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Honorary awards to foreign nationals in 2022

Updated 12 April 2023

His Majesty King Charles III approved the following honorary British awards in 2022.

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)

Honorary CBE

Name Role Short citation
Sarina WIEGMAN England Women’s National Football Coach For services to Association football

State Visit

His Excellency The President of the Republic of South Africa, 22 to 24 November 2022

Honorary GCB

Name Role
His Excellency Cyril RAMAPHOSA President of the Republic of South Africa

Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II approved the following honorary British awards in 2022

The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George

Honorary KCMG

Name Role Short citation
Khaled Abdulaziz AL-DUWAISAN GCVO Ambassador of Kuwait to the Court of St James’s and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps For services to UK/Kuwaiti relations and to the UK Diplomatic Community

Honorary CMG

Name Role Short citation
Gonzalo MUNOZ ABOGABIR High-Level Champion for the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties For services to tackling climate change and supporting the UK Presidency of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)

Honorary DBE

Name Role Short citation
Christiana FIGUERES International Climate Leader For services to International leadership on global climate change

Honorary KBE

Name Role Short citation
Robert IGER Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Disney Company For services to the UK/US relations
John WILLIAMS Composer and Conductor For services to film music

Honorary CBE

Name Role Short citation
Benjamin BARKOW Former Chief Executive Wiener Holocaust Library For services to Holocaust Education and Remembrance
Rafael DEL PINO CALVO-SOTELO Chairman, Ferrovial For services to the UK transport and infrastructure sectors
Oliver FRANKLIN Honorary Consul for Greater Philadelphia For services to UK/US relations
Ken HOM Chef and Author For services to charity, culinary arts and education
Dr Susan HOPKINS Healthcare Epidemiologist Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Public Health England For services to Public Health
Ali KOÇ Vice-Chair of Board, Koç Holdings For services to Trade and Investment between Britain and Turkey
George KOUKIS Founder Temenos and Chair of The Mozartists For services to Music, Medicine and Education
Kee Sin LIEW Executive Chairman of Eco World Malaysia and Executive Vice Chairman of Eco World International Berhad For services to Regeneration Projects in the United Kingdom
Stephen O’CONNELL Deputy Director, Public Sector Prisons, HM Prison and Probation Service For services to the Prison Service and to charity
Ajay PIRAMAL India Co-Chair UK-India CEO Forum For services to the UK-India trade relationship
Professor Cheng-Hock TOH Lately President, British Society for Haematology and Academic Vice-President, Royal College of Physicians For services to haematology and medicine

Honorary OBE

Name Role Short citation
Frans CALJÉ Chief Executive Officer, PD Ports For services to International Trade
Phaedon CHRISTOPOULOS Managing Director of CPPC Logistics, Sovereign Base Area Cyprus For services to British Forces Cyprus and the Sovereign Base Area Administration
George HOLDING Congressman, US House of Representatives For services to UK-US Relations
Professor Keith HUMPHREYS Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University For services to Science and policy on addiction
Hindou IBRAHIM Co-ordinator, Association of Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad For services to tackling International Climate Change
Kishore JAYARAMAN President Rolls-Royce India and South Asia For services to International Trade and Investment
Dr Vinod JOSHI Retired dentist and founder of the Mouth Cancer Foundation in the UK For services to fighting cancer
Dr Anne KILGALLEN Chief Executive, Western Health and Social Care Trust For services to Healthcare especially during COVID-19
Kevin KINGSTON Chief Executive Officer, Danske Bank For services to Financial Services during COVID-19
Bear MONTIQUE Interim Chief Executive Officer, Standing Together Against Domestic Violence and Founder, Advance Advocacy Service For services to the prevention of violence against women and girls
Professor Valerie O’DONNELL Professor, Biochemistry & Co-Director, Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University For services to Biochemical Research
Neil PECK Former Attorney and Honorary Consul For services to UK-Colorado relations
Patricia Mawuli PORTER Co-founder and Pilot, Aviation and Technology Academy Ghana For services to Aviation
Roisin QUINN Senior Manager, National Grid For services to the Electricity System, Energy Security and Decarbonisation
Professor Paula REIMER Director, CHRONO Centre for Climate, Environment and Chronology, Queen’s University Belfast For services to Radiocarbon Dating, Calibration and Chronology
Dorothea RŰLAND Secretary General, German Academic Exchange Service For services to the British-German relationship
Darren WALKER President Ford Foundation For services to UK/US relations
Susan WHELAN Chief Executive, Leicester City Football Club For services to Football, the economy in the East Midlands and the wider community in Leicester

