Members
Professor John Beddington
Professor John Beddington was appointed as Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) on 1 January 2008. John's main research interests are the application of biological and economic analysis to problems of Natural Resource Management including inter alia: fisheries, pest control, wildlife management and the control of disease. He has been at Imperial College since 1984, where he headed the main departments dealing with science and technology. He was promoted to Reader in 1987 and was Professor of Applied Population Biology until his appointment as GCSA.
He has been advisor to a number of Government departments, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (on Antarctic and South Atlantic matters), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (where he chaired the Science Advisory Council), for the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence and the Cabinet Office. He was for six years a member of the Natural Environment Research Council.
He has acted as a senior adviser to several Governments and international bodies including the Australian, New Zealand and US Governments, the European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agriculture Organisation. In June 1997 he was awarded the Heidelberg Award for Environmental Excellence and in 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2004 he was awarded the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George by the Queen for services to fisheries science and management.
Professor Sir John Beringer CBE
Sir John Beringer was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Bristol. He chaired the University’s Research Committee. He was Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment from 1990 to 1999 and Chairman of its Sub-Committee on Wider Biodiversity Issues from 1999 - 2001. He has also served on a number of other Government advisory bodies, including the Health and Safety Executive’s HSE Advisory Committee on Genetic Manipulation. He has been a member of the Council of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and has served on numerous committees for NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council. He has been Chairman of the John Innes Centre Governing Council since January 2001 and is Chair of the Centre’s Resources Committee. John is also Chairman of Main Panel D for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Professor Geoffrey Boulton OBE FRS FRSE
Professor Geoffrey Boulton is Vice Principal and Regius Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Boulton is currently a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Committee, and Chairman of the Research Committee of the League of European Research Universities. He was Chairman of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) Research Committee and has experience of chairing and serving on wide range of UK and international scientific bodies, including the Council of the Royal Society. He has been a member of the Council of the Natural Environment Research Council, and of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. His own research, for which he has received a number of international awards and honorary degrees, is concerned with environmental change, with implications for issues such as the disposal of radioactive waste and civil engineering.
Professor Peter Davies
Professor Peter Davies is Chief Economist at BP and an Honorary Professor at The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee. He held posts previously as an economist at Chase Manhattan Bank, The World Bank, the Government of Swaziland (as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute) and the University of Warwick.
Professor Janet Finch CBE DL AcSS
Professor Janet Finch was appointed independent CST co-chair in March 2007.
Professor Janet Finch is Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, a post that she took up in September 1995. A Sociologist by background, Professor Finch was awarded a CBE in the 1999 New Year's Honours List for services to Social Science. In the same year she was named as one of the Founder Academicians of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. She has been awarded honorary degrees by seven Universities. Professor Finch has served in various national positions related to research policy. A former Council member of the Economic and Social Research Council and Chair of its Research Grants Board, currently she is Chair of the Trustees of the National Centre for Social Research, and a non-executive member of the Board of the Office for National Statistics. She also serves as a member of the Strategic Research Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and recently has chaired a review of the development of research capacity in Nursing, under the auspices of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration. Through Universities UK Professor Finch has taken the lead for the Universities as a whole in relation to health and medicine, including relationships with the National Health Service. Currently she chairs the Health and Social Care Policy Committee of Universities UK. She has also played a prominent role in respect of equality and diversity issues in the University sector, and has chaired the Board of the Equality Challenge Unit. Previous public roles include those of non-executive Director of the North West Regional Health Authority, of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, and membership of the Independent Panel reviewing the Charter of the BBC in 2004/05.
Professor Alan Gilbert
Professor Alan Gilbert came to Manchester in February 2004 as President & Vice-Chancellor-elect to plan for the launch of the single University. He formally took up his duties as President & Vice-Chancellor on 1st October 2004.Professor Gilbert had previously been Vice-Chancellor of the University Melbourne from 1996 to February 2004, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania, 1991-95. During his term at Melbourne, he initiated and, for the first four years led, Universitas 21, an incorporated association of international universities drawn from 10 countries.An historian, Professor Gilbert received a D.Phil. from Oxford in1973. He has served as a member of the Australian Higher Education Council (1991-95) and the Hong Kong University Grants Commission (1998-2000).
Professor Wendy Hall CBE FREng
Wendy Hall is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in the UK and was Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (2002-2007). She was the founding Head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Research Group in ECS. She has published over 350 papers in areas such as hypermedia, multimedia, digital libraries and Web technologies. She is currently senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Vice President of the ACM and is a past President of the British Computer Society 2003-2004. She is a member of the executive committee of UKCRC, and Chair of the new BCS Women's Forum. She is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the new company, Garlik Ltd, and is a founding member of the scientific council of the European Research Council. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2000, and became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) in the same year. She was recently awarded the 2006 Anita Borg award for technical leadership.
