Sir David Evan Naunton Davies CBE FIEE FRS FREng DSc FLSW (born 28 October 1935) is a British electrical engineer and educator, knighted for services to science and technology in the 1994 New Year Honours.^[2]

Career

• 1985–1988: Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), 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

He has subsequently been Chairman of Railway Safety, a non-executive director of Lattice plc, a non-executive director of The ERA Foundation,^[3] Chairman of the Hazards Forum (2002-2010), and safety advisor to the Board of National Grid plc.

Voluntary roles

• 1994–1995: President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
• 1996–2001, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering^[4]

Awards and honours

• CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire),
• Knight Bachelor
• FREng (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering),
• FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society)
• Faraday Medal, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1987^[5]
• Received an honorary doctorate from University of Bath in 1997^[6]
• Received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1999^[7]
• FLSW (Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales), 2010^[8]

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