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= Sir Geoffrey Allen = Sir Geoffrey Allen (29 October 1928) was appointed Head of Unilever Research and Patents Division in 1981, having previously been Professor of Chemical Technology at Imperial College London from 1976 to 1981, and Chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council from 1977 to 1981.

He was appointed Director of Research and Engineering in 1982 and continued in this role until his retirement in 1990.

Career
Geoffrey Allen was a Professor of Chemical Technology at Imperial College London from 1976 to 1981, when he was appointed Chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council. Only two years before, in 1979, he was awarded a knighthood. He would be known as Sir Geoffrey Allen from then onwards.

In 1981 he was appointed Head of Unilever Research and Patents Division and only a year later he was also appointed Director of Research and Engineering.

In 1984 he received an honorary degree from East Anglia University and one year later he was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Keele University. He would later become a member of the Technology Requirements Board as well as a fellow of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. The same year (1986) he received honorary degrees from the Universities of Essex and Leeds.

Allen was also appointed Chairman of the British Plastics Federation’s polymer strategy committee and became Executive Advisor at Kobe Steel in London in 1990. He was appointed member of the National Consumer Council three years later.

Allen was Chancellor of the University of East Anglia from 1993 to 2003 and a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Protection from 1994 to 2004. He served as President of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in 1994.