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Professor Alan Penn is the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Alan was previously, from July 2019 to September 2021, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. A Professor...
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Peter Dolton is a Professor of Economics at Sussex University and Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. His research interests are in the labour economics, applied econometrics and the economics of education. He has published many articles...
David Blackaby is Professor of Economics at Swansea University. Main areas of research are labour markets, regional economics, public policy and the Welsh Economy. 1996 to 2005 he was Head of the Economics Department, 2005 to 2008 Deputy Head of...
Professor Bob Steele obtained his initial surgical and academic training in Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Aberdeen and was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Nottingham in 1990. He was then appointed as Professor of Surgery at...
Professor John Wood was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner from June 2020 to May 2023. John is a materials scientist by background and has honorary chairs at a number of UK universities. He is an adviser to governments on international research...
Professor Bruce Campbell is a Non-Executive Director of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). He chaired the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) advisory committees on interventional procedures 2002-15 and on medical technologies 2009-15. He is...
Professor Anu Ojha OBE is the Director of Championing Space at the UK Space Agency, responsible for overseeing the Agency’s inspiration and outreach activities, its international relationships and ESA policy teams, and leading on how we engage with audiences on...
Professor Guy Poppy was Chief Scientific Adviser at the Food Standards Agency between August 2014 and July 2020. His previous career highlights include: Professor of Ecology at the University of Southampton Director of Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Southampton...
Professor Lucy Chappell FMedSci is the Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), with overall responsibility for the department’s research and development, including the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the government’s major...
David is a clinical pharmacologist who has undertaken basic, translational and clinical research over the past 30 years in pursuit of developing safe and effective medicines for the treatment of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. He holds the Christison Chair of...
Professor Brian Morgan is Director of the Creative Leadership and Enterprise Centre at the Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University and a member of the Cardiff Capital Region Board.
A professor of Comparative Education at the University of Birmingham, Professor Kiwan has an interdisciplinary background in psychology, sociology and education. Her broad research programme focuses on citizenship, inclusion and is interdisciplinary and comparative in scope. Her interests centre around...
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Valerie was Professor of Epidemiology at University of Oxford and the principal investigator for the Million Women Study. She led international collaborations on breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer. She studied medicine at Sydney University, Australia and practiced in Australia, New...
Isabel Oliver is the Director General of Science and Research & Chief Scientific Officer at the UK Health Security Agency ( UKHSA ). Prior to this, Isabel was Director of National Infection Service at Public Health England ( PHE ) having...
Madeleine Arnot was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner from January 2019 to September 2023. Madeleine is Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Education and Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Global Human...
Alastair Gray is Professor of Health Economics in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. He has previously held academic appointments at the University of Aberdeen, the Open University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine....
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