Our governance
The Government Science and Engineering Profession board, consits of CSAs, Deputies and HoSEPs.
Members of the Government Science and Engineering (GSE) Profession Board are Heads of Science and Engineering Profession (HoSEPs). HoSEPs are responsible for championing the GSE Profession and ensuring that it meets the needs of the scientists and engineers in their organisations.
These individuals are often the Chief Scientific Advisers (CSAs) for their departments. Please see the list below of CSAs for departments.
Chair
- Sir Patrick Vallance – Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of GSE Profession
Members
Departments
- Dr Paul Monks – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Professor Stephen Belcher – Met Office
- Dr Julyan Elbro – Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
- Dr Jan-Theodoor (JT) Janssen – National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
- Professor Tom Rodden – Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS)
- Osama Rahman – Department for Education (DfE)
- Professor Gideon Henderson – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Professor Robin May – Food Standards Agency (FSA)
- Dr Doug Wilson – Environment Agency
- Dr Mike Short - Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
- Professor Sarah Sharples – Department for Transport (DfT)
- Trevor Huddleston – Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- Professor Andrew Curran – Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
- Professor Lucy Chappell - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
- Dr Vicki Chalker – Public Health England (PHE)
- Professor Charlotte Watts – Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
- Philip Duffy – HM Treasury (HMT)
- Jennifer Rubin - Home Office (HO)
- Professor Dame Angela McLean – Ministry of Defence
- Professor Alan Penn – Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Alex van Someren – National Security
- Professor Kathryn Monk – Natural Resources Wales (NRW)
- Professor Paul Taylor – UK Policing
- Vacant – Ministry of Justice
Devolved Administrations
- Professor Peter Halligan - Welsh government
- Professor Julie Fitzpatrick – Scottish government