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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 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 of Formal Methods (Computing...
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...
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...
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...
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 London School of Economics. He...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Russell Viner is Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Education. He is a paediatrician and professor at the University College London (UCL) Great Ormond St. Institute of Child Health and works clinically at University College London Hospitals (UCLH). His...
Professor Clary has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the FCO since August 2009. He is also President of Magdalen College Oxford and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He worked in the IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, USA...
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...
Professor Sampson has over 40 years’ experience working in the criminal justice sector, having served as a police officer for 19 years before becoming a solicitor specialising in policing law, conduct and governance. He is an Honorary Professor and member...
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 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...
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 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 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...
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