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 13 times in the New Year Honours List 2025 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
5 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
What organisation were they with?
President, Wolfson College.
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.
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Guildford, Surrey
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Gillingham, Kent
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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2025
London Gazette (official record), issue 64607, notice 4782707. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2025).
Published 30 December 2024.
Location (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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