Honorary Graduates

Meet Edinburgh Napier University’s Honorary Graduates

Graduations: Principal Sue Rigby's inauguration

July 2025

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All ENU Honorary Graduates

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Business and Entrepreneurship

Stephen Ingledew, Doctor of the University (2024)
Paul Atkinson, Doctor of the University (2022)
Robert Keiller, Doctor of Enterprise (2022)
Neil Rackham, Doctor of Business Administration (2017)
Michael Welch, Doctor of Enterprise (2016)
Jann Brown, Doctor of Business Administration (2015)
Tanya Ewing, Doctor of Technology (2014)
Peter Ka Kit Lee, Doctor of Business Administration (2014)
Barry Buttifant, Doctor of Business Administration (2013)
Sandy Crombie, Doctor of Business Administration (2013)
Susan Haughey, Doctor of Business Administration (2013)
James Hunter, Doctor of Business (2013)
James Milne, Doctor of Business Administration (2013)
Obe Mohan, Doctor of the University (2013)
Steven Cordiner, Doctor of Technology (2012)
Geoffrey Day, Doctor of Business Administration (2012)
Gary Kildare, Doctor of the University (2012)
John Cumming, Doctor of Business Administration (2010)
Jack Perry, Doctor of Business Administration (2010)
Andrew Rickman, Doctor of Science (2010)
Michael Rutterford, Doctor of Business Administration (2010)
Douglas Anderson, Doctor of Business Administration (2009)
Lawrence Ho, Doctor of Business Administration (2009)
David Watt, Doctor of Business Administration (2009)
Gio Benedetti, Doctor of Business Administration (2008)
Ann Budge, Doctor of Technology (2008)
Jamie Moffat, Doctor of Business Administration (2006)
Wali Uddin, Doctor of the University (2007)
Gerald Weisfeld, Doctor of Business Administration (2007)
Vera Weisfeld, Doctor of Business Administration (2007)
George Cautherley, Doctor of Business Administration (2006)
Bill Gammell, Doctor of Business Administration (2005)
Ann Gloag, Doctor of the University (2005)
Jim Spowart, Doctor of Business Administration (2005)
Robert Wiseman, Doctor of Business Administration (2004)
Jim McColl, Doctor of Business Administration (2003)
Brigadier Sidney Robertson, Doctor of Letters (2002)
Ronald Miller, Doctor of the University (2001)
David Simpson, Doctor of Business Administration (2001)
Gerard Eadie, Doctor of Business Administration (2000)
Gavin Masterton, Doctor of Business Administration (2000)
Ian Grant, Doctor of Business Administration (1999)
Stephen Riady, Doctor of Business Administration (1999)
Barry Sealey, Doctor of the University (1999)
John Shaw, Doctor of Education (1999)
David Tweedie, Doctor of Letters (1999)
George Borthwick, Doctor of Engineering (1998)
William Purves, Doctor of Business Administration (1998)
Lindsay Stewart, Doctor of the University (1998)
Antony Bridge, Doctor of the University (1996)
Ian Tomlin, Doctor of Letters (1996)
Gordon Baxter, Doctor of Business Administration (1994)
Alistair Grant, Doctor of Business Administration (1994)
Stephen Ho, Doctor of Business Administration (1994)
Iain Vallance, Doctor of Science (1994)
Tom Farmer, Doctor of Business Administration (1993)
John Ward, Doctor of Science (1993)
Charles Fraser, Doctor of Laws (1992)
Ranald Noel-Paton, Doctor of Business Administration (1991)
Michael Herries, Doctor of Business Administration (1990)
David Nickson, Doctor of Business Administration (1990)
Robin Duthie, Doctor of Technology (1989)

