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13 Facts About Stephen Tetlow

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Brigadier Stephen John Tetlow was born on June 1954 and is a chartered engineer and former senior British Army officer.

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Stephen Tetlow read Mechanical Engineering at City, University of London, and gained an MSc in Design of Information Systems from Cranfield University and an MBA from The Open University.

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Stephen Tetlow was appointed an Honorary Doctor of Engineering at University of Plymouth in 2019 for his work to inspire young people into engineering.

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Stephen Tetlow had been promoted to Major by 1991, when he had received his MBE.

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Stephen Tetlow was then promoted to Colonel by 2011, when he qualified claims put forward by author Tim Blackmore that emerging technology would revolutionize battlespace in the near future - commenting that "conflict is, and will remain, essentially a human activity".

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Stephen Tetlow was Director of Operations at the Defence Logistics Organisation from 2001 to 2002 and Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the British Army from 2002 to 2005.

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At VOSA, Stephen Tetlow led the computerisation of the MoT System which was awarded the British Computer Society Industry Award for Business to Business in 2007.

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Stephen Tetlow was a Group Director of the Driver and Vehicle Operator Group of agencies of the Department for Transport and an advisor to the Department for Transport on Road User Charging.

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Stephen Tetlow left VOSA in 2008 to become the Chief Executive of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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Stephen Tetlow resigned from the IMechE after members tabled a motion expressing no confidence in Stephen Tetlow to manage the affairs of the institute and the operation of its trading subsidiaries.

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Stephen Tetlow has since led an expedition to South Georgia in order to retrace the steps of Ernest Shackleton to highlight the impact of global warming.

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Stephen Tetlow is currently a Non Executive Director of The Student Loans Company and of The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and previously The Planning Inspectorate.

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Stephen Tetlow is a fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology.