Membership

Details of the Council's members and register of interests.


The members are senior figures from the fields of science, engineering and technology. They are appointed by the Prime Minister, in line with guidance from the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments. CST invites non-members to join sub-groups to advise on specific pieces of work.

Chairs

Members

  • Professor Julia Black CBE, FBA - President of the British Academy and Strategic Director of Innovation and Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (ex-officio member)
  • Professor Muffy Calder OBE, FREng, FRSE - Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science & Engineering, University of Glasgow
  • Suranga Chandratillake FREng - General Partner at Balderton Capital
  • Professor Jim Hall FREng, FICE - Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, University of Oxford
  • Professor Dame Anne Johnson FMedSci - President of the Academy of Medical Sciences (ex-officio member)
  • Saul Klein - Co-founder and Managing Partner, Phoenix Court
  • Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE, FRS - Chief Executive, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (ex-officio member); Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  • Professor Max Lu FAA, FTSE, FIChemE, FRSC - President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey
  • Professor Jim McDonald FREng FRSE - President of the Royal Academy of Engineering (ex-officio member) and Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde
  • Professor Fiona Murray CBE - Associate Dean for Innovation and Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Management
  • Professor Paul Newman FREng, FIEEE, FIET - BP Professor of Information Engineering at University of Oxford; Founder and CTO of Oxbotica
  • Professor Dame Carol Propper DBE, FBA, International Fellow NAM, FASS – Professor of Economics at Imperial College London, Business School
  • Professor Keith Ridgway CBE, FREng, FIMechE HonFRAeS, FRINA, FCGI, Senior Executive – manufacturing, University of Strathclyde
  • Professor Brooke Rogers OBE, FRSA, FHEA - Professor of Behavioural Science and Security and Vice Dean People & Planning for Social Science and Public Policy at King’s College London
  • Professor Sir Adrian Smith FRS - President, Royal Society (ex-officio member)
  • Paul Stein CBE FREng FIET FRAeS - Chairman, Rolls-Royce SMR Limited
  • Lord Stern of Brentford - Chair of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics

‘Ex-officio members’ are people who become members automatically because they hold a particular office.

Observers

  • Alexandra Jones - Director General, Science and Innovation at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
  • Emran Mian - Director General, Digital, Technology and Telecoms at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
  • Kata Escott - Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT); Deputy National Technology Adviser.
  • Jessica Glover – Director General, Growth and Productivity at HM Treasury.

Register of interests

Members are required to declare any personal, political or business interests that could, or could be seen to, influence their judgement.