Heriot-Watt University

Honorary Graduate Profiles

Dr Robert Pieraccini

Director of Engineering for the Google Assistant in Zurich

Dr Steven Cooper

Chief Executive Officer of C. Hoare & Co. the UK’s oldest and most prestigious Private Bank

Mrs Alison Watson

Founder and Chief Executive of social business Class Of Your Own

Professor Alex Balfour

Pioneering Mathematics and Computer Science Academic

Professor Anne Neville

RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies and Professor of Tribology and Surface Engineering,University of Leeds

Sir Bob Reid

Board of Directors of Diligenta Limited, Belltree Group UK and EEA Helicopter Operations

Professor David Teece

Chairman and Principal Executive Officer at Berkeley Research Group

Dr Tony Strachan

Former Deputy Chair of Heriot-Watt University

Mrs Elizabeth Rio Watt

Former Governor and Heriot-Watt University Court Member

Mr Emad Azmy

President of Al Shafar General Contracting (ASGC)

Professor George Stewart

Reservoir Engineering Expert and Founder R G Stewart Consulting Ltd

Mr Paul Rennie

Director for Diplomacy and Networks at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Mr Peter Gerard Schunemann

Researcher in developing mid-infrared nonlinear optical crystals

Mr Saif Humaid Al Falasi

Chairman of Gulf Energy Maritime

Professor Onno J. Boxma

Professor of Stochastic Operations Research, Eindhoven University of Technology

Mr Patrick J. Grant

Creative Director, Norton & Sons and E.Tautz

Professor Dr Ursula Keller

Tenured Professor of Physics at ETH Zurich

Professor Maria J. Esteban

President of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Professor Sir John McCanny

Regius Professor (Emeritus) of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Shonaig Macpherson

Chair of the Robertson Trust

Dr William Lumsden

Director of Distilling, Whisky Creation and Whisky Stocks, Glenmorangie Company

Dato' Yeoh Seok Kian

Managing Director, YTL Corporation Berhad

Key information

Lynsey Cockburn