1974


Yassar Al-Tamer (MSc Biochemistry, PhD Biochemistry 1978)


I have spent my career in the education and research field. In 2004 I established a biochemistry department in Ninevah College of Medicine and became department head until March 2010. At the same time I was the director of a scientific and consultative bureau of the college (a kind of outpatient clinic) until 2013. In June 2014 ISIS occupied Mosul. I, my family and a great number of academic fellows moved to the safe Iraqi Kurdistan region. At the beginning of the academic year 2015-2016, Mosul University and Ninevah University managed to find temporary buildings in Kirkuk, Erbil and Duhuk to assume their activities. We started the academic year in October 2015 and I was appointed as Deputy Assistant President of Ninevah University in March 2016 and stayed in this position until my retirement in January 2017, aged 70.


1977 Tony Lyttle


(MSc in Quantitative Business Methods)


My degree has stood me in good stead and I enjoyed a fulfilling career in business efficiency until I retired from that line and became a writer. I now have three novels behind me (one published, so far) and I’m halfway through a biography of my great-grandfather, WG Lyttle, who was a celebrated Ulster writer, newspaper proprietor and raconteur. My published book, Dillon’s Rising, is a historical thriller set at the time of the Easter Rising. The book is available via Amazon.


Paul West (BSc Maths)


After graduating I entered into a chartered accountancy training contract and, on qualifying in 1982, I headed off into the world of industry. I retired as financial controller from Roke Manor Research in 2013. I am now trustee, director, auditor or accountant to a number of local charities including being a trustee for the Bursledon Brickworks Museum – the challenge is to maintain the viability of the only surviving steam-driven brickworks in the country


as a visitor attraction. I have three children in London and one in Spain and three grandchildren.


1980


Professor Trailokya Nath Naik (PhD Microbiology)


I joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1981 and initiated research on Rotaviruses, before taking up a permanent position as Senior Research Officer and Head of the Division of Virology of the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, India rising to Deputy Director and Head of the Division of Virology. I retired from the National Institute of Science Education & Research, Bhubaneswar, a teaching and research Institute of the Department of Atomic Energy, as Professor of the School of Biological Sciences. I married Mrs Sabita Naik and we have been blessed with two lovely daughters.


1982 Karen Evans


(PhD Educational Studies)


I am Emeritus Professor at UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and recently won the European Commission’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) Research Award. Much of my work was undertaken in my role as IOE Professor and Chair in Education from 2001, and particularly as research professor in the Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies from 2008.


1987 Michael Omotoso (BSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering)


At Surrey, I went by the name Olu Omotoso, and Michael Olu Omotoso now. I currently live and work in Michigan, USA. I am a Business Development Manager at Dayco Products LLC. I have two kids (a boy and a girl). Wouldn’t mind hearing from alumni in the midwestern US.


1981


Matthew Lloyd (BSc Materials Technology)


After graduation I joined the Royal Navy and then joined the Fleet Air Arm. I left the RN when I married and moved to New Zealand where I acquired a Master’s degree in Communications from Victoria University in Wellington. On behalf of the International Federation of Red Cross in Geneva, I created a technical team to provide voice and data communication tools and technical support, for response to major disasters globally. I am now an independent consultant in disaster response technology, in particular catastrophe communications, working currently on a project (called Serval, being piloted in Vanuatu), that permits the use of smartphones where there is no cellular infrastructure.


1990 Francois Marot (BSc Hotel Management)


I have been married to fellow Hotel Management graduate Sam (née Zakia Abdu) since 1991, having met her at Surrey. We have been living in Mauritius since 1991 and have three wonderful sons. Four-and-a-half years ago, I became self-employed and decided to share my 30-year knowledge and experience of the hospitality industry on the customer care and service sides. Pictured is me with Sam and Sarmad Zok (CEO Kingdom Holdings Investments), who also studied Hotel Management, in 1988.


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