Education
He earned a Bachelor of Science from the London Polytechnic in 1964 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham in 1968.
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Alan Rudge
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He was Chairman of the European Research Area Foundation from its formation until December 2012, after which he was appointed as the Foundation’s President. In 2012 he also stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Management of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, a position he had held for eleven years. He had succeeded Sir Denis Rooke and was himself succeeded by Bernard Taylor.
He was head of operations at British Telecommunications.
He was Chairman of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He is a past President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and was Chairman of the Engineering Council.
He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1984. He was until July 2014 Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director on the board of Experian PLC
In 1994 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
He chose the subject "Multimedia and the Information Superhighway".
In 1995, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.
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Royal Society.
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