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CST register of members' interests

Updated 16 December 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
  • 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: 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.