Ederyn Williams

Ederyn Williams (born 21 September, 1946) is a supporter of the rights of minorities and suppressed groups within society and is the former head of a university department in Coventry in the United Kingdom specialising in business studies. He is the son of the famous Professor of Drama Raymond Williams, and is a co-developer of social presence theory whose main thesis and major points are a seminal scholarly examination of the principles first described in Isaac Asimov's 1956 novel, The Naked Sun.

While working for British Telecom in the early 1980s, he was part of a group which founded the now defunct games company Telecomsoft which carved out a rather noticeable presence in the Tandy TRS 80 and Commodore 64 markets in the UK.

In 2009, his staff nominated him for a Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion, which he graciously shared one year later with fellow winner Nicholas Bowen, the head teacher of St. Benet Biscop Catholic High School in Northumberland.