Staff and students are invited to attend our first Distinguished Lecture of the Spring term to hear Sir Roger Carr, Chairman of BAE Systems plc. with his talk entitled ‘The Defence Industry: A moving target’.
The event will take place on Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 17:30 in Lecture Theatre 1, Building 45/0045, Highfield Campus.
Sir Roger Carr is also a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group and a senior advisor to KKR – the world’s largest private equity company. In addition, he is a Visiting Fellow of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Throughout his career he has served on a number of external committees including the Manufacturing Council of the CBI, The Higgs Committee on Corporate Governance and Business for New Europe. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturers & Commerce, a Companion of the Institute of Management, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.
He was knighted for Services to Business in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list 2011.