Professors Dame Wendy Hall and Sir David Payne head a list of luminaries from the University named amongst the 500 most influential people in the UK for 2017.
Dame Wendy, Sir David and nine others with close ties to the University have made the Debrett’s Most Influential 500 through their influence in shaping the lives, choices and ideas of others.
Dame Wendy and Sir David are joined by Visiting Professor Liam Maxwell alongside Southampton graduate and Chair of Crossrail, Andrew Wolstenholme OBE, on the Debrett’s Most Influential 500 list for Engineering and Technology.
Fellow graduates Justine Greening MP, the UK’s Secretary of State for Education, and Robert Hicks, Managing Director, Explore Learning, feature on Debrett’s list for Education.
World-renowned astrophysicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a former academic at the University in the late 1960s, is listed for Science and Medicine, joined by honorary graduates Sir David Attenborough (Broadcasting), Baroness Martha Lane-Fox of Soho (Digital & Social), Helena Kennedy QC (Law) and Lord Sainsbury of Turville (Philanthropists & Activists).
You can read the full press release here.
