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The King's Birthday Honours 2025 Overseas and International List: Order of the British Empire

Updated 13 June 2025
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Level Award Name Job title Short citation
Order of the British Empire (Commander) CBE Christian SALBAING Deputy Chairman, Europe, Hutchison Whampoa (Europe) Ltd. For services to Investment in the UK.
Order of the British Empire (Commander) CBE Valerie TAYLOR OBE Founder, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, Bangladesh. For services to Disadvantaged People in Bangladesh.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Professor Michael BENTLEY Professor of Geography, Durham University. For services to Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Science.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Professor James BROWN Discipline Leader (Maths), University of Technology, Sydney. For services to Statistics in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Dr Mary BUNN Palliative Care Doctor, Sierra Leone; Trustee of Hospice Africa UK. For services to the Development of Palliative Care in Sierra Leone.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Simon BUSH Director of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sightsavers. For services to the Control and Elimination of Global Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE David CARTER Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to National Security.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Professor Christopher CLAPHAM Retired Professor, The Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University. For services to Academia, Foreign Policy, and UK relations with the Horn of Africa.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Emeritus Professor Kevin FEATHERSTONE Emeritus Professor (European Institute) and Professorial Research Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics. For services to Academia and to UK/Greece relations.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Matthew FEATHERSTONE President, Cricket Brazil. For services to Sport and Disadvantaged Communities, Women and Girls Overseas.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Dr Yvonne GREENSTREET Chief Executive Officer, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. For services to the UK/US Biotechnology and Life Sciences Industry.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Edward HANNAH Head of Overseas Estates Department and Chief Engineer, Estates, Security & Network Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Christopher CAMPBELL-HOLT Registrar and Chief Executive of the Astana International Finance Centre Court and International Arbitration Centre, Kazakhstan. For services to the Rule of Law and the English Common Law.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Dulcie JAMES Policy advisor for the Ministry of Finance, and Retired Commissioner, Financial Services Commission, Montserrat. For services to Public and Financial services and Community Development in Montserrat.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Dr Anne KERR Chair of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong; Global Head of Cities and Managing Director Greater China, Mott MacDonald, Hong Kong. For services to UK Business and Trade.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Dr Martin MILTON Director, International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, BIPM). For services to Measurement Science.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Dr Robin MILTON lately Deputy Director, Humanitarian Development & Economic Department, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Michael NITHAVRIANAKIS MVO lately British Ambassador to Somalia. For services to British Foreign Policy and to Education in Pakistan.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Stephen PALMER Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to National Security.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Professor Andrew ROWLAND J.P. Officer for Child Protection, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Board Member, M'Lop Tapang; Chair of the Board of Trustees, SicKids. For services to Safeguarding and the Protection of Children’s Rights.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Kirsty SMITH Chief Executive Officer, CBM UK. For services to People Living with Disabilities Overseas.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Professor Mary STEEN Professor of Midwifery, Curtin University and King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Australia. For services to Midwifery and Maternal and Familial Health research.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Martyn STEWART Nature Sound Recordist. For Services to the Natural World.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Billy STEWART MBE lately Development Director, British Consulate General Jerusalem. For services to International Development.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Sarah SURGENOR Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to National Security.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Ann SWAMPILLAI Deputy Director, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to National Security.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Helen TWIST lately Private Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretaries of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Professor Natalie WARAN Emeritus Professor (One Welfare), the Eastern Institute of Technology, Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh and Hartpury University; Director, Companion Animals New Zealand Good Life for Animals Centre. For services to Equine Welfare, Research and Education.
