Robin Saxby

Honours and awards Saxby is a chartered engineer, an honorary fellow of the IET and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. the University of Essex, Nottingham Trent University and Anglia Ruskin University.

He received the Faraday Medal of the IEE (now the IET). He was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours List. He became president of the IET on 1 October 2006 and stepped down on 30 September 2007. In 2013 he presented the IET prestigious Pinkerton Lecture at the Infosys auditorium in Bangalore, India. He was president of the Old Cestrefeldians Society 2012/13. Saxby was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.

Saxby received the 2019 IEEE Founders Medal “For achievements in developing a globally successful electronics enterprise with an innovative approach to licensing of Intellectual Property.”

Personal life Saxby married Patricia Bell in 1970. They have a son and a daughter.