Sir Peter Rigby Centre for Enterprise Launch
Start time: 16:30 / End time: 18:00 / Date: 16 Oct 2024 / Venue: Tung Auditorium Open to: Any UOL students / Any UOL staff / University of Liverpool Alumni / Business/industry / General Public Type: Lecture Cost: Free to attend, registration required. Contact: For more information contact University of Liverpool Events at events@liverpool.ac.uk
About the event
Join us for the launch of the Sir Peter Rigby Centre for Enterprise and hear from Sir Peter Rigby about the exciting plans for this transformational centre.
Sir Peter will have an in-depth discussion outlining his life, career and his vision for the Centre for Enterprise and why he chose the University of Liverpool as his partner. This promises to be a fascinating opportunity to hear more from the man who has built one of the UK’s largest privately owned businesses, The Rigby Group.
Refreshments will be available upon arrival.
We will also be holding optional tours of the new Centre following the event.
About the Centre
The Sir Peter Rigby Centre for Enterprise will transform the employability of the University of Liverpool’s students, staff and the young people of the Liverpool City Region. It will ensure more young people have the enterprise skills to thrive by offering funding to enterprising students who could not otherwise attend university, strengthening our growing entrepreneurial University student population, and supporting the commercialisation of world changing innovations led by our academics.
It will raise the level of enterprise education and entrepreneurial skills development across our community with the aim of reaching 50,000 people within its 3-year pilot.
The Centre will be underpinned by our joint vision, built on a rich history of 50 years of entrepreneurism, along with the University's reputation for innovation and academic excellence.
About Sir Peter Rigby DL
Liverpool-born Sir Peter is founder and Chairman of The Rigby Group, which holds a portfolio of privately-owned businesses in technology, investments, property, hotels and airports. In addition, he is a past Chairman of Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP) and Millennium Point Trusts, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Liveryman of the Honourable Company or Air Pilots and an Honorary Group Captain in 601 (County of London) Squadron RAF. He is also a trustee of several charities, including The Rigby Foundation, which invests in causes relating to lifelong learning, health and education.
Sir Peter was knighted in 2002 for his contribution to IT and business in the Midlands and in 2021 became the first British businessman to be awarded the Legion d'honneur for services to the economy and Anglo-French relations. He also holds honorary degrees from Birmingham City University (2000) and Aston University (2003) and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Midlands Business Awards in 2018. Sir Peter was appointed Honorary President, Enterprise at the University of Liverpool in 2023.
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