of universities including Warwick, Sheffield, Edinburgh and York. He has written and lectured widely on technology and the new economy, including the Stockton Lecture at London Business School in 1998, one of the Millennium Lectures at 10 Downing Street in 1999, and the Tacitus Lecture, 2000 at the Guildhall. He is also a former donor to the Labour Party. In September 2017, he was appointed Honorary Chairman of Planet Computers, a crowd-funded start-up producing the Gemini (PDA), a spiritual successor to the Psion Series 5. Honours In the 1997 New Year's Honours list, Potter was appointed a CBE for services to the manufacturing industry and in 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers. In 1999, he was chosen as Entrepreneur of the Year in the annual UK PLC Awards. In June 2003, Potter was appointed a non-Executive Director to the Bank of England, stepping down in 2009. Family David Potter is married to journalist and writer Elaine Potter and they have three sons. His interests include his family, education, farming, golf, music, bridge, reading and ideas, science and economics and tennis. With their involvement in education and the developing world, the family created the David and Elaine Potter Foundation to support projects in education, research and third world development. References 1943 births Living people Alumni of Prince Edward School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of Imperial College London Academics of Imperial College London Academics of London Business School Academics of the University of London Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering People with non-domiciled status in the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK) donors