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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 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...
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 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...
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 Chris Whitty is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, the UK government’s Chief Medical Adviser and head of the public health profession. Chris is a practising NHS Consultant Physician at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Hospital for...
Professor Charlotte Watts is Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence at the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She is seconded from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she is Professor of Social...
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...
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...
Emma is a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, specialising in philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science, and business ethics. Emma held a British Academy Special Research Grant Covid-19 scheme Award for...
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...
The UK government is announcing its support for the renowned particle physicist Professor Mark Thomson, to be the next Director-General of CERN.
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 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...
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...
The review will examine the harm that drugs cause and look at prevention, treatment and recovery.
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...
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....
Professor John Beath studied at the Universities of St. Andrews (Queen’s College Dundee), London and Pennsylvania (where he was a UK Thouron Scholar) and held academic posts at Bristol, Cambridge and St. Andrews. He became Professor Emeritus at St. Andrews...
Professor Gideon Henderson was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 1 October 2019. He is also Director General for Science and Analysis. He is responsible for overseeing the quality of evidence that...
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