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Honorary awards to foreign nationals in 2020

Updated 7 June 2021

The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the following honorary British awards in 2020:

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)

Level	Award	Name	Job title	Short citation
Order of the British Empire	Honorary KBE	Esa-Pekka SALONEN	Principal Conductor, London Philharmonia Orchestra	For services to music and UK/Finnish Relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary CBE	Shaun Timothy KELLY	Former Global Chief Operating Officer for KPMG International	For services to economic development in Northern Ireland
Order of the British Empire	Honorary CBE	Francisco J. RIBERAS MERA	Executive Chairman, Gestamp	For services to the UK automotive industry
Order of the British Empire	Honorary CBE	Pia Randbo Jepsen WILKES	Chief Executive, Vehicle Certification Agency	For services to motor transport
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Nadim ABBOUD	Honorary Legal Adviser to the British Embassy in Beirut	For services to British interests in Lebanon
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Ramón ALEJANDRO	Chairman, Saica	For services to the UK environmental sector
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Eduardo EURNEKIAN	President, Corporación América	For services to UK/Argentina relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Florence GARABEDIAN	Chair, Self-Directed Support Scotland and Chief Executive, Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living	For services to the independent living movement
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	HAYASHI Haruki	Regional Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation, Europe and Africa and Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation International (Europe) plc	For services to UK/Japan commercial and cultural relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	John Curt MINGÉ	Former President, BP America	For services to British business in the United States of America
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Christos PSALTIS	Senior Political Officer, British Embassy, Athens	For services to UK/Greece relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Renata Leal da Silva RAMALHOSA	Department for International Trade Foreign Direct Investment Latin America and Deputy Consul General, Sao Paulo	For services to Her Majesty’s Government overseas
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Gerald Arthur ROLPH	Owner of Allerton Castle	For services to historic preservation and conservation
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Peter SLOSSE	Director of Tourism, Ypres	For services to UK commemorations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	André Franciszek SPITZMAN JORDAN	World Fellow of and volunteer for the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation	For services to the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Hazel Elizabeth WINNING	Lead Allied Health Professions Officer, Department of Health, Northern Ireland Executive	For services to health and social care
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Rowaida Abdulmajid Saeed KHULAIDI	Country Director, British Council Yemen	For services to UK/Yemen cultural relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary OBE	Zaza PURTSELADZE	Director, British Council, South Caucasus	For services to UK/Georgia cultural relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Daphine AIKENS	Founder and Chief Executive, Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank	For services to the community in Hammersmith and Fulham
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Lisa Sophie BECHNER	Chairwoman of Kindertransport Organisation Germany	For services to UK-German relations and the British commemoration of the Kindertransport rescue effort prior to the Second World War
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Maria Alice BUCKLEY O’CARROLL	Director of Midwifery, Women and Children, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	For services to midwifery
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Suzanne Bridget CHEASTY-HIGGINS	Lead Volunteer, Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church, Kentish Town, London	For voluntary and charitable services to homeless people in the London Borough of Camden
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Daniel CORDIER	Second World War Resistance Fighter	For services to the United Kingdom in the Second World War
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Izabella Maria CWETSCH	British Vice Consul, British Embassy, Warsaw, Poland	For services British nationals in Poland
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Werner FENNER	Transport and Logistics Officer, British Embassy, Brasilia	For services to UK interests in Brazil
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Alfredo Emilio FIERRO GONFIOTTI	Director, Department for International Trade Argentina, British Embassy, Buenos Aires	For services to international trade
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Mark Darren FITZGERALD	Technical Supervisor, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Malta	For services to Commonwealth war graves
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Hubert GERMAIN	Second World War Resistance Fighter	For services to the United Kingdom in the Second World War
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	The Reverend Cannon Faez JERJES	Parish Priest, St Georges Episcopal Anglican Church, Baghdad	For services to the Anglican, Christian and local community in Baghdad
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Maria Leonor Ribeiro da Fonseca Calixto MACHADO DE SOUSA	Retired Professor. Founder and Head, Anglo-Portuguese Studies Department, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. First Female Head of the National Library	For services to UK/Portuguese Studies and academic relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	John Níall Gearoid MCLAUGHLIN	Architect	For services to architecture
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Mohammed Rasool MOHIBZADA	Resources Officer, British Council, Afghanistan	For services to the security and communications of the British Council in Afghanistan
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Eva Maria PRADA	Director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain	For services to British business in Spain
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Tanazzeena QURESHI	International Pension Service Officer, British High Commission, Dhaka, Bangladesh	For services to Her Majesty’s Government service delivery overseas
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Francisco RODILLA BENITO	Spanish Technical Director, member of Secondary SMT and teacher of Philosophy, Religion and History	For services to the development of bilingual education and UK-Spanish relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Dr Juan José SEGURA SAMPEDRO	Medical Doctor, PhD, General and Digestive Surgery Department, Son Espases University Hospital, Mallorca. Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Balearic Islands University	For services to British visitors to Spain
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Pierre SIMONET	Second World War Resistance Fighter	For services to the United Kingdom in the Second World War
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Angela Marie TANZILLO-SWARTS	Forensic DNA Specialist, Health Services Authority, Cayman Islands	For services to the COVID-19 Response in the Cayman Islands
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Edgard TUPËT-THOMÉ	Second World War Resistance Fighter	For services to the United Kingdom in the Second World
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Erwin UREEL	Vice Chairman, Friends of the Passchendaele Museum and Events Organiser	For services to commemorations of the British contribution to the defence of Belgium in the First World War
Order of the British Empire	Honorary MBE	Martin Henderson WELLS	President, the British Hospital, Montevideo	For services to the British community in Uruguay
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Pa Assan BADJAN	Emergency Services Porter, Royal London Hospital Emergency Department	For services to the NHS
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Nitcha BOONRUNGREUNG	Office Manager, Department for International Trade Thailand, British Embassy, Bangkok	For services to the British business community in Thailand
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Sarah Jane Pauline Theresa CASEY	Community Volunteer, Hulme, Manchester	For services to the community in Hulme, Mancheste
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Haluk Metin ÇEKIRDEK	Protocol and Customs Officer, British Embassy, Ankara	For services to the British Embassy, Ankara
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Peter DONNELLY	Paramedic	For services to the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Onyinye Aureola ENWEZOR	Shared Governance Clinical Educator, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	For services to the NHS
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Linus Prodip GOMES	Head Bearer/Butler, British High Commissioner’s residence, Dhaka	For services to the UK/Bangladesh relations
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Ashraf HAMIDO DESOUKI	Chair, A Better Tomorrow community group	For service to supporting refugees and asylum seekers in Halton Borough during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Dušan MIHAJILOVIĆ	Head of Political and Public Diplomacy, British Embassy, Belgrade	For services to British Interests in Serbia and Commemoration of the First World War
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Muhammad NOR ALI BIN ABDULLAH	Protocol and Logistics Manager, British High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	For services to the British High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Bukola Muhydeen OLAMIJUWON	Welfare Secretary, Nasrul-Lahi-L-Faith Society (Nasfat) Millwall Branch	For services to Nasfat UK and Ireland during COVID-19
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Silvana Lucia PIGA	Responsible de Colecciones Especiales y Archivos	For services to enhancing awareness of the 200-year British presence in Argentina
Order of the British Empire	Honorary BEM	Patricia SIMOYI	Nurse, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	For services to chronic kidney disease

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Military Division)

Level	Award	Name	Job title	Short citation
Order of the British Empire	Honorary KBE	Joseph DUNFORD	Retired General and Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Military	For services to the support of the UK military