Sir George William Buckley (born 23 February 1947)[1] is a British businessman.

[2] Buckley was apprenticed as an electrician, eventually progressing to a BSc in electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Huddersfield.

[4] In a 2009 letter to 3M shareholders, George W. Buckley discussed the actions he had taken in response to the economic climate, including cutting jobs.

Buckley remarked that the layoffs that would number "as many as necessary but as few as possible," as well as how 3M "used furloughs, pay cuts, overtime bans, mandatory vacations and stringent incidental cost control to limit the number of layoffs, but in the end some were needed."

[7][8] In October 2020, Buckley was appointed as Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, replacing Prince Andrew, Duke of York.