Birthday Honours 2024
Washington Ochieng CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
lately Head • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems
“For services to Global Positioning and Navigation Systems.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
For services to Global Positioning and Navigation Systems.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
15 June 2024
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:
Professor Washington Yotto OCHIENG FREng.
Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems, Imperial College London
For services to Global Positioning and Navigation Systems.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64423 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 2024- Role at the time
- lately Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems
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- Wokingham, Berkshire
“For services to Global Positioning and Navigation Systems.”
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The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 97 times in the Birthday Honours List 2024 — about 7% of the list.
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20 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Berkshire.
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lately Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2024
London Gazette (official record), issue 64423, notice 4644844. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2024).
Published 14 June 2024.
Location (Wokingham, Berkshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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