Membership

Details of the Council's members and register of interests.

The members are senior figures from the fields of science, engineering and technology. They are appointed by the Prime Minister, in line with guidance from the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments. CST invites non-members to join sub-groups to advise on specific pieces of work.

Chairs

  • Professor Dame Angela McLean DBE, FRS - Government Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Lord Browne of Madingley FRS, FREng - Senior Advisor on Climate and Net Zero, General Atlantic; Chairman of the Francis Crick Institute; Fellow and former President of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Members

  • Professor Julia Black CBE FBA FRSA, President, British Academy (ex-officio member)
  • Avid Larizadeh Duggan OBE - Senior Managing Director, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Teachers’ Venture Growth
  • Mark Enzer OBE FREng FIChemE FICE - Strategic Advisor, Mott MacDonald; Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge and Imperial College London
  • Professor Dame Lynn Gladden DBE FREng FRS - Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge
  • Professor Jim Hall FREng FICE - Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, University of Oxford
  • Saul Klein OBE - Co-founder and Managing Partner, Phoenix Court
  • Priya Lakhani OBE - Founder CEO, CENTURY-Tech
  • Dr John Lazar CBE FREng - President, Royal Academy of Engineering (ex-officio member)
  • Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS - Chief Executive, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (ex-officio member); Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  • Professor (Emeritus) Nick McKeown FREng - Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • Professor Andrew Morris CBE FRSE FMedSci – President, Academy of Medical Sciences (ex-officio member)
  • Professor Brooke Rogers OBE FRSA FHEA - Professor of Behavioural Science and Security and Vice Dean (People & Planning) for Social Science and Public Policy at King’s College London
  • Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FRS FREng FBCS - Professor of Computing Science at the University of Oxford; Principal of Jesus College, Oxford; Co-Founder and Chair of the Open Data Institute
  • Richard Slater - Chief R&D Officer, Unilever
  • Professor Sir Adrian Smith PRS - President, Royal Society (ex-officio member)
  • Paul Taylor CBE FREng - Director, Morgan Stanley International

‘Ex-officio members’ are people who become members automatically because they hold a particular office.

Observers

  • Dr Dave Smith - National Technology Adviser
  • Alexandra Jones - Director General, Science and Innovation at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)
  • Jessica Glover - Director General, Growth and Productivity at HM Treasury

Register of interests

Members are required to declare any personal, political or business interests that could, or could be seen to, influence their judgement.

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