Sir Alan Rudge | |
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| Chairman,ERA Foundation | |
| In office 2001 – December 2012 | |
| Chairman,ERA Technology | |
| In office 1997–2003 | |
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| Born | Alan Walter Rudge (1937-10-17)17 October 1937 (age 88) London, England |
| Occupation | Electrical engineer |
Sir Alan Walter Rudge (born 17 October 1937, London) is a Britishelectrical engineer. He was Chairman of theERA Foundation from its formation until December 2012, after which he was appointed as the Foundation's President.[1] In 2012 he also stepped down as chairman of the board of Management of theRoyal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, a position he had held for eleven years; he had succeededSir Denis Rooke and was himself succeeded by Bernard Taylor.[2]
He earned a BSc from theLondon Polytechnic in 1964 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from theUniversity of Birmingham in 1968.He was head of operations atBritish Telecommunications.[3]He was Chairman of theEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.He is a past President of theInstitution of Electrical Engineers and was Chairman of theEngineering Council.He was appointed aFellow[4] of theRoyal Academy of Engineering[4] in 1984.
He was until July 2014 deputy chairman and senior independent director on the board ofExperian plc.[5]
In 1994 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to theInstitution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the subject "Multimedia and the Information Superhighway".[6]
In 1995, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science by theUniversity of Bath.[7]
In the New Year Honours list for 2000 he was appointedKnight Bachelor for services to Engineering Research and to Industry.[8]
He is a member of the academic advisory council of theGlobal Warming Policy Foundation, aclimate change denial think tank chaired byNigel Lawson.[9]
In 2010 he organized a petition of 43 denialists (about 3% of the membership) challenging theRoyal Society's "unnecessarily alarmist position" onclimate change. He toldThe Times that "there is a lot of science to be done before we can be certain about climate change and before we impose upon ourselves the huge economic burden of cutting emissions."[10] The revised guidance was published in September 2010[11] and its lead conclusion was "There is strong evidence that changes in greenhouse gas concentrations due to human activity are the dominant cause of the global warming that has taken place over the last half century".[12]
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