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Professor David Southwood reappointed as Chair of the UK Space Agency Steering Board

Professor David Southwood has been reappointed as Chair of the UK Space Agency Steering Board.

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and UK Space Agency
• Published: 11 July 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

David holds the post of Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London where his research interests include solar terrestrial physics and planetary science.

David is a former President of the Royal Astronomical Society and was Director of Science and Robotic Exploration at the European Space Agency until 2011.

He was originally appointed to the UK Space Agency Steering Board in 2011 and appointed as Chair in 2016.

Published 11 July 2018