Roy Evans (engineer)

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| name = Roy Evans

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| office = Vice-Chancellor, University College of North Wales/University of Wales, Bangor

| term_start = 1995

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| office2 = Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering, University College, Cardiff/University of Wales College of Cardiff

| term_start2 = 1983

| term_end2 = 1995

| birth_name = Hubert Roy Evans

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| birth_place = Llandysul, Cardiganshire, Wales

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Hubert Roy Evans (born 27 May 1942) is a Welsh civil engineer and academic.

He is a native of Llandysul, in Ceredigion, Wales. A graduate of Swansea University (Wales) he became Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering at Cardiff University, where he spent 26 years of his career.

He won international recognition as a civil engineer, receiving numerous awards (including the George Stephenson Medal in 1980) and became a Fellow{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows}} of the Royal Academy of Engineering{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows}} in 1992. Evans was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, for services to higher education.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/honours-order-of-the-british-empire--gcb-dbe-and-cbe-606426.html{{Dead link|date=August 2014}}

He served as Deputy Principal at Cardiff University for four years before his appointment as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor in 1995, retiring in 2004. He was a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for the academic year 1998/9.

He is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Roy Evans |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/roy-evans/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}