ESRC The Economic and Social Research Council
Paul Boyle - Chief Executive of ESRC
- ESRC Chief Executive since September 2010
- Former Head of the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews
- Former Director of the ESRC funded Longitudinal Studies Centre in Scotland
- Former Co-Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Population Change
- Former Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded Scottish Health Informatics Programme and the ESRC-funded Administrative Data Liasion Service
STFC - The Science and Technology Facilities Council
Keith Mason - Chief Executive of STFC
BBSRC - The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Douglas Kell - Chief Executive of BBSRC
MRC - The Medical Research Council
John Savill - Chief Executive of MRC
- Chief Executive of MRC since October 2010
- Chief Scientist for the Scottish Government Health Directorates from 2008 to 2010
- Member of the MRC Council and Chair of two MRC Research Boards from 2002 to 2008
- Knighted in the 2008 New Year’s Honours List for services to clinical science
- Vice-principal and Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh
NERC - The Natural Environment Research Council
Alan Thorpe - Chief Executive of NERC
- Chief Executive of NERC since April 2005
- Degree in Physics (1973)
- Doctorate in Atmospheric Physics (1976)
- Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading (1991)
- Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre (1999 - 2001)
- Director of NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science (2001)
- Former Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society
Founding co-chair of the World Meteorological Organisation´s research programme ‘THORPEX: A world weather research programme´
- Assessor for the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs´ Science Advisory Committee
EPSRC - The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
David Delpy - Chief Executive of EPSRC
- Chief Executive of EPSRC since September 2007
- Vice-Provost for Research, University College London since 1999
- Head of the Medical Physics and Bioengineering Department at UCL from 1992 to 1999
- Hamamatsu Professor of Medical Photonics in 1991
- Senior Lecturer at UCL in 1986
- Principal Physicist in 1982
- Appointed Senior Physicist at University College Hospital with a major responsibility for the physiological monitoring equipment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, in 1976
AHRC - The Arts and Humanities Research Council
Rick Rylance - Chief Executive of AHRC
- AHRC Chief Executive since 2009
- Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Literatures at the University of Exeter, 2003-2009
- Dean of Arts and Letters at the then Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge, until 2003
- Current member of the Higher Education Committee of the English Association
- Former Chair of the English Sub-panel of the RAE 2008; former member of Main Panel M (Languages and Literature)
- Founder member of the English Subject Centre’s Advisory Board
- Founding Fellow of the English Association in 1999; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1998