Our governance
The Government Science and Engineering Profession board, consits of CSAs, Deputies and HoSEPs.
Members of the Government Science and Engineering (GSE) Profession Board are Heads of Science and Engineering Profession (HoSEPs). HoSEPs are responsible for championing the GSE Profession and ensuring that it meets the needs of the scientists and engineers in their organisations.
Please see the list below of HoSEPs for each department.
Chair
- Dame Angela McLean – Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of GSE Profession
Members
Departments
- Professor Julia Sutcliffe – Department for Business and Trade
- Professor Tom Crick – Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Professor Anjali Goswami – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Professor Paul Monks – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Vacant – Department of Education
- Professor Sarah Sharples – Department for Transport
- Professor Mary De Silva – Department of Health and Social Care
- Professor Chris Johnson – Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Professor Andy Bell – Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Dr Giovanni Angioni – Department for Work and Pensions
- Professor Charlotte Watts – Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office
- Professor Robin May – Food Standards Agency
- Professor Andrew Curran – Health and Safety Executive
- Professor Jennifer Rubin – Home Office
- Nikki Dowell – Intellectual Property Office
- Professor Stephen Belcher – Met Office
- Professor Tim Dafforn – Ministry of Defence (Engineering)
- Professor Vernon Gibson – Ministry of Defence (Science)
- Professor Richard Prager – Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Hugh Stickland – Ministry of Justice
- Professor Paul Taylor – National Police Chiefs’ Council
- Professor Jan-Theodoor Janssen – National Physical Laboratory
- Professor Isabel Oliver – UK Health Security Agency
Devolved Administrations
- Professor Calum Semple – Scottish Government
- Professor Jas Pal Badyal – Welsh Government