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IQE appoints Dr. David Grant as Sr. independent director

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CARDIFF, UK: Semiconductor wafer products and services supplier, IQE has appointed Dr. David Grant as a Non-Executive Director and as Senior Independent Director of the Group. Dr. David Grant, 65, gained his PhD in Engineering Science from Durham University in 1974.

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Following a period with Reyrolle Parsons Automation designing power station control and instrumentation systems, Dr Grant was appointed Technical Director of a European subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation.

In 1984 Dr Grant took up an appointment as Managing Director of Dowty Electronics Ltd., and in 1988 he became Technical Director of the Dowty Group.

His last industrial appointment commenced in 1991, as Technical Director of GEC plc, with responsibility for engineering, research and technology development in an £11bn turnover international company employing 25,000 engineers and spending £1.2bn per annum on product development and technology. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University in October 2001. He retired from the post in August this year.

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Dr Grant is actively involved in engineering professional development and has been a Council member and Vice President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE, now IET).  He was awarded the IEE's Mensforth Gold Medal in 1996.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1997, and in the same year was made a CBE for his contribution to the UK's Foresight Programme.

Dr Grant was a Council member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC, from 2000 until 2006. In 2007 he was appointed a governing board member of the Technology Strategy Board.

In 2012 he was appointed a non-executive director of DSTL, the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. Dr Grant was a Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering from 2007 to 2012. In 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Science Engineering Technology Mathematics Network, a UK-wide organisation that promotes Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics in schools.

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