Robert T Beaty

Who is Robert T Beaty?

Professor Robert T Beaty OBE FREng FIEE, FIProdE, engineer, is a former Chairman of Renfrewshire Enterprise, Chairman of the Court of the University of Paisley and the University of the West of Scotland, and member of the Scottish Industrial Development Advisory Board.

Robert Thompson Beaty was born in 1943 and received his schooling at Hamilton Academy before entering the University of Glasgow at which he was Hoover scholar, BSc.

Following further training in engineering with the Hoover Company at Cambuslang, Scotland, Beaty has held numerous positions including those with IBM, of which he was a director, the Scottish Electronics Forum and Semple Cochrane plc From 1996 Beaty has been visiting professor of product design at the University of Glasgow.

In 1995 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the subject 'The Growth of Information Technology'.

In 1999, Robert Beaty was appointed chairman of Renfrewshire Enterprise, part of the Scottish Enterprise network, a position he held to 2003 in which year he was awarded the OBE for services to enterprise.