UEL Bestows Honorary Doctorate Upon Senior Royal Aide

The Director of Community Engagement to Their Majesties King Charles and Queen Camilla, Eva Omaghomi, received an honorary doctorate in Community Engagement from the University of East London today. She was presented with the award by UEL’s Vice Chancellor and President, Professor Amanda Broderick, at a ceremony at the University’s Docklands campus.

UEL alumnus Eva Omaghomi’s
20-year-career
in communications and diplomatic relations on behalf of the Royal Household has seen her work on a host of global events. These have included US Presidential visits, UN climate change conferences, the Commonwealth Games in Delhi and numerous Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings.

In 2021, she was appointed Director of Community Engagement to Their Majesties
King Charles
and Queen Camilla. Her new role takes forward Their Majesties’ work with minority groups in the UK, global majority populations in the Commonwealth and globally, building on a legacy stretching back decades.

Eva graduated from UEL with a BSc in Anthropology in 1999.

Speaking to the graduates at the ceremony, Eva said,

I am very proud to have been given this honour, and to be an alumnus of this University. It was unthinkable to me at the time as a student that I would live this full circle moment.”