Construction and Architecture

Mark Naysmith, Doctor of Engineering (2018)
Peter Bonfield, Doctor of Engineering (2017)
Dave Baker, Doctor of Engineering (2013)
Jeremy Beeton, Doctor of Engineering (2013)
Roger O S Miller, Doctor of the University (2011)
Terry Farrell, Doctor of Design (2009)
Wilf Stevenson, Doctor of Arts (2008)
Stewart Milne, Doctor of Technology (2007)
John Kissock, Doctor of Engineering (2006)
Keith Miller, Doctor of Engineering (2005)
Benedetta Tagliabue, Doctor of Arts (2004)
Michael Walker, Doctor of Technology (2003)
Allan Proctor, Doctor of Technology (2002)
Peter McKinlay, Doctor of Business Administration (1999)
Jerome O'Hea, Doctor of Science (1998)
Bill McAlpine, Doctor of Business Administration (1997)
John Richards, Doctor of the University (1996)
Fraser Morrison, Doctor of Technology (1995)
Adam Currie, Doctor of Technology (1988)

Creative Arts and Design

Moray Callum, Doctor of Design (2022)
Duncan Wardle, Doctor of Business Administration (2019)
Barbara Rae, Doctor of Arts (1999)

Cultural

Alexander Poots, Doctor of Arts (2024)
Jenny Brown, Doctor of the University (2023)
Nicky Wilson, Doctor of the University (2023)
David Allfrey, Doctor of Business Administration (2022)
Jim Haynes, Doctor of Arts (2018)
Robert Currie, Doctor of Arts (2013)
James Holloway, Doctor of Arts (2013)
Gordon Rintoul, Doctor of the University (2013)
Catherine Lockerbie, Doctor of Letters (2008)
Graham Forbes, Doctor of the University (2006)
Brian McMaster, Doctor of Arts (2002)
Finn Andersen, Doctor of Letters (2000)

Education

Sally Brown, Doctor of Education (2017)
Lesley Yellowlees, Doctor of Science (2016)
Diana Laurillard, Doctor of Education (2015)
Anne Brobbel, Doctor of Education (2013)
Chack Fan Lee, Doctor of Science (2013)
Rowena Arshad, Doctor of Education (2010)
Jane Lee, Doctor of Business Administration (2010)
Alice Brown, Doctor of Laws (2009)
Charles Wong, Doctor of Education (2009)
William Hardcastle, Doctor of Science (2007)
David Li, Doctor of Business Administration (2007)
Tony Watts, Doctor of the University (2005)
Enoch Young, Doctor of the University (HK) (2005)
David Edward, Doctor of Laws (1998)
Tom Johnston, Doctor of Letters (1997)
John Cowan, Doctor of Education (1996)
Jack Earls, Doctor of Education (1996)
William Turmeau, Doctor of Education (1995)
David Semple, Doctor of Education (1993)
Cheng-Kung Yu, Doctor of Science (1993)
Lewis Robertson, Doctor of Business Administration, (1992)
James Munn, Doctor of Education (1989)

Engineering

Carol Marsh, Doctor of the University (2023)
David Quarmby, Doctor of Engineering (2008)
Peter Grant, Doctor of Engineering (2007)
Peter Hughes, Doctor of Engineering (2005)
Joseph Helszajn, Doctor of Engineering (2004)
Jeffrey Collins, Doctor of Engineering (1997)
John Parnaby, Doctor of Engineering (1997)
David Rhodes, Doctor of Science (1995)
Norman Irons, Doctor of Letters (1993)
David Bowman, Master of Technology (1991)
Donald McCallum, Doctor of Science (1986)

Film and Television

Douglas Mackinnon (2024)
Neville Kidd, Doctor of Arts (2022)
Iain Smith, Doctor of Arts (2016)
Nigel Planer, Doctor of Arts (2013)
Sharmila Tagore, Doctor of Arts (2012)
Sean Connery, Doctor of the University (2009)
Brian Cox, Doctor of the University (2008)
Allan Shiach, Doctor of Arts (2007)
John Gray, Doctor of Arts (2006)
Lynne Ramsay, Doctor of Arts (2006)
Matilda Swinton, Doctor of Arts (2006)
Robert Carlyle, Doctor of Arts (2002)

