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 - President of the British Academy and Strategic Director of Innovation and Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (ex-officio member)
  • Professor Muffy Calder OBE, FREng, FRSE - Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science & Engineering, University of Glasgow
  • Suranga Chandratillake FREng - General Partner at Balderton Capital

  • Professor Jim Hall FREng, FICE - Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, University of Oxford

  • Saul Klein - Co-founder and Managing Partner, Phoenix Court
  • 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 Max Lu FAA, FTSE, FIChemE, FRSC - President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey
  • Dr John Lazar CBE FREng - President of the Royal Academy of Engineering (ex-officio member)
  • Professor Andrew Morris CBE FRSE FMedSci - President of the Academy of Medical Sciences (ex-officio member)
  • Professor Paul Newman FREng, FIEEE, FIET - BP Professor of Information Engineering at University of Oxford; Founder and CTO of Oxbotica
  • Professor Dame Carol Propper DBE, FBA, International Fellow NAM, FASS – Professor of Economics at Imperial College London, Business School
  • Professor Keith Ridgway CBE, FREng, FIMechE HonFRAeS, FRINA, FCGI, Senior Executive – manufacturing, University of Strathclyde
  • 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 Adrian Smith FRS - President, Royal Society (ex-officio member)
  • Paul Stein CBE FREng FIET FRAeS - Former Chairman, Rolls-Royce SMR Limited
  • Lord Stern of Brentford - Chair of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics

‘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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