QUB honours Belfast born business leader
Belfast-born business leader and philanthropist Harvey McGrath and CBI Director-General Richard Lambert were honoured by Queen's today with Doctorates for service to business and commerce.
Harvey McGrath was named in the Guardian as one of the UK's 50 most influential unelected personalities and is the former Chairman and currently a non-executive director of Man Group Plc. The company is one of the world's leading specialist fund managers and largest futures brokers, a member of the FTSE 100 index of leading shares and sponsors the Man Booker Prize, the Man Booker International Prize and the Man Asian Literary Prize.
In the non-profit area, McGrath chairs London First and the East London Business Alliance. He is also governor of a further education college in Tower Hamlets and is active in a number of charities, including New Philanthropy Capital, a research based charity focusing on advising donors. Most recently he has been appointed interim Chairman of the London Development Agency by the new Mayor, Boris Johnson.
Richard Lambert, author of the influential Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration became Director-General of the CBI in July 2006. He is a former Editor of the Financial Times. He joined the paper in 1966, becoming financial editor in 1979. In 1982 he moved to New York as the Bureau Chief, returning to the UK a year later as Deputy Editor.
He became Editor in 1991 and during his 10 years in charge he played a pivotal role in refocusing the paper as a more UK-centred title, almost doubling its circulation during his time at the helm. He also expanded the publication by creating New York, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Paris editions and also moved the paper online.
In 2003 he became the first non-economist ever to sit as an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
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