Dr Hermann Hauser FREng CBE CPhys FinstP
Dr Hermann Hauser is the co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners Limited. Companies he founded or co-founded include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Electronic Share Information Limited, E*Trade UK, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis and SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited. At Amadeus, he continues to oversee a broad range of early and later stage developing technology companies. He holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Dr Hauser holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Polytechnic, and was awarded an Honorary CBE for "innovative service to the UK enterprise sector" in 2001.
Professor Alan Hughes
Professor Alan Hughes is Director of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) and Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies at the Judge Business School and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He was from 2000-2003 Director of the National Competitiveness Network of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a joint venture between MIT and the University of Cambridge. Professor Hughes has held visiting Professorships in the USA, France and Australia. His research interests are concerned with industrial and technology policy; the measurement of innovation; growth, innovation and financial characteristics of small and medium sized enterprises; analysis of the relationship between corporate takeovers, corporate governance, executive pay and business performance; training and business performance; measurement and evaluation of industrial and business support policy; the relationship between law and economics in the analysis of corporate organisation and performance. Professor Hughes has worked as a policy consultant with, amongst others: HM Treasury, HM Inland Revenue, DTI, DfES, the Bank of England, Eurostat, the International Labour Organisation, the National Consumer Council, and the UN World Institute for Development Economic Research. He helped CST produce its 2000 report “Technology Matters”.
Dr Sue Ion OBE FREng
Dr Sue Ion was Group Director of Technology and Chief Technology Officer of British Nuclear Fuels plc, a position she held from 1992 until 2006. Dr Ion was the winner of the Hinton Medal for excellence in nuclear engineering in 1993, elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1996 and awarded the OBE for services to the nuclear industry in 2002. Dr Ion has held a number of non-executive directorships associated with technology-based businesses and consultancies. Dr Ion represents the UK on a number of international review and oversight committees including the International Atomic Energy Agency Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy and the Euratom Science and Technology Committee. Dr Ion is currently Vice President of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering and a member of EPSRS's Council. She was formerly a member of Council of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. She is a non Executive Director of the Board of the Health and Safety Laboratory.
Sir Paul Nurse FRS FMedSci
Sir Paul Nurse is President of the Rockefeller University, New York. He was previously Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK and has been a member of CST since 2000. He was joint winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work advancing scientific understanding about the biological process by which cells make copies of themselves both in health and in diseases such as cancer. Sir Paul has also received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize & Medal, Royal Society Wellcome and Royal and Copley Medals (U.K.), Pezcoller Award (Italy), Rosenstiel Award and Medal, Heineken Prize (Netherlands), Jimenez Diaz Medal (Spain), Jeantet Prize (Switzerland) and the Gairdner Foundation International Award (Canada). He also is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Academia Europaea. In 1995, he was elected a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and in 1998, was a founding member of the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences. He was awarded the Legion d'Honneur (France) in 2002 and is presently Chair of the Scientific Advisory boards of the Pasteur Institut Paris and EMBL Heidelberg, and is a board member of HHMI (USA).
Sir Keith Peters FRS PMedSci
Sir Keith Peters is Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge, where he was Head of the School of Clinical Medicine between 1987 and 2005. Sir Keith’s research interests centre on the translation of advances in biomedical science to clinical practice, and in his own particular field of immunology of renal and vascular disease, and in particular on how delineation of immunological mechanisms can lead to new therapies for these disorders. He was knighted in the 1993 New Year’s Honours List. Sir Keith is a founding Fellow and was President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2002-06. He is currently Interim Director of the National Institute for medical research at Mill Hill, London and senior advisor for GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals.
Dr Raj Rajagopal FREng CEng FIEE FIMechE FIE FCMI
Dr Raj Rajagopal was Chief Executive of BOC Edwards and an Executive Director of the BOC Group plc until November 2006. He has worked for over 25 years in the field of manufacturing technology and product development and held several positions in BOC Edwards before being appointed Chief Executive. He has led Edwards to world leadership in the high vacuum business, using innovative manufacturing as a competitive advantage in supplying the global semiconductor industry against Japanese, German and French competition. He was appointed non-executive Director of FSI International Inc in Minneapolis (a NASDAQ company) in January 2001 and Foesco plc in May 2005. Dr Rajagopal is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a member of the Council of Cranfield University. He is a member of the advisory board of the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University. He is also a fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), which awarded him the IEE Eric Mensforth International Gold Medal for outstanding contribution to manufacturing technology and management. He is a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a member of the Chartered Institute of Management and chairs the IET’s manufacturing sector panel. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by Cranfield University in 2004.