Healthcare

Tim Hodgetts, Doctor of the University (2025)
Anne Marie Rafferty, Doctor of Nursing (2023)
Hugh McKenna, Doctor of Nursing (2016)
John Arbuthnott, Doctor of Science (2013)
Ming Chen Robertson, Doctor of the University (2007)
Alison Tierney, Doctor of Nursing (2004)
Peter Donnelly, Doctor of Science (2003)
John Gordon McVie, Doctor of Science (2003)
Anne Jarvie, Doctor of Nursing (2000)
Jennifer Hunt, Doctor of Science (1999)
Evelyn Mitchell, Doctor of Education (1998)
Naren Patel of Dunkeld, Doctor of Science (1997)

Hospitality and Tourism

Hari Harilela, Doctor of Business Administration (2012)
Tom Kitchin, Doctor of Arts (2012)
Suborno Bose, Doctor of Business Administration (2008)
James Thomson, Doctor of the University (2006)
Peter Taylor, Doctor of Business Administration (2002)
Reo Stakis, Doctor of Arts (1991)

Law

Elish Angiolini, Doctor of Laws (2024)
Joe Morrow, Doctor of Law (2016)
Roger Hood, Doctor of Laws (2011)
John Sturrock, Doctor of Laws (2010)
Andrew Cubie, Doctor of the University (2009)
Lynda Clark, Doctor of Laws (2007)
Hazel Cosgrove, Doctor of Laws (1997)
James Clyde, Doctor of Letters (1995)

Literature and Publishing

Alison Bowden, Doctor of Letters (2019)
Louise Welsh, Doctor of Arts (2015)
Zhenning Nie, Doctor of Letters (2014)
Chris Brookmyre, Doctor of Letters (2010)
John Calder, Doctor of Letters (2008)
Alexander McCall Smith, Doctor of Letters (2005)
Iain Banks, Doctor of Letters (2003)
Joanne Rowling, Doctor of Letters (2000)
Janet Balfour of Burleigh, Doctor of Letters (1999)
Patricia Barker, Doctor of Letters (1996)

Media and Journalism

James Matthews, Doctor of the University (2025)
Lorraine Kelly, Doctor of Arts (2018)
Allan Little, Doctor of Arts (2018)
Alan Clements, Doctor of Arts (2014)
Margaret Ford, Doctor of Business Administration (2008)
Brian Taylor, Doctor of Letters (2008)
Stuart Cosgrove, Doctor of Arts (2006)
Andrea Mitchell, Doctor of Letters (2005)
James Boyle, Doctor of Arts (2002)
James Naughtie, Doctor of Letters (2002)
Richard Holloway, Doctor of Letters (2000)
Andrew Neil, Doctor of Letters (1998)
Daniel Bell, Doctor of Letters (1997)
Angus Macdonald of Tradeston, Doctor of Letters (1997)
Magnus Linklater, Doctor of Arts (1994)
Magnus Magnusson, Doctor of Letters (1994)

Music

Anna Meredith, Doctor for Music (2022)
Richard Jobson, Doctor of Arts (2013)
Craig Armstrong, Doctor of Music (2009)
Evelyn Glennie, Doctor of Music (2009)
Bert Jansch, Doctor of Music (2007)
Peter Maxwell Davies, Doctor of Music (2005)
Carol Grigor, Doctor of Arts (2003)
Jose Carreras, Doctor of Arts (2000)
Charles Mackerras, Doctor of Music (2000)

Photography

David Eustace, Doctor of Arts (2013)
Doug Allan, Doctor of Arts (2009)
Albert Watson, Doctor of Arts (2003)

Police Service and Armed Forces

Gill Imrey, Doctor of the University (2022)
Tom Nelson, Doctor of Science (2013)
David Garbutt, Doctor of Law (2000)
John Napier III, Doctor of the University (2000)

