Birthday Honours 2025
Peter Lauener
Knight Bachelor
Chief Executive • Education and Skills Funding Agency
“For services to Education.”
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Recognised for
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London Gazette notice
Knights Bachelor
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
14 June 2025
THE KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty’s Birthday, to signify his intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned:
Peter Rene LAUENER C.B.
lately Chief Executive, Education and Skills Funding Agency, and lately Board Member, Department for Education
For services to Education.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64759 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Role, region and citation as recorded for each award.
Knight Bachelor
Birthday Honours 2025- Role at the time
- Chief Executive, Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Region
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire
“For services to Education.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 14 times in the Birthday Honours List 2025 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
2 Knight Bachelor recipients are from South Yorkshire.
What organisation were they with?
Chief Executive, Education and Skills Funding Agency.
How widely is this recognised?
5,862 people have been recognised for Education.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2025
Alexander Charles Beard
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
London, Greater London
“For services to the Arts.”
Andrew Christie
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
Crowthorne, Berkshire
“For services to Children’s Services.”
David Beckham
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
London, Greater London
“For services to Sport and to Charity.”
Gary Oldman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
Abroad
“For services to Drama.”
Hans Rausing
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
London, Greater London
“For services to the Arts.”
Mark Tami
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
Wrexham, Clwyd
“For Political and Public Service.”
Paul Tarn
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
“For services to Education.”
Roger Daltrey
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
London, Greater London
“For services to Charity and to Music.”
Rufus Norris
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
London, Greater London
“For services to Theatre.”
Stephen Watson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
Lancaster, Lancashire
“For services to Policing.”
Thomas Roddick
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
Emsworth, Hampshire
“For services to Charity and Philanthropy.”
Vernon Gibson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
Ambleside, Cumbria
“For services to Science and to Defence.”
William Boston
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2025
Wigan, Greater Manchester
“For services to Rugby League Football. (To be dated 10 June 2025)”
In the same field
Others recognised for Education
Across the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records, 5,862 people have been recognised for Education. See the full list →
Henry Cyril Grunwald
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to Holocaust Remembrance and Education.”
Stephen Thurston Munby
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2026
Kendal, Cumbria
“For services to Education.”
Shelagh Jane Legrave
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Chichester, West Sussex
“For services to Education.”
Rachael Ross
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Hinton Daubnay, Hampshire
“For services to Education, to Policy and to People with Down Syndrome.”
Debra Gray
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Dronfield, Derbyshire
“For services to Further Education.”
William Smith
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Witney, Oxfordshire
“For services to Education.”
Dawn Tinley
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to People with Learning Disabilities in Jersey.”
Keri Scott
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to Education in Gibraltar.”
Glenda Mctaggart
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to Education in the Cayman Islands.”
Catherine Grove
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to Education and Young People in The Gambia.”
Julia Downey
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to Children and Education in Moldova.”
Barbara Connell
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to Education and Young People in The Gambia.”
Diane Willson
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Bognor Regis, West Sussex
“For services to the Education Community in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.”
Caroline Tyerman
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Durham, County Durham
“For services to Education.”
Patricia Wells
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to Early Years in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.”
Alison Turner
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to the Learning Disabled and Neurodiverse Community.”
Louise Sutherland
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Leatherhead, Surrey
“For services to Early Years.”
Peter Scobie
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Newtownards, County Down
“For services to Higher Education.”
Audrey Moore
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Limavady, County Londonderry
“For voluntary services to Special Education.”
Fiona Mccullough
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Tamworth, Staffordshire
“For services to Education and Outreach.”
Rita Lewis (helen Hopkins)
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Carmarthen, Dyfed
“For services to Music and Music Education.”
Iraklis Kolokotronis
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to the Early Years.”
Fiona Knight
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Corwen, Clwyd
“For services to People with Learning Disabilities and to Autistic People.”
Eleanor Keeley
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to Education.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2025
London Gazette (official record), issue 64759, notice 4905677. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2025).
Published 13 June 2025.
Location (Sheffield, South Yorkshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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