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CST register of members' interests

Updated 13 March 2025

Professor Dame Angela McLean

(Last reviewed: July 2024)

Other public appointments held at present

• Government Chief Scientific Adviser

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

• Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence (until March 2023)

Personal and business interests

• Married to David van Oss, who is the sole Owner and Director of Waltonwell Ltd, a Non-Executive Director at Oxford Capital Partners Holdings Ltd and a retired PwC UK Partner

Political activity

None

Other declarations

• Fellow of the Royal Society
• Member of Academia Europaea
• Honorary Distinguished Professor, Loughborough University
• Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford
• Honorary Fellowship at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
• Honorary Fellowship of The Academy of Medical Sciences
• Fellowship of the Goodenough College
• Distinguished Fellow of the All Souls College, University of Oxford

Lord Browne of Madingley

(Last reviewed: March 2025)

Directorships

• Chairman, 1275 SA (wine storage) (interest ceased 1 December 2024)
• Chairman, Windward Maritime Limited (maritime data and analytics)
• Director, Madingley Ltd (consulting services)
• Director, Avathon (formerly SparkCognition) (artificial intelligence)
• Member, Board of Directors, The Oil & Gas Holding Company B.S.C. (nogaholding - the investment and development arm of the Bahraini government’s National Oil and Gas Authority) (the member’s annual earnings for this work are as follows: Fixed annual fee of US$212,218; a sitting fee of US$2,650 - 3,980 per meeting for attending a meeting of the Board of Directors; a sitting fee of US$1,330 – 1,990 per meeting for attending a meeting of any committee of the Board of Directors) (interest ceased 12 June 2024)
• Non-executive Director, Venterra Group Plc (wind energy development)
• Independent Chair and Non-executive Director, Carbonplace Limited (transaction and settlement network for voluntary carbon credit market) (remunerated but fees are donated to John Browne Charitable Trust without being received by member)

Remunerated employment, office, profession

• Adviser, NEOS GeoSolutions (oil and gas services provider)
• Book royalties from Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Random House, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury and Pegasus
• Chairman, BeyondNetZero (climate investing)
• Chairman, Stanhope Capital Advisory Board (wealth management)
• Chairman, Equatic Advisory Board (carbon removal)
• Founder, Partner and LLP Designated Member, Madingley Group LLP (partnership between Madingley Limited and member; also receives funds for consultancy work undertaken by member)
• Member, Stanhope Capital Board (wealth management)
• Member, Advisory Board, Blue Bear Capital (energy private equity)
• Member, Advisory Board, Giant Ventures (venture capital)
• Member, Advisory Board, Terrestrial Energy (integral molten salt reactor energy company)
• Member, Advisory Board, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
• Member, Advisory Board, International Environmental Standards PBC (greenhouse gas emissions measurement, monitoring and reporting)
• Member, Advisory Board, Kayrros SAS (predictive analytics for energy markets)
• Member, Board of Advisors, Angeleno Group (private equity; energy and power)

Person with a significant control of a company

• Beyondnetzero Limited (holds intellectual property)
• Madingley Group LLP (partnership between Madingley Limited and member; also receives funds for consultancy work undertaken by member)
• Madingley Ltd (consulting services)

Shareholdings

• Beyondnetzero Limited (holds intellectual property)
• Madingley Group LLP (partnership between Madingley Limited and member; also receives funds for consultancy work undertaken by member)
• Madingley Ltd (consulting services)
• ChargePoint Inc (electric vehicle infrastructure)
• Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (research)
• International Environmental Standards PBC (greenhouse gas emissions measurement, monitoring and reporting)
• Kayrros SAS (predictive analytics for energy markets)
• SATMAP Inc (trading as Afiniti) (communications technology)
• Avathon (formerly SparkCognition) (artificial intelligence)
• Voyager Labs Limited (application of artificial intelligence to study of human behaviour)
• Windward Maritime Limited (maritime data and analytics company)
• Allurion (medical technology company)
• Stanhope Capital (wealth management)
• Apolitical (government/political advisory)
• General Atlantic Beyond Net Zero (BNZ) Offshore Co-Invest (advisors for financial, industrial and climate sectors) (private equity investment)
• Blue Bear Capital Partners (energy, infrastructure and climate industries) (private equity investment)
• Q Energy (renewable energy infrastructure) (private equity investment)
• Riverstone (energy/power) (private equity investment)
• Braemar ChargePoint Investments (electric vehicle charging) (private equity investment)
• Portman Square Private Funds - Stanhope Entrepreneurs (food product, educational and training service sectors) (private equity investment)