Dr Philip Ruffles CBE, FRS, FREng
Dr Philip Ruffles was Director of Engineering and Technology and a Main Board member of Rolls-Royce plc from 1997 to 2001 where he enjoyed a distinguished career in engineering. He is presently a Non Executive Director of Domino Printing Science plc and Diamond Light Source Ltd. He has served on a number of government bodies. He was Vice Chairman of the Defence and Aerospace Technology Foresight panel, a member of the Advisory Council for Aerospace Research in Europe and a Council Member of CCLRC. He is presently a member of East Midlands Science and Innovation Council (INN EM). He has worked closely with Universities over many years in an advisory capacity and chaired the Program Review Committee for the Cambridge-MIT Institute between 2004 and 2006. He currently chairs the Collaborative Training Account Management Board at Manchester University. He is a past Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of its Policy Committee and presently sits on the Nominations Committee. He is a Fellow and former Council member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has received many national and international awards including the prestigious Mac Robert Award and the Prince Philip Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering for his work on the Trent engine. He has received honorary doctorates from Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield and City Universities, is a Fellow of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and an Honorary Professor of Warwick and Birmingham Universities. He was made a CBE in 2001 for his services to the Defence and Aerospace Industries.
Professor Michael Sterling FREng
Professor Michael Sterling is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham. He served as Vice Chancellor of Brunel University for 11 years from 1990 - 2001 until his appointment to Birmingham and is now one of the longest-serving University Vice Chancellors in the UK. He previously held senior academic posts in the Universities of Sheffield and Durham, as well as operating successfully as a consultant and entrepreneur in the private sector. He has served on the Engineering Council and has undertaken work for the Higher Education Funding Council for England in various capacities. He is a former Chairman of the Russell Group, and also past President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers) and the Institute of Measurement and Control. He is: a Member of the Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of its Membership Committee; a board member of Advantage West Midlands (Regional Development Agency), a member of AWM's Innovation and Technology Council and Chair of AWM's Information and Communication Technology Steering Group. He is also Chairman of STEMNET (Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics Network) and Chairman of OCEPS Ltd.
Professor Kathy Sykes CPhys FInstP
Professor Kathy Sykes is Professor of Sciences and Society at University of Bristol. She has a background in science engagement, having been Head of Science for ExploreAt Bristol helping to create a new hands on science centre. As Director of the Cheltenham Festival of Science, she has helped to create a new science festival and also Famelab - a national competition, which talent spots and trains new talent in science communication. She is a trustee for NESTA. She sits on advisory groups on public engagement for the Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust, the ESPRC, and the UK Clinical Research Collaboration. She is Chair of the Sciencewise Advisory Panel and steering group. Prizes she has been awarded include: the Royal Society Kohn Award Medal for Science Engagement; the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal award for outstanding contributions to public understanding of Physics; Outstanding Women of Achievement winner UK Resource centre for Women. She is an honorary fellow of the British Association. Professor Sykes appears regularly on radio and television, including the BBC's Rough Science series and Alternative Therapies. Her PhD is in Physics.
Dr Mark Walport FMedSci
Dr Mark Walport was appointed as Director of the Wellcome Trust in June 2003, following a varied career in the medical sciences. As Director, he heads one of the world’s largest biomedical research charities, which spends some £400 million a year in pursuit of its mission to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health. Before joining the Trust, Mark Walport was Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medicine at Imperial College London where he led a research team that focussed on the immunology and genetics of rheumatic diseases. He studied medicine at Clare College Cambridge and trained at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1977, he held junior doctor posts at the Hammersmith, Guy’s and Brompton hospitals and then returned to Cambridge to undertake a PhD at the Medical Research Council Mechanisms in Tumour Immunity Unit. From there he moved to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith (RPMS) where he progressed from senior lecturer to the post of Professor of Medicine and Vice-Dean for Research. When the RPMS merged with Imperial College London in 1998, he became Head of the Division of Medicine and was responsible for bringing 600 staff together into the newly formed division. Mark Walport is a founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an Honorary Member of the American Association of Physicians. He previously served as a member of the Research and Development Advisory Board of SmithKline Beecham, as Registrar of the Academy of Medical Sciences and as a Governor of the Wellcome Trust. His research interests are the genetics of the complement system and inherited mechanisms of the susceptibility to autoimmune rheumatic disease. He was awarded the Roche Rheumatology Prize in 1991 and the Graham Bull Prize for Clinical Science (Royal College of Physicians) in 1996.