Honorary MBE

Name Role Short citation
Sidi’Ahmed ABEIDNA Honorary Consul, Mauritania For services to UK/Mauritania relations and to British nationals in Mauritania
Dr Shehlina AHMED Health Adviser For services to health in Bangladesh
Abdullah Omar Saeed AL-AMOUDY Senior Trade Adviser, British Consulate Jeddah For services to UK/Saudi Arabia Trade relations
Marwan AL-JARAH Counter-Terrorism Programme Support Officer For services to National Security and human rights
Dr Fernando AUDEBERT Professor of Materials, University of Buenos Aires For services to Science co-operation between the UK and Argentina
Jeyathurai AYADURAI Director of The Battle Box, Singapore For services to War Remembrance and Preserving British and Commonwealth Military History in Singapore
Jan BARTU Performance Director, Modern Pentathlon For services to Modern Pentathlon
Manog BISSOONDUTT Humane Society Manager, British Virgin Islands For services to animal welfare within the British Virgin Islands
Cindi BLACK Owner and Director, Great Western pre-school, Aberdeenshire For services to Pre-School Education in Aberdeen
Roberto CASTIGLIONI Disability Rights campaigner For services to Aviation Accessibility
Marcela ČERNOCHOVÁ Managing Director, British Chamber of Commerce For services to British business in the Czech Republic
Barbara CHANTRILL Founder, Leicestershire Education Business Company For services to Education
Professor Daniel CHARNY Designer For services to Design and Creativity
Dr Margaret COFFEY Clinical Service Lead (ENT/Head & Neck), Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust For services to Speech and Language Therapy
Philippe CORRÉA Director of Industrial Relations at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission For services to UK and France Nuclear co-operation
Colette DATT Associate Director, Nursing Children and Young People, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust For services to Nursing
Professor Daniela DE ANGELIS Professor of Statistical Science for Health, University of Cambridge For services to Medical Research and Public Health
Dónal DOHERTY Artistic Director Codetta Choirs For services to Music in Northern Ireland
Professor Murna DOWNS Professor of Dementia Studies, Bradford University For services to the Social Sciences
Major (Rtd) Brian DUFFY Chairman, Royal British Legion, Republic of Ireland Branch For services to UK veterans in Ireland and British/Irish relations
Norihiko FUKUDA Mayor of Kawasaki City For services to the British Olympic and Paralympic Teams
Alison GALVIN Chief People Officer, Invotra Ltd For services to Education
Pierre GOMEZ Data Supervisor Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia For services to Medical Research in The Gambia
Akira HASEYAMA Former President of Keio University For services to the British Olympic and Paralympic Teams
Fumiko HAYASHI Former Mayor of Yokohama For services to the British Olympic and Paralympic Teams
Verena Katharina HEFTI Founder, Leaders Plus For services to Equality
Roberto HERRERA PABLO Country Manager and Board Member of InterEnergy Group For services to Sustainable and Clean Energy
Dr Shafie KAMARUDDIN Deputy Medical Director, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust For services to the NHS
Alena KRAJTLOVA Training Wing Assistant For services to UK International Defence engagement Programmes
Guruswamy KRISHNAMOORTHY Chief Executive Officer, Penlon For services to the Ventilator Challenge
Jean MERBAI ANAK BIJU Senior Jungle Tracker, Jungle Warfare Division For services to UK Defence
Dr Mikael MIKAELSSON Science and Innovation Officer, British Embassy Stockholm For services to International collaboration on Climate Change
Frank MORGAN II President St George’s Society of New York For services to British charities in New York
Sinéad MURPHY Founder and CCO Shnuggle For services to Trade and the Economy in Northern Ireland
Daisy NARAYANAN Lately Director of Urbanism, Sustrans For services to Inclusive Urban Planning
Panayiotis PASHAS Chief Engineer, Sovereign Base Areas, Defence Infrastructure Organisation For services to British Forces Cyprus
Miriam PURVES Nurse, Western Health and Social Care Trust For services to Nursing during COVID-19
Arevik SARIBEKYAN Country Director, British Council in Armenia For services to UK/Armenia Cultural Relations
Elizabeth SCHLACHTER Former Executive Director Family Planning 2020 For services to Women and Reproductive Health
Yasuhisa SHIOZAKI Former Co-Chair of UK-Japan 21st Century Group For services to UK/Japan relations
Lynette SILVER Historian and Author For services to British families of WWII personnel
Yau Kong THAM Military historian, Malaysian conservationist and tour guide in Sabah, Malaysia For services to Environmental, Historical and Cultural Conservation
Takashi TSUKAMOTO Chair, The Japan-British Society For services to UK/Japan relations
Muhidin TUTIC Protocol and Visits Officer, EU Force HQ, Sarajevo For services to UK operations and observed acts of remembrance in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mary VINE-MORRIS Area Director, Association of Colleges, London For services to Further Education
Ronald Claus Julian WEBER Victims Commissioner of the State of Berlin For services to UK/German relations

