OBE for Cambridge Mathematics Director

Lynne McClure, Director of Cambridge Mathematics, has been awarded an OBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours list.

The UK honours system recognises people who have made achievements in public life or have committed themselves to serving and helping the UK. An OBE - Order of the British Empire - is awarded to people who have made a great impact in their line of work.  

Lynne, who has received an OBE for her services to education, directs Cambridge Mathematics, an enterprise committed to championing and securing a world class mathematics education for all students from three to 19-years-old.

Cambridge Mathematics is a collaboration between three University partners – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, and the Faculties of Mathematics and Education.

“I am very pleased personally to be a recipient in the New Year’s Honours, but even more delighted that this award highlights the importance of mathematics education – for everyone,” said Lynne.

“At Cambridge Mathematics we are privileged to benefit from collaboration with amazing practitioners, researchers and designers in the UK and internationally, working together to improve mathematics education, worldwide.”

Also among those awarded is Emeritus Professor James Diggle who receives the CBE for Services to Classical Scholarship. In a landmark moment for scholarly publishing, last year Cambridge University Press published the Cambridge Greek Lexicon, the result of 23 years' work by a team from the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, led by Prof James Diggle as Editor-in-Chief.