Nurse review of research councils: reference group members
Updated 18 May 2015
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The advisory group will work closely with Sir Paul Nurse in considering the available evidence and formulating conclusions and recommendations.
A wider reference group has also been formed which will perform more of a consultative role. This group includes stakeholders representatives and international expertise which can test their emerging thinking.
1. Thomas Cech
Nobel Laureate, former President of Howard Hughes medical institute and Professor at the University of Colorado.
2. Sir Peter Gluckman
Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
3. Professor Ian Boyd
Chief Scientific Adviser to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
4. Baroness Onora O’Neill
Emeritus Honorary Professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge and former President of the British Academy.
5. Professor Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Nobel Laureate and Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.
6. Professor Sir John Cadogan
Inaugural President of the Learned Society of Wales and former director general of research councils at the Office of Science and Technology.
7. Sherry Coutu
Angel Investor and entrepreneur.
8. Richard Lambert
Chancellor of the University of Warwick and former director general of the CBI.
9. Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov
Nobel Laureate and Langworthy Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
10. Professor Dame Julia Slingo
Chief Scientist at the Met Office.
11. Colin Smith
Director of Engineering at Rolls Royce.
12. Professor Sir Alan Wilson
Professor of Urban and Regional Systems in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London.
13. Professor Rick Rylance
Chief Executive of AHRC; and Chair, research councils UK executive group, representing research councils UK.
14. Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen, representing Universities UK.
15. Professor Alistair Fitt
Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University, representing the University Alliance.
16. Professor Michael Arthur
President and Provost, University College London, representing the Russell Group.
17. Ruth McKernan
Chief Executive, representing Innovate UK.