Roy Evans (engineer)

Hubert Roy Evans (born 27 May 1942) is a Welsh civil engineer and academic.

He won international recognition as a civil engineer, receiving numerous awards (including the George Stephenson Medal in 1980) and became a Fellow[1] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[2] in 1992.

Evans was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, for services to higher education.

[3] He served as Deputy Principal at Cardiff University for four years before his appointment as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor in 1995, retiring in 2004.

He was a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for the academic year 1998/9.