IChemE President awarded Commander of the British Empire

06-19-2009: IChemE President, Ian Shott has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in recognition of his services to the chemical engineering industry.

Shott is founder and CEO of pharmaceutical services company, Excelsyn and has held a range of senior executive positions in the international pharmaceutical and fine chemicals industries for over 20 years. He is also Chairman of both the Centre for Excellence for Life Sciences (CELS) and the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation & Growth Team. He became IChemE President in May 2009 having previously served as the Institution’s Deputy President and Technical Vice-President.

Shott was one of four chemical engineering names recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list this weekend: Professor Bill Wakeham, Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University was awarded a Knighthood for services to chemical engineering and higher education. Professor Lynn Gladden, head of chemical engineering and biotechnology at Cambridge University was awarded a CBE for services to chemical engineering. And, Professor Robert Burch, former head of chemistry and chemical engineering at Queens College, Belfast was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for services to Chemistry.