Prof Dame Julia King, DBE

Vice-Chancellor, Aston University

Dame Julia King joined Rolls-Royce plc in 1994 having spent 16 years as an academic researcher and lecturer at Cambridge and Nottingham universities. She became chief executive of the Institute of Physics in 2002 before returning to academia in 2004 as the principal of the Engineering Faculty at Imperial College London and vice-chancellor of Aston University in 2006. King was elected to fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1997 and is frequently called upon by the government for advice on education and technology issues. She is a member of the Committee on Climate Change, is the UK government’s Low Carbon Business ambassador, and was awarded a DBE in 2012 for services to higher education and technology. She cites her mother as her inspiration as she ‘believed women could do anything.’

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