Order of the British Empire (Officer) OBE Professor Andrew WESTBY Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge Exchange, University of Greenwich; Former Director, Natural Resources Institute. For services to Research in Food Security and Leadership of the Natural Resources Institute.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Damian ADAMS lately President of the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore. For services to British Business interests in Singapore.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Heather ARMSTRONG Director, Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust. For services to Animal Welfare and the Alleviation of Poverty in The Gambia.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Stephen ASHWORTH Regional Finance Director, British Council in the Americas. For services to UK/Americas Cultural relations.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Stuart BAGSHAW Chairman, Love of the Game; lately Chairman, the British American Business Network, Chairman and Trustee, the Atlas Foundation Americas and Chairman, Play Rugby USA. For services to UK/US Business and Trade and to Charity.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Lindsay BAKER Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Gary BENNETT Founder, the Scottish Emergency Rescue Association. For services to Charity through the support to Fire Services Internationally.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Dr Benjamin BURT Curator, Oceania Section, the British Museum. For services to UK/Solomon Islands relations.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Nicola BUXTON Executive Director, Belize Bird Rescue. For services to Conservation, Education and Preservation of Bird Life in Belize.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Dr Peter COOPER Retired Soil Scientist. For services to Science and Scientific Research, particularly Soil Health.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Khalida COX lately Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Operations Manager, British High Commission Apia, Samoa. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE James DODDS Partner, KPMG Japan; Director, Refugees Empowerment International. For services to The British Community in Japan through Education, Business and Trade and to Charity.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Professor Toby DODGE Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics. For services to UK interests in Iraq.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Stuart D'SOUZA Chief Executive Officer, Arabian Enterprise Incubators. For services to UK Business and Trade in Saudi Arabia.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Niall FRY Team Leader, Global Health Security, Health and Security Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to International Development.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Raj GHOSE Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Annie GREEN Co-Chair, Childline Gibraltar. For services to Vulnerable Children in Gibraltar.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Jonathan HAMILTON Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Inspire Indonesia. For services to Sport for Youth Social Development in Indonesia.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Dr Jean HANDSCOMBE Volunteer for the Historical, Archaeological, Archive and Museum Committee, the National Trust Montserrat. For services to the preservation of Cultural and Historical Records in Montserrat.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Carol HARDMAN Founding Director, Vipingo Village Fund Charity. For services to Education and Charity in Kenya.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Joanne HEALEY Executive Director, British American Business Council. For services to British business in the United States of America.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Caroline LAMB Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Christian Relief, Education, Skills & Sustainability (CRESS). For services to South Sudanese Refugees.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Margaret LLOYD Volunteer, Built Heritage Committee, Bermuda National Trust For services to Architectural Heritage in Bermuda.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Professor Mohamed LOUTFI President and Vice-Chancellor, The British University in Egypt. For services to Education in the United Kingdom and Egypt.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Glenn LUDLOW Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to National Security.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Ainsley MANN President Director, PT Swire Investments Indonesia; Scottish Government Trade and Investment Envoy to Indonesia. For services to Scottish, and other UK business interests in Indonesia.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Terrence MARTIN Founder, Wessex School, Concepcion Chile. For services to British Education in Chile.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Kay McARDLE Lawyer; Founder and Director, Equal Justice Ltd. For services to Community Legal Access and Women’s Rights in Hong Kong.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Lesley MISTRY Trustee and Lead Nurse, Healing Little Hearts Global Foundation. For services to the co-ordination of Heart Surgery for Children Internationally.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Dr Winston MOORE Chairman, the Anglo Bolivian Society. For services to the Bolivian Community in the United Kingdom, to UK/Bolivia Business and Trade and to Charity.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Denise MURTON Chief Inspector, Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. For services to Animal Welfare in Zimbabwe.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Matthew OSBORNE lately Head of the United Nation Cybercrime Convention Negotiations, Cyber Policy Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Susan OZTURK Founder and Director, the Vera Thomson English School, Rakhine State, Myanmar. For services to Children’s Education and Healthcare in Myanmar.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Joan POLLOCK Founder and Chair, The Spiti Projects, Himachal Pradesh, India. For services to Health and Education for the people of the Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Order of the British Empire (Member) MBE Lewis PORTER Senior Site Manager, FCDO Services. For services to National Security and Defence in the Falkland Islands.
Order of the British Empire MBE Michael RICHARDS Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to National Security.
Order of the British Empire MBE Geoffrey ROBERTS Battle of Arnhem Veteran. For services to the Commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem and to Charity.
Order of the British Empire MBE Martin SMITH Independent Analyst and Reporter; Trustee, Prospect Burma. For services to Development in Myanmar.
Order of the British Empire MBE Paul TAYLOR Supervisor and Founding Partner, Unique Hotels Group. For services to UK/Estonia relations.
Order of the British Empire MBE Janet VARNEY lately Nurse; Volunteer, the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, Bangladesh; Trustee, Harbour Housing, United Kingdom. For services to Disabled and Disadvantaged people in Bangladesh and the United Kingdom.
