Professor Noel Lloyd, Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University, has been awarded the CBE for services to Higher Education in Wales in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list which was published yesterday, Saturday 12 June 2010.
The announcement has been welcomed by Sir Emyr Jones Parry, President of Aberystwyth University: “We welcome this much deserved recognition of Professor Lloyd’s conspicuous contribution to Aberystwyth University, both as Vice-Chancellor and previously as Registrar. This honour reflects not just the huge contribution to Aberystwyth, but the role he plays as Chair of Higher Education Wales”, he said.
Professor Lloyd said: “It is a great honour for me personally to receive this award. It also reflects an appreciation of the contribution that Aberystwyth University and Higher Education in Wales have made, and continue to make, both culturally and economically.”
“It is particularly apt that the announcement coincides with Universities Week (14th – 20th June) which will be a celebration of the wide and varied roles universities play in communities across Wales and the UK”, he added.
Professor Lloyd was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth in 2004, having previously been Registrar and Secretary, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Dean of Science and Head of the Department of Mathematics.
He graduated in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, completed his PhD there and was Research Fellow at St John’s College. His research interests are in Nonlinear Analysis and Dynamical Systems.
He has served on various Research Council committees and editorial boards, and was editor of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society from 1983 to 1988. He has been a member of the HEFCW Quality Assurance Committee, and was a member of the board of the mid-Wales TEC and then of the mid-Wales ELWa Regional Committee.
At present he is Chair of HEW (Higher Education Wales), and a Vice-President of Universities UK. He is a member of the board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), chairing its Health and Safety Committee and the board of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), chairing the Access Recognition and Licensing Committee.
Professor Lloyd was Secretary of Capel y Morfa, Aberystwyth from 1989 to 2004 and has served as chair of the Church and Society Board of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. He is a Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London.
