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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 infect…
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Jonathan Wadsworth is a professor of economics in the Economics department at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Hull and his M.Sc and PhD from the Londo…
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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 minister…
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Julia West is Principal of West Consult having spent most of her career at the British Geological Survey ( BGS ). She is also an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester (School of Earth, Atmospheric and E…
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Professor Julie Fitzpatrick was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser ( CSA ) for Scotland in June 2021. This is a part-time position. Julie also remains Scientific Director of Moredun Research Institute and CEO of The Moredun …
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Professor Julie Williams was Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales from September 2013 to September 2017. Professor Williams is a leading researcher into Alzheimer’s disease. She is head of the Neurodegeneration section of the …
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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 …
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Karen Mumford is a Professor at the University of York who specialises in labour economics and human resource management. She received her PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). Karen has been the Chair of the Ro…
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Professor Keith Palmer became the chair of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) in 2008. Before this, he was a member of the council, and then chair of its Research Working Group between 2001 and 2008. His is also…
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Professor Mayhew is currently Emeritus Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance at Oxford University. He also has a chair at Maastricht University in the Ne…
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Professor Kevin Fenton joined Public Health England ( PHE ) on 12 November 2012. Kevin has worked in a variety of public health roles across government and academia, before joining the PHE board in 2020. Before taking up the…
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Professor Kevin Ibeh is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. Kevin is also Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor of Marketing and International Business at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Linda Luxon CBE BSc FRCP is Emeritus Professor of Audiovestibular Medicine at UCL and Honorary Consultant Physician in the Department of Audiovestibular Medicine, UCLH . Formerly she was Head of the Department of Neuro-otolo…
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Professor Liz Baggs is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. Liz is Chair of Food and Environmental Security and Deputy Dean of Research for Strategic Change in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the Unive…
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Louis Appleby has championed suicide prevention at the national level since 2000. He chairs the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group which provides leadership and support in ensuring successful implementation …
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Louise Bryant is a Professor of Psychological and Social Medicine at the University of Leeds, and a chartered psychologist. Her applied health research focuses on psychosocial aspects of prenatal screening technologies: cons…
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Louise was Chair of Defra’s Science Advisory Council between July 2021 and June 2024. Louise Heathwaite is a hydrochemist who combines field and geospatial modelling research to understand the environmental impact of land us…
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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…
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Professor Lynn Dicks is a Professor of Ecology at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. She leads a research group working on sustainable agriculture and insect conservation, and teaches ecology and conservatio…
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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-f…
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Malcolm Bennett is Professor of Zoonotic and Emerging Diseases at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham and was appointed Chair of the VPC from January 2018, having served as a member since …
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Malcolm Joyce was appointed to the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) in June 2023. Malcolm is currently Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Cross-faculty Associate Dean for Research at Lancaster University. …
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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 a…
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Mary Ryan is the Vice Provost for Research and Enterprise and the Armourers and Brasiers’ Chair in Materials Science at Imperial College London. Mary completed her undergraduate studies, earning Joint Honors in Mathematics a…
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Professor Mary Stiasny OBE is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. She is also Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) University of London and Chief Executive University of London International Programmes.
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Matthew Campbell-Hill was appointed as Chair of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee ( DPTAC ) in February 2023. Matthew is also a Non-Executive Director at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ). He h…
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Prof Mel Austen is Professor of Ocean and Society at the University of Plymouth where she is also Director of its Centre for Systems Thinking: Ocean, Land and Society. She leads and undertakes collaborative transdisciplinary…
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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…
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Melissa Denecke is Scientific Director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute at The University of Manchester and holds a Chair in the University’s School of Chemistry. Previously she was department head for ‘Actinide Speciation’, …
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Professor Winter OBE is a rural policy specialist and social scientist with expertise covering a wide range of environmental and agro-food issues with particular interests in applying inter-disciplinary approaches to policy-…
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Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, a member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She is also a regular cont…
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Professor Morag McDonald is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. Morag is Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at Bangor University.
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Professor Muffy Calder took up her post as Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland in March 2012. Professor Calder came to the Scottish government from the University of Glasgow where she continues to hold chair of Professor o…
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Natalie Armstrong is Professor of Healthcare Improvement Research at the University of Leicester, where she is also Implementation Lead for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration – East Midlands (ARC-EM). Natalie is experie…
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Neil Hyatt was appointed to the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in November 2019. Neil is a Professor of Nuclear Materials Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and Head of Department of Materials Science & …
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Neil was appointed Deputy Director for Health Workforce for the north of England at PHE in 2014. Career highlights: Head of profession for health at the Department for International Development ( DFiD ) long career working i…
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Nick Hardwick became Chair of the Parole Board in March 2016. He also has a part-time role as Professor in Criminal Justice at the School of Law, Royal Holloway University of London. From 2010 to 2016 he was HM Chief Inspect…
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Professor Nick Jennings was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security from 2010 to 2015. Nick is an internationally-recognised authority in the areas of agent-based computing and intelligent systems. He is currently Reg…
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Professor Nuala McGrath was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner from January 2017 to January 2023. She is also Professor of Epidemiology and Sexual Health at the University of Southampton.
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Professor Parmjit Jat is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner. Parmjit is also a Professor of Molecular Cellular Biology at University College London (UCL) and Medical Research Council (MRC) Investigator within the MRC Pr…
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Paul Cosford joined PHE on 12 October 2012. Prior to this, Paul led the national and local delivery of health protection services within the Health Protection Agency ( HPA ) from September 2010, and was acting Chief Executiv…
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Professor Paul Cullinan qualified in medicine from Guy’s Hospital (University of London) in 1982. He trained in respiratory medicine in England, and in epidemiology and biostatistics at McGill University in Montreal. He work…
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Paul Jackson was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner from 2021 to 2024. He is Professor of African Politics and Director of Research for the College of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.
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Professor Paul Johnstone joined Public Health England ( PHE ) in December 2012. Career highlights: Director of Public Health for the NHS in the North of England, and Regional Director of Public Health for Yorkshire and the H…
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Professor Paul Monks CB is the Chief Scientific Adviser ( CSA ) for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ). Paul delivers independent and impartial science and engineering advice to ministers and policyma…
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Paul has worked in a variety of public health roles in government, the NHS and academia before joining PHE in 2013. Before taking up the interim London regional director role, Paul split his time between being Deputy Directo…
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Professor Wiles has spent much of his career as an academic criminologist at a number of UK universities and is currently a governor at Sheffield Hallam University and a trustee of the National Centre for Social Research. Un…
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Penny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), and an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Penny has an ex…
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Professor Peter Cooke was appointed as Vice Chairperson of the Independent Living Fund’s board of trustees in March 2006. Peter is Emeritus Professor of Automotive Management at the University of Buckingham Business School, …
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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 educat…