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Jim Ryan was the first Leonard Cheshire Professor in Conflict Recovery at the Department of Surgery, University College London, serving in that capacity from 1995 until 2007. He was also visiting professor in trauma care and honorary consultant in emergency...
Professor Bell has been a Professor of Economics at King’s Business School within Kings College London since January 2017, following 4 years as an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Oxford University. Professor Bell is a world leading...
Martin Cave (appointed in January 2012) is an economist specialising in competition issues and the regulation of network industries. He was BP Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics in 2010/11 and Professor at Warwick Business School from 2001...
John Newton was appointed on 12 October 2012. Career highlights: led England’s contribution to the Global Burden of Disease project Chairman of the WHO European Burden of Disease Network Honorary Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of...
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 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...
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 Robin Mason is Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom. Robin is also Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham; and a decision-making Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Financial...
Sarah Brown became a Low Pay Commissioner on 26th March 2015. Her term ends on 10 November 2021. She is a Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield and a director of the Institute for Economic Analysis of Decision-making...
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...
Professor John Perkins was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in 2012. John is currently an Honorary Professor at Manchester University, a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and a member of the EPSRC...
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam was Deputy Chief Medical Officer from October 2017 to March 2022. He led on health protection. Career highlights: Clinical experience in emergency medicine, anaesthesia, general medicine and infectious diseases Clinical academic training in public health medicine Became...
Professor Sir Ian Boyd was Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from September 2012 to August 2019. He is currently Professor in Biology at the University of St Andrews. Career highlights include: Physiological Ecologist...
Professor Jennifer Rubin became the Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser in January 2021. Before joining the Home Office Professor Rubin was the Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK’s largest funder of economic and social...
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...
Charles Godfray is Hope Professor in the Zoology Department and Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford. He is a population biologist with research interests including ecology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology....
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...
Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser is the Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. UKRI brings together the UK’s research councils, Innovate UK and Research England, operating with a combined...
Professor Julia Sutcliffe was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Business and Trade in February 2023. Julia provides science and engineering advice and independent challenge to the department’s ministers and senior officials, champions an evidence-based approach to decision-making,...
Sir Mark Walport is the Chief Executive of the newly formed UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which is responsible for the public funding of research and innovation. He was Government Chief Scientific Adviser ( GCSA ) and Head of the...
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