Non-financial interests

• Chairman, Advisory Board, Energy Futures Initiative
• Chairman, Advisory Board, Schillings LLP (legal services)
• Member, Advisory Board, Edelman Ltd (public relations company)
• Member, Advisory Board, Giant Ventures (venture capital firm)
• Member, Advisory Board, Grafine Partners (investment firm)
• Member, McKinsey Sustainability Advisory Council
• Member, Advisory Board, Our Blue Planet, MacGillivray Freeman Films
• Member, Advisory Board, LGBTQ+ Board Alliance
• Independent Co-chair, Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology
• Elder Brother, Corporation of Trinity House
• Honorary Member, Advisory Board, Tsinghua School of Economics and Management
• Member, Advisory Board, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York, USA
• Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Carbon Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
• Emeritus Chair and Member, Advisory Council, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
• Chairman, The Governing Board, The Courtauld Institute of Art
• Trustee, Royal Opera House
• Member, Advisory Board, Peggy Guggenheim Collection
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, John Browne Charitable Trust
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, Queen Elizabeth Prize Foundation (interest ceased 17 April 2024)
• Chairman, Francis Crick Institute
• Honorary Vice President, British and Colombian Chamber of Commerce
• Member, Advisory Board, Stanford University Knight-Hennessey Scholarships
• Trustee, Blavatnik School of Government Foundation
• Trustee, Holocaust Educational Trust
• Trustee, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow
• Vice President, Flora and Fauna International
• Member, Cancer Research UK

Professor Julia Black

Ex-officio member.

(Last reviewed: December 2023)

Other public appointments held at present

• External member, Prudential Regulation Committee of the Bank of England
• External Member of the Financial Markets Infrastructure Board, Bank of England
• President, the British Academy

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

None

Personal and business interests

• Strategic Director of Innovation, and Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Director, LSE Enterprise Ltd
• Director, Zinc Ltd
• Member, Board of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Political activity

None

Other declarations

None

Avid Larizadeh Duggan

(Last reviewed: January 2025)

Other Public Appointments Held at Present

None

Previous Public Appointments Held Within the Last 5 Years

None

Personal and Business Interests

• Senior Managing Director at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
• Board member, Beamery
• Board member, Lendable
• Board member, Taxfix
• Board member, Kry
• Board member, Comply Advantage
• Board Director at Barclays UK and Barclays Services
• Number of public stocks
• Number of shares in private technology companies

Party Political Activity

None

Other Declarations

None

Mark Enzer

(Last reviewed: January 2025)

Other public appointments held at present

None

Previous Public Appointments Held Within the Last 5 Years

None

Personal and Business Interests

• Strategic advisor, Mott MacDonald and shareholder.
• Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge
• Visiting Professor, Imperial College London

Party Political Activity

None

Other Declarations

• Lieutenant Colonel, Staff Corps of 77th Brigade
• Industry papers on a variety of subjects related to the built environment and infrastructure

Professor Dame Lynn Gladden

(Last reviewed: January 2025)

Other public appointments held at present

• Science Advisory Board of National Research Foundation, Singapore
• Chair, Strategic Advisory Board, Austrian Institute of Technology

Previous Public Appointments Held Within the Last 5 Years

• Executive Chair EPSRC-UKRI (2018-2023)

Personal and Business Interests 

• Non-executive director of British Land plc and shareholder.
• Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge
• Advisor to BeyondNetZero
• Trustee of the Faraday Institution
• Member of the Shell Science Council
• Science Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
• Rapporteur for the extended evaluation of the Max Planck Institutes in Research Field IV of Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section (2025-2026)
• Chair of Judges, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Party Political activity