Order of the British Empire MBE Roger VARNEY Volunteer, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, Bangladesh and for Harbour Housing, United Kingdom. For services to Disabled and Disadvantaged people in Bangladesh and the United Kingdom.
Order of the British Empire MBE David WEBB Independent Investor and Corporate Transparency Campaigner; Founder, Webb-site. For services to Raising Standards of Corporate Economic Governance, particularly in Hong Kong.
Order of the British Empire MBE Professor Maurice WHITEHEAD Director of Heritage Collections and Research Fellow, Venerable English College, Rome. For services to the development of British Heritage in Rome, Italy.
Order of the British Empire MBE Garreth WOOD Co-Founder and Chairman, Kids Operating Room. For services to Health and Charity, particularly Surgery for Children internationally.
Order of the British Empire MBE Nicola WOOD Co-Founder and Trustee, Kids Operating Room. For services to Health and Charity, particularly Surgery for Children internationally.
Order of the British Empire MBE Michael WOOLLARD Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to National Security.
Order of the British Empire BEM John BERRY Co-Founder, Jack Berry Fijian Foundation. For services to Education in Fiji.
Order of the British Empire BEM Tina BERRY Co-Founder, Jack Berry Fijian Foundation. For services to Education in Fiji.
Order of the British Empire BEM Elizabeth BURROWES Director of Music Education, Brass for Africa, Uganda. For services to Music Education for Disadvantaged Young People in Africa.
Order of the British Empire BEM Jack NETTLETON BURROWS lately Second Secretary Political, British Embassy Tel Aviv, Israel. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire BEM Dr Jennifer CHANDLER-COOKE lately Second Secretary Political, British Embassy Tel Aviv, Israel. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire BEM Julie COOPER Charity Fundraiser, the British Virgin Islands. For services to Charity Fundraising in the British Virgin Islands.
Order of the British Empire BEM Mark COOPER Charity Fundraiser for Cancer Relief, Gibraltar. For services to Charity Fundraising in Gibraltar.
Order of the British Empire BEM Annabel MITCHELL-GEARS lately Political Consul, British Consulate General Jerusalem. For services to British Foreign Policy.
Order of the British Empire BEM Haytham HAMAD Vice Consul, British Consulate General Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. For services to British Nationals Overseas.
Order of the British Empire BEM Sharoon LALLMAHOMED Corporate Services Manager, British High Commission Port Louis, Mauritius. For services to the British High Commission in Port Louis.
Order of the British Empire BEM Denis LEWIS Honorary Representative for the Kings African Rifles Veterans Trust (Malawi). For services to Veterans and their families in Malawi.
Order of the British Empire BEM Michael McCARTHY Lay Canon, lately Director of Music, Washington National Cathedral, United States of America. For services to Music and to UK/US relations.
Order of the British Empire BEM Angela McGRATH President, Cala Nova Cancer Care charity, Mallorca, Spain. For services to Charity Fundraising in Mallorca, Spain.
Order of the British Empire BEM Julian MURRAY Vice Consul, British Consulate General Jerusalem. For services to British Nationals in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Order of the British Empire BEM Warren ROBE lately Technical Works Supervisor, British Embassy Tehran. For services to the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
Order of the British Empire BEM Susan ROUTLEDGE Founder and Chair, Pitt Hopkins UK. For services to raising awareness of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome.
Order of the British Empire BEM Diane SWAN Co-Founder and Treasurer, The Meserani Project, Tanzania For services to Young People and Communities in Tanzania and the United Kingdom.
Order of the British Empire BEM Peter SWAN Co-Founder and Chairman, The Meserani Project, Tanzania. For services to Young People and Communities in Tanzania and the United Kingdom.
Order of the British Empire BEM Hannah TURNER Teacher; Chairperson, Manama Theatre Club, Bahrain. For services to the promotion of British Culture and the Arts in Bahrain.
Order of the British Empire BEM Robert WILLIAMS Chair and Co-Founder, Knights in White Lycra, Japan. For services to Charity Fundraising in Japan.
Order of the British Empire BEM Margaret KIMBER-ZAHARIA Founder, Little John's House, Romania. For services to Children and Young Adults with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities in Romania.