David Davies (electrical engineer)


Sir David Evan Naunton Davies is a British electrical engineer and educator. He was knighted for services to science and technology in the 1994 New Year Honours.
1985-1988: Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London, and holder of the Pender Chair, having already been lecturing there, in Communications Systems, for many years prior to that.
1986-1988: Vice-Provost of University College London
1988-1993: Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University
1993–1999: Chief Scientific Adviser for the Ministry of Defence
1994-1995: President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
1996-2001, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
He has subsequently been Chairman of Railway Safety, a non-executive director of Lattice plc, a non-executive director of The ERA Foundation, Chairman of the Hazards Forum, and safety advisor to the Board of National Grid plc.

Awards and honours

The Sir David Davies building at Loughborough University, housing the electrical engineering department, is now named after him.