None

Other declarations

• NRF CRP grant calls

Professor Jim Hall

(Last reviewed: June 2024)

Other public appointments held at present

• National Infrastructure Commissioner, National Infrastructure Commission (from April 2022)
• Member, National Engineering Policy Centre – Net Zero Working Group (from January 2021)
• Member, National Flood Risk Assessment Independent Peer Review Group (from April 2020)
• Member, National Framework Senior Steering Group for water resources (from September 2018)
• Chair, Governance Board for the Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (from April 2017)
• Member, Defra’s Network of Evidence Experts (from September 2017)
• Member, Environment Agency’s Long-Term Investment Strategy Development Group (from March 2016)
• Member, UK Climate Adaption Research and Innovation Board (from October 2022)
• Chair, Advisory Group for the National Grid ESO Virtual Energy System programme. (from March 2023)

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

• Member, Adaptation Committee of the Committee on Climate Change (2009 to 2019)
• Member, OxCam Data Observatory Project Board (November 2020 to February 2021)
• Chair, Steering Group for the UKRI UK Climate Resilience Programme (from November 2019 to May 2023)

Personal and business interests

• Director, Oxford Infrastructure Analytics

Political activity

None

Other declarations

• Chair, Trustees of JBA Trust
• Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (from April 2021)
• Director of the Digital Task Force for Planning (from January 2023)
• Deputy Chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering Green Future Fellowship Steering Group (from May 2024)
• Member, Trustee Board of the Institution of Civil Engineers (November 2020 to November 2023)

Saul Klein

(Last reviewed: November 2022)

Other public appointments held at present

Non-Executive Director, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

• UK tech envoy to Israel 2012

Personal and business interests

• LBS executive fellow
• Directorship, Phoenix Court Spaces Limited
• Directorship, Senderwood Group Limited
• Directorship, Phoenix Court Works Limited
• Board member, Zinc Ventures Limited
• Board member, Faculty Science Limited
• Directorship, Radix DLT
• Directorship, Newton Venture Education
• Director, The Manchester Academy
• Director, Next Economy Works

Political activity

None

Other declarations

None

Priya Lakhani

(Last reviewed: January 2025)

Other public appointments held at present

None

Previous Public Appointments Held Within the Last 5 Years

• Non Executive Director of Department of Digital Culture Media and Sport – April 2021-April 2023
• Member of UK AI Council – August 2019-July 2023
• Trustee and England representative of Unboxed – September 2020-November 2022
• UK Review of Regulation and Innovation related to AI - December 22-March 23
• Member of UK Government Digital Economy Council – February 2021-April 2023

Personal and Business Interests

• CEO and Shareholder in CENTURY-Tech Limited
• BBC News co-host of AI Decoded and commentator across media on business and technology
• Small shareholder in Enterprise Alumni
• Small shareholder across FTSE tracker stocks
• Small shareholder in Blackrock tracker fund

Party Political Activity

None

Other Declarations

None

Sir John Lazar

Ex-officio member.

(Last reviewed: September 2024)

Other public appointments held at present

None

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

None

Personal and business interests

• Trustee & Chair, Raspberry Pi Foundation

• Trustee & Chair, R L Charitable Trust

• General Partner, Enza Capital Management GP (Mauritius, investing in African technology companies)

• Non-Executive Director, Mafami Proprietary Limited t/a Vula Mobile (South Africa, Enza investment)

• Non-Executive Director, Quro Medical Proprietary Limited (South Africa, Enza investment)

Party political activity

None

Other declarations

• Fellow & President, Royal Academy of Engineering

• Fellow, BCS

• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts Manufactures and Commerce

Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser

Ex-officio member.

