SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes has been awarded an OBE in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours.
He has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire – to give it its full name – for services to the automotive industry.
Hawes, who joined the trade body as CEO in 2013 after a number of years in the automotive sector in the UK and abroad, called it ‘a huge honour’ and one that he was sharing with the SMMT team and the industry.
He began his career in the road transport…
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