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THE LORD WATSON OF RICHMOND,
CBE
Alan Watson is Chairman of Burson Marsteller
Europe and Chairman of CTN (Corporate Television Networks).
He advises many major UK and international companies on
their communication strategies and is Chairman of the
Coca-Cola European Advisory Board. He is also Non-Executive
Chairman of the Wine Importer, Raisin Social. His business
career began with four years as CEO of the advertising
agency, Charles Barker City.
In broadcasting Alan became a BBC General Trainee after
Cambridge, and later a regular presenter with “The
Money Programme” on BBC2 and “Panorama”
on BBC1. He also reported on LWTV, Radio 4 and the BBC
World Service and wrote and presented award winning documentaries
over many years. He is a Fellow and former Chairman of
the Royal Television Society. From 1976 to 1980 he was
responsible for Media at the European Commission.
Chairman of the English Speaking Union for six years he
is now International Chairman Emeritus. In 2005 he was
awarded The Churchill Medal. He is Chairman of the Council
of Commonwealth Societies and a member of the Executive
Committee of the Pilgrims. He is Co-Chair of the Jamestown
1607 – 2007 British Committee. Additionally he is
a member of the Prince of Wales Business Leader’s
Forum.
Internationally he has served on the Executive Board of
UNICEF (UK) and as a member of the European Parliament’s
High Level Group on Romania. In 2004 he was awarded the
Commander’s Grand Cross of the Romanian Order of
Merit.
Alan holds a range of visiting and honorary posts at Universities
in Britain and abroad. For six years he was Chairman of
Governors at Westminster College, Oxford. He is a Visiting
Fellow at Oriel College Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of
Jesus College Cambridge. He chairs the Cambridge University
Chemistry Advisory Board and is a Life Patron of Cambridge’s
Churchill Archives Centre. In 2005 he was appointed Chairman
of The Cambridge Foundation. He is an Honorary Professor
at Birmingham University and a Trustee of the American
International University in London.
Abroad, he has received an Honorary Doctorate from St
Lawrence University USA, a Visiting Professorship at Leuven,
Honorary Professorships from St Petersburg University
and Korea University and is a Trustee of the Great Britain
Study Centre at Berlin’s Humboldt University. In
2005 he was awarded The Loyola Schools Award for Outstanding
Achievement in the Promotion of English by Manila University.
His publications include “Europe at Risk”,
“The Germans: who are they now?” and “Thatcher
and Kohl: Old Rivalries Revisited”.
A former President of the Liberal Party, he was appointed
CBE in 1985 and created a Life Peer in 1999. He is a Member
of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European
Union.
In 1995 he received the German Order of Merit for his
“significant and enduring contribution” to
understanding between Germany and Britain. In 2001 he
was promoted to the Grand Cross of the Order. He is British
Chairman of the Königswinter Anglo-German Conference
and President of the British German Association.
He is a Patron of The Richmond Society and of the Richmond
Museum, Chairman of the Father Thames Trust and Chairman
of the Arcadia Advisory Board and Patron of The Richmond
in Europe Association.
Lord Watson is married and has two sons. He was educated
at Diocesan College Preparatory School Cape Town, Kingswood
School Bath and Jesus College Cambridge. He lives in Richmond
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