New Year Honours 2024
Robert Noort CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Chair • Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee and Vice Chancellor
“For services to Science, to Flood Risk Management and to Sustainability.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
For services to Science, to Flood Risk Management and to Sustainability.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
30 December 2023
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 Robert Adrianus Leonardus Van De NOORT
Chair, Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee and Vice Chancellor, University of Reading
For services to Science, to Flood Risk Management and to Sustainability.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64269 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2024- Role at the time
- Chair, Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee and Vice Chancellor
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- Oxford, Oxfordshire
“For services to Science, to Flood Risk Management and to Sustainability.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 119 times in the New Year Honours List 2024 — about 7% of the list.
In their area
45 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Oxfordshire.
What organisation were they with?
Chair, Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee and Vice Chancellor.
How widely is this recognised?
1,438 people have been recognised for Environment & Agriculture.
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 · 2024
London Gazette (official record), issue 64269, notice 4520076. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2024).
Published 29 December 2023.
Location (Oxford, Oxfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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