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We welcome five of our past President's to mark the 150th Anniversary of IET this year

Duration: 49 mins
Publication date: 28 Jun 2021

Abstract

Dickon Ross - E&T Editor in Chief talks to 5 of the IET's past President's to mark the 150th Anniversay.

Keywords:: #IET@150

150th Anniversary

IET Presidents

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Speakers

Sir David Brown

IET President 2003

Sir David is a prominent figure in the telecommunications and electronics industry, with a career that has included senior roles at Plessey, STC, ICL, Northern Telecom and Motorola. As well as holding the Chairmanship of Motorola, the British Standards Institution and several industry groups, he has also chaired a number of high-level government advisory bodies. A Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Sir David was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the Federation of the Electronics Industry, and founding President of the Chartered Quality Institute.His interests include the promotion of links between engineering and education, speaking extensively on the subject nationwide. He has Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Kingston, Portsmouth and Surrey, is a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford University, and was awarded the Mountbatten Medal for his leadership contributions to electronics. He was Knighted in 2001 for services to British Industry.
Naomi Climer

IET President 2015

Naomi Climer CBE FREng, FIET is a British engineer who has worked in broadcast, media and communications technology chiefly at the BBC and Sony Professional Solutions, and was the first female President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Sir John O'Reilly

Chairman, NICC (Standards) Ltd, IET President 2004

Leadership roles in research, innovation and higher education policy and practice; Research and technology background in the broad field of ICT embracing industry (Ultra Electronics, BT), academia (Essex, Bangor, UCL) and government labs (Royal Radar Establishment, Post Office Research Centre); experience in SME sector (CEO IDB Ltd,Chair CAST Ltd, NICC Ltd); Experience of research policy and funding ( BIS, EPSRC, ERC (EU), A*STAR/SERC (Singapore), DTI)
Sir Robin Saxby

IET President 2006

Sir Robin is a technology entrepreneur most known for his work as ARM Holdings’ founding CEO and Chairman. Under his leadership, ARM become the world’s leading semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) company with ARM chips becoming the most prolific on our planet. He guided ARM from start-up through flotation on NASDAQ and the LSE in 1998 before retiring in 2007.Robin first became interested in technology aged 8 and at 13, was running his own radio and TV repair business which lead him to study Electronic Engineering at the University of Liverpool.Sir Robin’s early career was in electronic design with Rank Bush Murphy and Pye TMC followed by 13 years with Motorola Semiconductors. Prior to his time at ARM, Robin served as the Managing Director of ES2 Ltd. and was the CEO of Henderson Security Systems. In addition to his day-to-day work, Robin served as Chairman of the Open Microprocessor Initiative (an ESPRIT panel advising on the collaborative R&D across Europe). He is a past President of the IET.Robin was knighted in 2002 for services to the information technology industry, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002 and Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015. He is a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool, and regularly mentors new entrepreneurs and serves as an angel investor and advisor to several UK-headquartered high-tech companies. His hobbies include skiing, tennis, painting and music.
Professor William Webb

IET President 2014

William is a highly experienced strategist, technologist and Board member. His experience spans industry, Government and academia and roles include CTO, CSO, CEO, Board Chairman, consultant and advisor. He has worked for companies from start-ups he co-founded to Motorola and now acts as a trusted advisor, strategist and change-agent for CEOs, senior Government members and others.His skills lie in bringing about change and innovation in areas where technology and strategy intertwine and where influencing both individuals and wider audiences is important. This has included devising and implementing new strategies for managing the UK’s radio spectrum, bring Europe’s largest Engineering Institution into the 21st Century, forming a standards body and bringing a range of key industry players onto the Board and advising Secretaries of State and University Vice Chancellors.Widely renown as one of the most intelligent and capable individuals in the communications arena, he gained the top first class honours degree from the top University in Electronics in the UK. He was one of the youngest Fellows ever elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering, the youngest President of the IET for a century and has been awarded three honorary doctorates and three visiting Professorships and in 2018 the IET's highest medal - the Mountbatten Award.He has huge commercial experience, starting with an MBA, advising the CEO of Motorola, being part of the Senior Management Team at Ofcom, starting a Cambridge-based high-tech company subsequently sold to Huawei for $25m, and forming and acting as CEO of a standards body. At the IET he was the President where he chaired the Board of Trustees.He has built a successful portfolio career which a CEO role, member of multiple advisory boards and prestige consulting services. He is available for consultancy and longer-term positions.Specialties: Wireless, cellular, spectrum, regulation, standardisation, M2M
Dickon Ross

IET, Editor in Chief