Order of the British Empire
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
31 December 2016
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
D.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Henrietta Miriam Ottoline LEYSER DAY C.B.E.
Director, The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
For services to Plant Science, Science in Society and Equality and Diversity in Science.