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Honorary awards to foreign nationals in 2022
Updated 12 April 2023
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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 |