Honorary awards for business icons from CMI, Fujitsu and David Brown plc

Honorary Doctorates of the University were conferred on Ann Francke, Simon Blagden CBE and Chris Brown OBE

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Honorary Doctorates of the University were conferred on Ann Francke, CEO of the Chartered Management Institute; Simon Blagden CBE, whose roles include the chairmanship of IT giant Fujitsu; and Chris Brown OBE, a business executive who co-led a buy-in to the Huddersfield-based David Brown Group plc in 1990 and who has recently stood down after a long spell chairing the University of Huddersfield’s governing council. You can view them receiving their awards and hear their inspirational speeches delivered to the students graduating from the Business School in the video.

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