Politics and Government

Talat Yaqoob, Doctor of the University (2025)
Alex Linkston, Doctor of the University (2024)
Karen Edgar, Doctor of the University (2013)
Jim Mather, Doctor of Science (2013)
Anil Kumar Anand, Doctor of the University (2012)
Ji Bin, Doctor of Business Administration (2008)
Tam Dalyell, Doctor of the University (2004)
Chen Haosu, Doctor of Letters (2004)
Vaclav Klaus, Doctor of the University (2004)
Russell Sanderson of Bowden, Doctor of the University (2001)
Mary Goudie, Doctor of Law (2000)
Russell Hillhouse, Doctor of Letters (1999)
Eric Milligan, Doctor of Business Administration (1999)
William Reid, Doctor of Letters (1998)
Malcolm Rifkind, Doctor of Laws (1998)
Jimmy McGregor, Doctor of Letters (1995)
Francis Napier, Doctor of Letters (1994)
Shirley Williams, Doctor of Letters (1994)
Campbell Christie, Doctor of Letters (1993)
George Younger, Doctor of Letters (1992)

Science

Julie Fitzpatrick, Doctor of Science (2017)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Doctor of Science (2015)
Doug Ward, Doctor of Science (2010)
Anne Glover, Doctor of Science (2008)
Alasdair McIntyre Doctor of Science (2005)
Edith Rifkind, Doctor of the University (2002)
William Halcrow, Doctor of Science (2001)
William Stewart, Doctor of Science (1995)
Kathleen Anderson, Doctor of Science (1993)
David Smith, Doctor of Science (1993)

Sport

Robyn Love, Doctor of the University (2025)
Jill Douglas, Doctor of the University (2024)
Richie Gray, Doctor of the University (2024)
Alan Wells, Doctor of Science (2014)
Margot Wells, Doctor of Science (2014)
Jackie Stewart, Doctor of Engineering (2013)
Chris Paterson, Doctor of Science (2012)
Colin McRae, Doctor of the University (2003)
James Telfer, Doctor of Science (2001)

Technology

David Lanc, Doctor of Enterprise (2016)
Kevin Warwick, Doctor of Technology (2015)
Gerry Docherty, Doctor of Technology (2013)
John Howie, Doctor of Technology (2012)
Vinodka Murria, Doctor of Business Administration (2010)
Christiaan van der Kuyl, Doctor of Business Administration (2003)
Crawford Beveridge, Doctor of Business Administration (1999)
George Bennett, Doctor of Technology (1996)

Third Sector

Theresa Shearer, Doctor of the University (2024)
Richard Dixon, Doctor of Science (2019)
Josh Littlejohn, Doctor of Enterprise (2017)
Louise Macdonald, Doctor of the University (2017)
Nina Barough, Doctor of the University (2016)
Garth Morrison, Doctor of Business Administration (2001)

Transport

Ian Craig, Doctor of the University (2014)
Malcolm Buchanan, Doctor of Engineering (2004)
Pierre Laconte, Doctor of Business Administration (1999)
John Cameron, Doctor of Technology (1998)
Tony Ridley, Doctor of Technology (1996)

Stories

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The Stephen Riady Lecture Theatre

Long-time supporter of the University, Dr. Riady makes latest gift to transform 400-seat Business School lecture theatre.

The Stephen Riady Lecture Theatre

Long-time supporter of the University, Dr. Riady makes latest gift to transform 400-seat Business School lecture theatre.

GB Paralympic athlete Robyn Love

Robyn first discovered the sport through her involvement with ENU’s students’ association.

GB Paralympic athlete Robyn Love

Robyn first discovered the sport through her involvement with ENU’s students’ association.

Dr Paul Atkinson

Chair of the Impact Investment Symposium, Dr. Paul Atkinson is contributing to making an impact

Dr Paul Atkinson

Chair of the Impact Investment Symposium, Dr. Paul Atkinson is contributing to making an impact

What does receiving this award mean to you?

Honorary Graduate Jill Douglas answers the question in the video on the right.

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