Roy Drysdale Brown FIMechE FIET (born 4 December 1946) is a British engineer and business executive, who was the chairman of the international engineering conglomerate

GKN GKN Ltd is a British multinational automotive and aerospace components business headquartered in Redditch, England. It is a long-running business known for many decades as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds. It can trace its origins back to 1759 an ...

from 2004 until 2012. He attended the independent

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. On a GEC scholarship he went to

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

, where he gained a

BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

in Mechanical Engineering. He worked for

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from 1974 to 2001, and later became chairman of the Scottish telecommunications company Thus plc. Brown joined GKN as a non-executive director in 1996 and became the company's chairman in May 2004. He was replaced by Michael Turner in May 2012. He married Carol Wallace in 1978 and they have two sons. He became a Fellow of the

Institution of Mechanical Engineers The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is an independent professional association and learned society headquartered in London, United Kingdom, that represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession. With over 120,000 member ...

in 1983, and a Fellow of the IEE (which became the Institution of Engineering & Technology) in 1990.

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1946 births Alumni of University College London Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers People educated at Tonbridge School Living people {{UK-engineer-stub