Hamid Mughal

Dr Mughal is an internationally acclaimed manufacturing leader with over 28 years’ experience in the automotive and aerospace industries.

Previously Director of New Product Programmes for BMW Group, he joined Rolls-Royce plc in 2001. In his role as Director of Manufacturing, he is responsible for leading the Manufacturing activities & strategies across our Aerospace, Marine and Energy businesses. This includes the development and deployment of Manufacturing processes, standards, technologies, systems and Lean practices to achieve Best in Class performance.

Holding degrees in mechanical engineering, mathematics and technology, production engineering and management and a doctorate in manufacturing systems, he is Pro-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham and External Professor at Cranfield and Sheffield universities. He is a Chartered Engineer, winner of the IET’s International Manufacturing Gold Medal, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, IMechE and IET, and a board member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult and the Advanced Manufacturing Institute.

He was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to Technology, Innovation and Manufacturing.

Hamid Mughal