to higher education. David Alan Clarke, Chief Executive, Assured Food Standards. For services to the British food and farming industry. Blondel Bernadette Rosceilia Cluff, Member, Royal Mint Advisory Committee and Chief Executive, West India Committee. For services to numismatic design and the Caribbean community in the UK and abroad. Clare Joanne Connor Director of Women's Cricket, England and Wales Cricket Board. For services to cricket. Joyce Evelyn Cook For services to sport and accessibility. Jilly Cooper Author and journalist. For services to literature and charity. Professor Diane Coyle For services to economics and the public understanding of economics. Patrick Lorne Crerar. For services to the hospitality industry in Scotland and to charity. Professor Martyn Christopher Davies, lately Professor of Biomedical Surface Chemistry, University of Nottingham. For services to pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. Thomas Auguste Read Delay, Chief Executive, the Carbon Trust. For services to sustainability in business. Sean Nicholas Dennehey, Deputy Chief Executive, Intellectual Property Office. For services to intellectual property. Professor Caroline Dive, professor of cancer pharmacology and deputy director, Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute. For services to cancer research. Professor Christl Ann Donnelly, professor of statistical epidemiology, Imperial College London. For services to epidemiology and the control of infectious diseases. Professor Michele Karen Dougherty, Professor of Space Physics, Imperial College London. For services to UK physical science research. Judith Doyle, Principal and chief executive officer, Gateshead College. For services to education and skills in the North East. Janette Anita Durbin, Director, Civil Service Talent. For services to diversity in the senior civil service. Elizabeth Lucy Dymond, Finance director, the Charity for Civil Servants. For public service. David Robert Earnshaw, chair, Outwood Grange Academies Trust. For services to education. Professor Richard Ludlow English, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and professor of politics, Queen's University Belfast. For services to the understanding of modern-day terrorism and political history. Dr. Phillip Andrew Evans, Head, DFID Somalia, Department for International Development. For services to humanitarian relief. Peter Kenrick Florence Co-founder and director, Hay Festival. For services to literature and charity. Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal, Royal Academy of Music. For services to music. Hilary Mary Garratt, Director of Nursing, NHS England. For services to nursing and the safeguarding of vulnerable people. Michael Anthony Giannasi Chairman, Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust. For services to the NHS. Professor Simon John Gibson Chief executive, Wesley Clover Corporation. For services to the economy in Wales. Martin Keith Green, Chief executive and director,