(Last reviewed: September 2022)

Other public appointments held at present

• Chief Executive, UK Research and Innovation

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

None

Personal and business interests

None

Political activity

None

Other declarations

• Regius Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge
• Fellow, Clare College Cambridge
• Fellow, The Royal Society
• Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation
• Fellow, Royal Society of Biology
• Foreign Associate, National Academy of Science, USA
• Member, Leopoldina
• Member, Genetics Society
• Member, British Society for Developmental Biology
• Fellow, Science Museum
• Honorary Fellow, Academy of Medical Science
• Member, Academia Europaea
• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts Manufactures and Commerce
• Honorary Doctorates: Swedish Agricultural University, Norwegian University for Science and Technology, University of Aberdeen, Guelph University
• Honorary Professorship, University of York
• Grant holder, Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Nick McKeown

(Last reviewed: January 2025)  

Remunerated employment, office, profession

• Senior Fellow, Intel (20% time)
• Technical Advisory Board, AI21
• Adviser, Delos Data

Shareholdings

• Intel (as employee)
• Investor, Venture Capital firms:
  • Sequoia Capital 
  • Andreessen Horowitz 
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners 
  • Benchmark 
  • SV Angel 
  • Eclipse Fund 
  • Catalyst 
  • SNR -3dB 
  • Vertex 
  • Vida 
  • Giant Ventures  
• Investor, startups:
  • World Labs, Inc  
  • Delos Data 
  • Bimodal  
  • Cerebras  
  • Coalition 
  • Current 
  • Tenstorrent  
  • Timescale 
  • Vicarious 
  • Noir Espresso  
  • Forward Networks  
  • Ello  

Non-financial interests

• Advisory Board, International Rescue Committee, Airbel Innovations
• Professor (Emeritus) of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• Visiting Professor, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University

Professor Andrew Morris 

Ex-officio member.

(Last reviewed: July 2024) 

Other public appointments held at present 

• Director, Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) 

• Chair of the Scottish Government Standing Committee on Pandemic Preparedness 

• Professor of Medicine and Vice Principal of Data Science at the University of Edinburgh 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years 

• Chair, Scottish Government COVID-19 Advisory Group 

Personal and business interests 

• Minor shareholder in Aridhia Informatics

Political activity

None

Other Declarations

None

Professor Brooke Rogers

(Last reviewed: December 2023)

Other public appointments held at present

• Member, UKRI Building a Secure and Resilient World Advisory Board (2023 – ongoing)
• Member of the DSTL External Review College (November 2022)
• Police Science Advisory Council (2022 – ongoing)
• Independent Scientific Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Modelling and Health Economics (2022 – ongoing)
• Covid Infection Survey Advisory Board Sub-group (2021 - ongoing)
• The Welsh Government Technical Advisory Group (TAG) (COVID-19) (2021 - ongoing)
• UKHSA Behavioural Science Insights Unit (BSIU) External Advisory Group (2021 – ongoing)
• Digital Security by Design Social Science Hub+ (DiscribeHub) Advisory Board (2021– ongoing)
• PHE Behavioural Science Insights Unit (BSIU) External Advisory Group (2021 – ongoing)
• DfE/DHSC/UUK Higher Education Expert Group (COVID-19) (2021 – ongoing)
• Co-Chair, Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) in response to COVID-19 (2020 to present)
• Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) participant throughout COVID-19 (2020 – ongoing)
• Defra CBRN Recovery Science Advisory Group (2020 – ongoing)
• International Olympic Committee Independent Expert Panel (2020 – 2022)
• National Preparedness Commission (2020 – ongoing)
• Home Office Science and Technology Oversight Governance Board (2019- ongoing)
• Chair, Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC) (2019 - ongoing)
• Counter Terror Preparedness Network (Academic Advisory Board) (2018- ongoing)
• Combating Jihadist Terrorism and Extremism (CO-JIT) Advisory Board (2018 – ongoing)
• Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC) (2017- ongoing)
• External Advisor, Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime (CENTRIC) Research Advisory Board (2015 – ongoing)
• Cabinet Office Infrastructure Security and Resilience Industry Forum (ISRIF) (2015 – ongoing)
• Chair, Cabinet Office Behavioural Science Expert Group (BSEG) (2013 – ongoing)
• Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) Expert (2014 – ongoing)
• Cabinet Office Communities Prepared National Group (CPNG) (2013 – ongoing)

