Sir Ian James Dudson KCVO CBE is an English industrialist, chief executive and later non-executive chairman of the ceramics company Dudson in Stoke-on-Trent.
[1][2] He graduated in General Science at the University of Dundee, and studied Ceramic Technology at North Staffordshire Polytechnic (now the University of Staffordshire).
More recently he has held the position of non-executive chairman.
[3] He was appointed CBE in 2002, for services to the ceramic industry.
[4] Dudson was appointed in 2013 Commander of the Order of St John, in recognition of his contribution towards "strengthening the spirit of mankind", and in 2017 became a Knight of the Order of St John.