Alison Carnwath awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws at the 2010 Graduation ceremony

Professor Ginny Gibson, Head of the School of Real Estate & Planning was very pleased to present Alison Carnwath for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws at the 2010 Graduation ceremony. Alison has been named by Times Power 100 as one of the top 100 most influential Directors in the UK and is one of only 3 women to be Chair of a FTSE 100 company having, in 2008, taken up the reins at Land Securities, Britain's most valuable quoted property company.

Alison is considered to be one of the busiest directors in the FTSE 100 with other significant roles in corporations in both the UK and US and has recently been appointed to one of the most senior banking roles in the UK as a non executive director for Barclays, a position she will take up in August this year. Alison still finds time to be involved with the charitable sector sitting on the development boards of the Royal Society of Arts and The Healing Foundation and is a Woolf Patron of the British Library and a Pioneer Donor of the Reading Real Estate Foundation - Real Estate & Planning's alumni association.

Professor Gibson summed up saying 'Alison Carnwath epitomises what we seek for every Reading graduate… individuals who have the confidence and enthusiasm to fulfil their personal ambitions and seek to make a difference in the world in which they live'.