On 28 June, Graham Meadows, Director-General of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Regional Policy (DG REGIO) was presented with an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Strathclyde.
In a presentation by John Bachtler to the University Degree Congregation ceremony, Graham Meadows was lauded as 'a leading figure in European regional development, a strategic thinker and communicator, who has had a major impact on the direction of European policy-making over the past 30 years, and who has a strong and enduring commitment to the regeneration of Glasgow and Western Scotland.'