Robin Millar CBE (1970) appointed chair of Scope
A member of Queens' has been appointed to lead Scope, a charity that works for equality for people with disabilities.
Robin is an internationally-renowned British record producer, businessman and mentor, with 150 gold and platinum discs including 44 "Number 1" hits.
He found his way into the music industry after reading Law at Queens’. He worked with artists such as Sade, Eric Clapton and Elvis Costello.
In 2015, he was featured on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4; you can listen online.
Robin has the progressive condition Retinitis Pigmentosa and was registered blind at 16 years old, with no sight since 1985.
He was interviewed for The Bridge magazine a few years ago, when he made the following remarks about his time here:
"Before I went to Cambridge, I was a very vulnerable student. A teenager with worsening eyesight, thinking of all the things I couldn’t do. By the time I was in my second year, in my mind I hadn’t just caught up with my able-bodied school friends, I’d leapt past them. I felt I had opportunity and potential. I made high-quality friends and together we started bands and societies. You met people with three brains and such drive, people of all shapes and sizes who didn’t conform to the norm; they’d all been let in and had a gift in some way. We were all a bunch of misfits. I was accepted; no one had a problem with the fact that I had to take their arm to get somewhere."
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