Honorary BEM

Name Role Short citation
Harry AYCOCK IV President of St George’s Society of Baltimore For services to the St George’s Society in Maryland
Fouad BERRAHOU Logistics Manager, British Embassy, Rabat For services to repatriate British Nationals from Morocco during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joan BRUTON Retired Founder of Light House Trust Summer School For services to the Disabled Community in Ireland
Bruna CERQUEIRA Senior Climate Adviser, British Embassy Brasilia For services to UK interests in Brazil
Brian COLEMAN Founder, Two Touch project For services to Exercise and Well-being for Cardiac patients
Michael CROSSAN Community volunteer For services to the Community in Hertfordshire particularly during COVID-19
Astrid GILLESPIE Leader and Volunteer, Friends of All Saints Church Volunteer Group, East Horndon For services to Community Heritage
Isabelle GOUGET Occupational therapist, Oxford NHS Foundation Trust For services to Occupational Therapy during COVID-19
Fiona HEALY CONNELLY Age UK Westminster Trustee For services to Age UK Westminster
Daniela Anna JENKINS Executive Director, Charlbury Community Centre For services to the community in Charlbury, Oxfordshire
Paresh JETHWA Co-Founder Community Response Kitchen For services to the community in the London Borough of Hendon during COVID-19
Reshmi KALAM Community and NHS volunteer For services to community in Maidstone, Kent during COVID-19
Sotiris KATSIMPAS IT Manager, The Edinburgh Remakery For services to Third Sector Charity during COVID-19
Tarsem KAUR Community volunteer For services to the Community in Handsworth, Birmingham particularly during COVID-19
Ronald LOOF President, Risquons Tous World War 2 Memorial Association For services to the remembrance of British Soldiers who died in Mouscron in 1940
Alan MULLIGAN District Treasurer for the Royal British Legion, Republic of Ireland For services to the Royal British Legion
Thi Bich Ngan NGUYEN Corporate Services Manager, British Embassy Vietnam For services to UK/Vietnam relations
Dr Jennifer RING Counsellor in Psychology For services to Disabled veterans suffering from PTSD and Mental Illness
Frank VOLINSKY Executive Director Bridge Foundation and Beacon of Hope (Cayman) Foundation For services to addiction recovery in the Cayman Islands
Abraham Heinrich WERMUTH Volunteer For services to Holocaust education and awareness
Kun YOON Driver, Corporate Services section, British Embassy Seoul For services to the British Embassy Seoul, Republic of Korea
Kabura ZAKAMA North-East Regional Coordinator, British High Commission Abuja For services to the UK in Nigeria