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Introducing Mansfield’s new Honorary Fellows
Dr Maggie Aderin- Pocock MBE
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and BAFTA-nominated broadcaster, presenting the BBC’s The Sky at Night among other programmes. She was a lead scientist at Astrium, a subsidiary of the
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, where she led the optical instrumentation group. She is currently working on and managing the observation instruments for the Aeolus satellite, which will measure wind speeds to help the investigation of climate change.
Maggie is a pioneering figure in communicating science to
the public, specifically school children. She founded and is the Managing Director of Science Innovation Ltd, a company that engages children and adults all over the world with the wonders of space science. She was awarded an MBE in 2009 for services to science and science education.
In 2019 Maggie won Vodafone’s Woman of the Year Innovation Award, and she also sits on the advisory committee for the Young Audience Content Fund at the British Film Institute.
Sir Ian Blatchford
(Jurisprudence, 1983)
Sir Ian Blatchford has been Deputy Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Deputy Finance Director at the Arts Council, and Director of Finance at the Royal Academy of Arts. He was later Director and
Chief Executive at the Science Museum Group and combined this with the role of Director of the Science Museum.
Ian was awarded the Pushkin Medal by the Russian Government in 2015, and received a Knighthood in the 2019 New Year’s Honours for services to Cultural Education. He is currently Chairman of the National Museum Directors’ Council and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
In 2020 we were delighted to announce our seven new Honorary Fellows from the fields of science, culture, law, defence and finance.
General Sir Chris Deverell KCB MBE (PPE, 1979)
After Oxford, General Sir Chris Deverell joined the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, stationed on the inner German border during the Cold War. He spent the first half of his
army service on regimental duty in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Belize, and Germany, interspersed with staff appointments at the head office of the Ministry of Defence and education at staff college and the Royal Military College of Science. This period included service as a Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence, and as the Commanding Officer of the Joint Nuclear Biological and Chemical Regiment.
Promoted to General in 2016, Chris became one of the UK Chiefs of Staff, as Commander Joint Forces Command, with responsibility for Special Forces, Intelligence, Cyber, UK Defence use of Space, Information Systems and Services, Operational Command and Control, Education, Medical Services, and the UK’s military operating bases overseas. He was awarded an MBE in 1990 and appointed Knight Commander of the Order of Bath in 2015. He also has a Diploma from the International Olympic Committee for services to winter sports (bobsleigh and skeleton).
Since retiring from the Army in 2019, Chris has founded Deverell Innovation Ventures to help complex organisations to innovate. He is a Venture Partner in a San Francisco Cybersecurity Platform; a mentor in a seed-stage programme for science-based start-ups at the Saïd Business School; and an External Member of the Council of Oxford University.
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