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CST register of members' interests

Updated 10 October 2024

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

Lord Browne of Madingley

(Last reviewed: September 2022)

Directorships

• Chairman (formerly Member), Supervisory Board, Wintershall Dea GmbH (oil and gas) (interest ceased 1 November 2021)
• Chairman, 1275 SA (wine storage)
• Chairman, Pattern Energy Group Inc (independent renewable energy company)
• Chairman, Windward Maritime Limited (maritime data and analytics)
• Director, IHS Markit (information and data services)
• Director, Madingley Ltd (consulting services)
• Director, 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)

Remunerated employment, office, profession

• Adviser, NEOS GeoSolutions (oil and gas services provider)
• Advisor, Loop Energy Inc (hydrogen fuel cells)
• Book royalties from Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Random House, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury and Pegasus
• Chairman, BeyondNetZero (climate investing)
• Chairman, Stanhope Capital Advisory Board (wealth management)
• Executive Chairman, L1 Energy (UK) LLP (energy) (interest ceased 1 November 2021)
• Founder, Partner and LLP Designated Member, Madingley Group LLP
• Member, Advisory Board, Blue Bear Capital (energy private equity)
• Member, Advisory Board, Giant Ventures (venture capital)
• 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)
• Senior Advisor, General Atlantic (growth equity investing)
• Speaking engagement, 18 May 2021, Citi ICG Sustainability, ESG and Alpha Conference, virtual event for Citi (bank)
• Speaking engagement, 20 September 2021, Mercer European Investment Forum, Park Plaza Riverbank, London
• Speaking engagement, 9 March 2021, virtual event Global Macro Investor Conference, Citigroup Global Markets
• The member provided mediation services from 1 September - 3 December 2021, in which one party was the government of the Republic of Mozambique; fees received: £97,050

Person with a significant control of a company

• Beyondnetzero Limited (formerly Madingley Group (2020) Limited)
• Madingley Group LLP
• Madingley Ltd

Shareholdings

• Beyondnetzero Limited (formerly Madingley Group (2020) Limited)
• Madingley Group LLP
• Madingley Ltd (consulting services)
• ChargePoint Inc (electric vehicle infrastructure)
• Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (research)
• IHS Markit (information services)
• International Environmental Standards PBC (greenhouse gas emissions measurement, monitoring and reporting)
• Kayrros SAS (predictive analytics for energy markets)
• Loop Energy Inc (hydrogen fuel cells)
• SATMAP Inc doing business as Afiniti (communications technology)
• SparkCognition Inc (artificial intelligence)
• Voyager Labs Limited (application of artificial intelligence to study of human behaviour)
• Windward Maritime Limited (maritime data and analytics company)

Non-financial interests

• Chairman, Advisory Board, Energy Futures Initiative
• Chairman, Advisory Board, Schillings LLP
• Chairman, Francis Crick Institute
• Member of Advisory Board, Edelman Ltd (public relations company)
• Member, Advisory Board, Giant Ventures (venture capital firm)
• Member, Advisory Board, Grafine Partners (investment firm)
• Chairman, International Advisory Board, Blavatnik School of Government (interest ceased 3 June 2021)
• Chairman, The Governing Board, The Courtauld Institute of Art
• Co-chair, 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
• Non-executive member, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
• Trustee, Royal Opera House
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, John Browne Charitable Trust
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, Queen Elizabeth Prize Foundation
• Honorary Vice President, British and Colombian Chamber of Commerce
• Member, Advisory Board, Guggenheim Museum
• 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, McKinsey Sustainability Advisory Council
• Member, Cancer Research UK
• Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Carbon Management, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

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

Professor Muffy Calder

(Last reviewed: February 2022)

Other public appointments held at present

• Chair, IPCO Technical Advisory Panel

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

• UKRI-EPSRC Council

Personal and business interests

• University of Glasgow
• Solenis UK Industries Ltd (husband)

Political activity

None

Other declarations

• Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering
• Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh

Suranga Chandratillake

(Last reviewed: January 2021)

Other public appointments held at present

None

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

None

Personal and business interests

• Partner, Balderton Capital

Political activity

• Member of Labour Party

Other declarations

None

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

Dr 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

Professor Max Lu

(Last reviewed: December 2023)

Other public appointments held at present

• Director, National Physics Laboratory
• Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey
• Council Member, All-Party Parliamentary University Group

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

• Board Member, Universities UK
• Board Member, UK Research and Innovation
• Chair, UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics

Personal and business interests

• President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Surrey
• Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering
• Member, NextGen Hydrogen Ltd Advisory Board

Political activity

None

Other declarations

None

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 Paul Newman

(Last reviewed: January 2021)

Other public appointments held at present

• Member, DfT Science Advisory Council

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

None

Personal and business interests

• Director, Oxbotica Limited
• Director, NewTechnos

Political activity

None

Other declarations

None

Professor Dame Carol Propper

(Last reviewed: February 2023)

Other public appointments held at present:

• Non-executive Board member, UK Statistics Authority

Previous Public Appointments held within the last 5 years:

None

Personal and Business Interests:

• Professor of Economics, Imperial College London
• Adjunct Professor of Economics, Monash University, Australia
• Deputy Editor, VOX EU
• Research Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• Council member, Royal Economic Society

Political activity:

None

Other declarations:

• Past President of the Royal Economic Society
• Fellow of the British Academy, US National Academy of Medicine, CEPR, Academy of Social Sciences

Professor Keith Ridgway

(Last reviewed: June 2024)

Other public appointments held at present:

• Chair, Industry Wales (June 2022 to May 2025)

Previous Public Appointments held within the last 5 years:

• Interim Chair, Industry Wales (September 2020 to June 2022)

Personal and Business Interests:

• Senior Executive – Manufacturing, University of Strathclyde
• Chair, Industry Wales, Operating as Sector Development Partnership Wales Ltd
• Non-Executive Director, Castings Technology Holdings Ltd
• Non-Executive Director, Net Zero Industry Wales Ltd
• Non-Executive Director, Technicut Ltd
• Director, KCR Manufacturing Ltd
• Governor, Sheffield Hallam University
• Director, Bridgway Global Ltd
• Director, Intelliam AI

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 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 Stein

(Last reviewed: July 2024)

Other public appointments held at present

• GCHQ Science Advisory Council
• DfT Science Advisory Council
• Nuclear Industries Research and Innovation Board (NIRAB)

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years

None

Personal and business interests

• CEO, Floral Energy Limited 

• Director, iRocket inc. 

• Advisor, Zap Energy Inc.

Political activity

None

Other declarations

None

Lord Stern of Brentford

(Last reviewed: April 2021)

See an up to date list of Lord Stern of Brentford’s interests.