She spent nearly 30 years at British Nuclear Fuels Limited, serving as Group Director of Technology and Operations from 1996-2006. Dame Grand Cross Of The Order Of The British Empire (GBE) Dame Susan Elizabeth Ion OBEĭame Susan Ion is a global expert in nuclear engineering who has made extensive contributions to the public, private and third sectors, serving as an outstanding role model and advocate for STEM careers and shaping long-term energy strategy on domestic and global stages. She is invited to speak all over the world, she is a widely-read cultural commentator and a highly respected academic and teacher, and she has been a pioneer for women’s roles, as one of the few women Reith Lecturers and the first woman President of the RSL. Her intellectual interests range across Europe and beyond, including her work on French and Italian literature on mythology and folklore of Eastern European cultures. She is profoundly involved in the cultural and educational life of the country. She was given the Holberg Prize and a DBE for services to education and literary scholarship in 2015 and the Presidency of the Royal Society of Literature, and a British Academy “Lifetime Achievement” award in 2017.
She has been a Professor at Birkbeck College since 2014 and is a Distinguished Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Dame Marina Sarah Warner CBE FBAĭame Marina Warner is a novelist, cultural historian, art critic, curator, librettist, broadcaster, essayist and critic. He is also a storied author of non-fiction, an essayist, co-editor and a noted humanist. He was knighted for services to literature in 2007. Beginning his career in advertising, Midnight’s Children was twice (19) voted Best of the Bookers by the public. Born in Bombay, he later attended Rugby School and King’s College, Cambridge, where he read History. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie has authored 14 novels, including The Satanic Verses Midnight’s Children (awarded the Booker Prize in 1981) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights The Golden House and Quichotte (published in 2019). He is also involved in the refurbishment of a 19th century building in Islington which, on completion will be probably the largest space in the world devoted to the display and study of illustration. He also creates works for exhibitions, such as We Live in Worrying Times at Hastings Contemporary. Over the past two decades he has also produced many works for specific sites in hospitals and other public spaces. His books have won numerous prizes and awards, including the Whitbread Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award and the international Bologna Ragazzi Prize. A national institution and the doyen of his profession, he has illustrated over 300 books, which have sold millions of copies and entranced three generations of readers. Sir Quentin Blake is one of the most popular and enduring illustrators in the world, who has enjoyed a 70 year long career. Companion Of Honour (CH) Sir Quentin Saxby Blake CBE
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