For services to Business and to the community in Northern Ireland. Andrew William Graham Wylie. Co-Founder and managing director, Sage Group plc. For services to the Software Industry. Graham Robert Wynne. Chief executive, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. For services to Nature Conservation. Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Professor Geoffrey Bownas. For services to Japanese studies and to UK-Japanese relations. Richard Anthony Neil Crompton. Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran. Dr Geoffrey Dean. For services to medical research. Professor Anthony Edward Jones. For services to the promotion of British art in the USA. Bishop David Leake. Lately Anglican Bishop of Argentina. For services to the local and British communities in Argentina. David Erroll Prior Palmer. For services to newspaper publishing and British business interests in Ireland. Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Civil Division: Mrs Julie Karen Acred, Chief Executive, Southern Derbyshire Acute Services NHS Trust. For services to the NHS. David Colin Andrews, Consultant, Careers Education and Guidance. For services to Careers Education. John Andrews, Chairman, Low Incomes Tax Reform Group. Mrs Lynda Anne Armstrong, Director, New Business Development, Shell UK. For services to the UK Oil and Gas Industry. The Reverend Susan Pamela Ayling, Policy Adviser, Inland Revenue. Stephen James Backley, M.B.E. For services to Athletics. Mrs Judith Stager Ramsey Barker, Adviser, London Drug Prevention Advisory Service, Government Office for London. Robert Bartlett, Senior Lawyer, H.M. Customs and Excise. Michael Francis Baughan, Chief Executive, Learning and Teaching Scotland. For services to Education in Scotland. Babu Singh Bawa, Councillor, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. For services to the Community in Sandwell. Raymond Frederic Baxter, Co-Founder and Honorary Admiral, Association of Dunkirk Little Ships.For services to Heritage. Mrs Leonora Antoinette Beardon, Senior Teaching and Research Associate, Cambridge University School of Education. For services to Mathematical Education. *Keith Beattie, Chief Engineer, London Underground Limited. For services to Safety. Clive Beddall, lately Editor, The Grocer Magazine. For services to the Food Industry. Professor Clifford Beevers, Professor, Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University. For services to Higher Education. Graham Benfield, Chief Executive, Wales Council for Voluntary Action. For services to the Voluntary Sector in Wales. Rab Bennetts. For services to Architecture. Mrs Natalie Beswetherick, Head, Physiotherapy Services, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust. For services to Physiotherapy. John Richard Bettinson. For services to the community in Birmingham. Edgar Biss, Chairman, Tellermate plc, Cardiff, South Wales. For services to Exports. Michael Blakemore, Theatre and Film Director. For services