Birthday Honours 2025
Philip Colligan CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Chief Executive Officer
“For services to Engineering and Technology for Societal Impact.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
For services to Engineering and Technology for Societal Impact.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
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 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:
Philip Albert COLLIGAN
Chief Executive Officer, Raspberry Pi Foundation
For services to Engineering and Technology for Societal Impact.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64759 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to Engineering and Technology for Societal Impact.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 108 times in the Birthday Honours List 2025 — about 7% of the list.
In their area
33 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
What organisation were they with?
Chief Executive Officer.
How widely is this recognised?
1,706 people have been recognised for Science, Engineering & Technology.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2025
London Gazette (official record), issue 64759, notice 4905921. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2025).
Published 13 June 2025.
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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