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

• Swedish Research Council Interdisciplinary Expert Panel on Society Security (2021)
• Public Health England Behavioural Science Advisory Group (2018- 2021)
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop Committee on Epidemiological Surveillance following a Nuclear or Radiological Incident (USA) (2018 - 2019)
• Reduce Explosive Violence Increase Victim Empowerment (REVIVE) (2019)
• London Resilience Communicating with the Public Group (Greater London Authority) (2013- Dormant)
• Greater London Authority (GLA) London Resilience Academic Group (2013 – Dormant)
• Thorpe Lea Elementary (Governor) (2017 – 2019)

Personal and business interests

• Professor of Behavioural Science and Security, King’s College London, Department of War Studies
• Director, DETER Analysis
• Vice-Dean (People & Planning) Social Science and Public Policy, King’s College London

Political activity

None

Other declarations

Project funding received from:

• Senior Advisor at ResilienC (October 2022 – ongoing)
• Swedish Research Council
• Defra
• Government Office for Science (admin/teaching support during COVID-19)
• National Institute of Health Research
• The European Commission
• EPSRC
• ESRC
• AHRC
• CPNI
• Deloitte
• GDS
• Avon and Somerset Police
• Home Office
• Cabinet Office
• CDE
• DSTL
• Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nuclearie IRSN
• British Energy
• EDF
• BPS
• Unilever

Consulting, lectures, and media fees received from:

• Cabinet Office
• Home Office
• DSTL
• BBC
• ITV
• SKY
• France 24
• Emergency planning College
• Prospect Magazine
• RUSI
• IISS
• International Centre for Parliamentary Studies (ICPS)
• North-eastern University Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad)
• Indiana University – Purdue
• Public Policy Exchange
• University of London International Programmes
• IAEA
• Canadian Government
• US Government
• Voice of Russia Radio
• AON Risk Solutions
• NATO
• Redline Aviation
• CENTRA Technology
• DURACORP
• London Technology Network

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt

(Last reviewed: January 2025)

Other public appointments held at present

None

Previous Public Appointments Held Within the Last 5 Years

• Member CMA Independent Digital Expert 2023-2024

Personal and Business Interests

• Principal, Jesus College Oxford
• Professor of Computing Science, University of Oxford
• Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford
• Chairman, The Open Data Institute
• Non Executive Director, Monks Investment Trust and Shares
• Non Executive Director, Benevolent AI Ltd and Share Options
• Non Executive Director, VEER Technologies Ltd and Shares
• Director Augmented Intelligence Ltd and Shares
• Trustee of the Rhodes Trust
• Non Executive Director Rhodes House Ltd

Party Political Activity

None

Other Declarations

• Fellow of the Royal Society
• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
• Fellow of the British Computer Society
• Fellowship of the Goodenough College
• Visiting Professor Univeristy of Southampton
• Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute

Richard Slater

(Last reviewed: January 2025)

Other public appointments held at present

None

Previous Public Appointments Held Within the Last 5 Years 

• Member of UK Business Innovation Forum

Personal and Business Interests

• Chief R&D Officer and member of executive team, Unilever
• Non-Executive Director Future Origins (non-remunerated)

Party Political Activity

None

Other Declarations

None

Professor Sir Adrian Smith

Ex-officio member.

(Last reviewed: February 2021)

Other public appointments held at present

• President, Royal Society
• Chair, Board Diamond Light Source, Harwell
• Board member, UKAEA
• Member, UK AI Council

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

• Deputy Chair, UK Statistics Authority
• Member, Scientific Advisory Committee GCHQ

Personal and business interests

None

Party political activity

None

Conflict of Interest

None

Other declarations

None

Paul Taylor

(Last reviewed: January 2025)

Other public appointments held at present

• Non-executive adviser to Defence Technology & Innovation Board

Previous Public Appointments Held Within the Last 5 Years

None

Personal and Business Interests

• Director, Morgan Stanley International, PLC
• Chair, Interrupt Labs Ltd
• Chair, Beyond Blue Ltd
• Fellow, Trustee and Chair of Enterprise Committee, Royal Academy of Engineering
• Lay member of Council, Loughborough University

Party Political Activity

None

Other Declarations

None