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Professor Chris Whitty is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, the UK government’s Chief Medical Adviser and head of the public health profession. Chris is a practising NHS Consultant Physician at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Hospital for...
Rowland Kao was appointed chair of Defra’s Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases (SAC-ED) subgroup in January 2018. He was reappointed in July 2021 for 3 years. Defra’s Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases (SAC-ED) subgroup is a subgroup of Defra’s Science...
Rachel will join the University of Sussex in August 2021 from the University of Southampton. As Provost, she will be Sussex’s most senior academic, overseeing all Schools. Rachel has a distinguished scientific record and has carried out a wide range...
Alfredo Saad Filho is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. He is Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King’s College London.
Professor Dame Angela McLean DBE FRS is the Government Chief Scientific Adviser having taken up the role in April 2023. She is also Head of the Government Science and Engineering Profession. Prior to this Angela was the Chief Scientific Adviser...
The Review was set up to consider how the Human Rights Act is working in practice and whether any change is needed. The independent Panel submitted their report to the Deputy Prime Minister in October 2021.
Melanie Jones is Professor of Economics at Cardiff University. Her research interest is in applied labour economics and focuses on labour market inequality. Melanie is currently an editor at the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Member of the Economic and...
Professor Tom Rodden has been appointed as the Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and begins this role in January 2019. Tom Rodden is a Professor of Computing at the University of Nottingham and...
Professor Dame Sally Davies GCB DBE FRS FMedSci is the UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance ( AMR ). Before this, she was Chief Medical Officer ( CMO ) for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK government from...
Professor James Smith is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. James is also Vice Principal International and Chair of Africa and Development Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
The first iteration of the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI has been published today.
Julius Weinberg became Interim Chair of Ofqual on 1 December 2016, following the departure of Amanda Spielman. Julius was previously Deputy Chair of the Ofqual board. He has been Vice Chancellor of Kingston University, from 2011 to 2016 and prior...
Anthony Schapira is head of clinical neurosciences at University College London, professor of neurology and consultant neurologist at University College London Hospital and Royal Free London Hospital, and leads on a large programme of research into Parkinson’s disease.
Professor Gillian Morris is Chair of the Review Body for Nursing and Other Health Professions, Deputy Chair of the Police Negotiating Board and Police Advisory Board for England and Wales, a Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee, and a...
The CMA has launched a market study into housebuilding in England, Scotland and Wales.
Professor Anna Vignoles is a Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. Prior to that she was Professor of Economics of Education at the Institute Of Education and a Research Fellow at the London...
Alasdair Smith (appointed in January 2012) has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex since 1981 and was Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1998 to 2007. His academic work focuses on the effects of international trade on...
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