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Sir (Nicholas) Dominic Cadbury (born 12 May, 1940) is a British businessman and member of the Cadbury chocolate manufacturing dynasty. He is the sixth Chancellor of Birmingham University.
After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, Sir Dominic completed his MBA at Stanford, before joining Cadbury Schweppes in 1964. He was appointed to the Board in 1975, serving as Group Chief Executive from 1983 to 1993, then as Chairman until his planned retirement on his 60th birthday on 12th May 2000.
His current non-executive positions include Chairman of the Wellcome Trust, Chairman of The Economist Group and Joint Deputy Chairman of EMI Group. He is also a member of the Council of Management of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He was knighted in the Queens Birthday Honours List in June 1997.
He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Birmingham on 2 May 2002 upon the retirement of Sir Alex Jarratt.
He is the son of Laurence John Cadbury and Joyce Cadbury, and the grandson of George Cadbury. He is married with three children. His brother Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury is also a former Cadbury company executive.
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