New Year Honours 2020
Sarah Whatmore DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
“For services to the Study of Environmental Policy.”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
For services to the Study of Environmental Policy.
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London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
28 December 2019
THE QUEEN 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 Sarah Jane WHATMORE F.B.A.
Professor of Environment and Public Policy, University of Oxford
For services to the Study of Environmental Policy.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62866 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Oxfordshire
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“For services to the Study of Environmental Policy.”
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The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 16 times in the New Year Honours List 2020 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2020
Brian Mcleod
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
London, Greater London
“For services to Charity.”
Caroline Allen
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
London, Greater London
“For services to Education.”
Caroline Palmer Yeates
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Surrey
“For services to Cancer Medicine.”
Diana Johnson
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Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
“For charitable and political service.”
Donna Langley-shamshiri
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“For services to Film and Entertainment.”
Gillian Guy
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
London, Greater London
“For services to the Public and Voluntary Sectors.”
Julia Unwin
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
York, North Yorkshire
“For services to Civil Society.”
Lesley Regan
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
London, Greater London
“For services to Women’s Healthcare.”
Olivia Newton-john
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
Living Abroad
“For services to Charity, to Cancer Research and to Entertainment.”
Prof Lynn Faith Gladden
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to Academic and Industrial Research in Chemical Engineering.”
Prof Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
Farnham, Surrey
“For services to Art and to Arts Education.”
Rose Tremain
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
Norwich, Norfolk
“For services to Writing.”
Sharon White
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
London, Greater London
“For public service.”
Susan Campbell
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
Leicestershire
“For services to Sport.”
Teresa Colomba Graham
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2020
London, Greater London
“For services to Small Businesses.”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2020
London Gazette (official record), issue 62866, notice 3454707. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2020).
Published 27 December 2019.
Location (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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