STFC Council - Members register of interests

Each member of the Council is required to declare any personal or business interest direct or indirect, monetary or non-monetary that may conceivably conflict with the interest of the STFC (the areas include; university; industry; other government departments; other interests):

The Current Register for the members of Council:

Michael Sterling

Industry: Board Member (until December 2009) of Advantage West Midlands Board (Regional Development Agency for the West Midlands). Member (until December 2009) of West Midlands Innovation and Technology Council. Chairman of West Midlands ICT Steering Group (until December 2009); STEMNET and OCEPS Ltd
Other: Member of Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology; Council member of Foundation for Science and Technology; Member of the Nominations Committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering; Member of the Lunar Society


John Womersley

University: Oxford
Other: Visiting Professor at Oxford, UCL and Durham Universities. John's wife is an employee funded through the STFC grant to Oxford physics.


Gill Ball

University: Birmingham which is a recipient of STFC funding, Director of Finance; Guild of Students
Other: Alta Cyclotron Services Ltd; Alta Estate Services Ltd; Alta Library Services Ltd; Birmingham Research Park Ltd


Martin Barstow

University: Leicester, holder of STFC grant; head of College containing Departments holding STFC grants
Other: Secretary, Royal Astronomical Society; Fellow RAS; Fellow IoP; Family member studying for PhD in STFC supported research group; ISIC, on behalf of the University of Leicester


Marshall Davies

Other: Chair of STFC Audit Committee; Member of the STFC Remuneration Committee; Member of the HSIC (Harwell Science & Innovation Campus) Sub-Committee; Member of the HSIC Internal Planning Group; Member of the DSIC (Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus) Internal Planning Group; Member of the Executive Board for DLS Ltd (Diamond Light Source Ltd); Chairman of Audit Committee for DLS Ltd; Member of the Remuneration Committee DLS Ltd; Chairman of the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust; Justice of the Peace


Julia Goodfellow

University:Kent, Vice-Chancellor (paid employee)
Other Government departments: HEFCE (Research and Innovation Committee and Strategically Important and Vulnerable Subjects Advisory Group); Local Enterprise Partnership (Kent, Essex, East Sussex)
Other: British Science Association (Chair); STEMNET (Trustee); Daphne Jackson Trust (Trustee); East Malling Trust (Trustee); John Innes Foundation (Trustee); Universities UK (Board member)


Mike Healy

Industry: ISIC
Other Government Departments: UKSA; DfT


Peter Knight

University: Imperial College, Senior Principal at Imperial, responsible for College research strategy, and professor of quantum optics with research into high intensity lasers
Industry: Member of Advisory Committee at AWE ML; Director of Imperial's ICON company
Other Government Departments: Chair of DSAC at Ministry of Defence


James Stirling

University: Cambridge; Recipient as co-Investigator of STFC research grant (rolling grant to the DAMTP/Cavendish HEP Theory Groups); supervisor of STFC funded research students; visiting Professor at the University of Durham; Chair of the External Advisory Group to the Physics Department, Oxford University
Other: Fellow of the Royal Society and Institute of Physics; Wife is an employee of Christ's College, Cambridge University.


Ian Taylor

Industry: Non executive directorships - NextFifteen Communications plc; Speed Trap Holdings Ltd; Fentiman Consultants Ltd; Weee Systems Ltd (Chairman); Living PlanIT SA (Chairman); Member of ESA Integrated Applications Programme Committee
Other: Charity Trusteeship - Centre of the Cell; Cuba Initiative (Chairman)


Will Whitehorn

Industry interest: Chairman, Loewy Group Ltd; Chairman, Next Fifteen Communication PLC; Non-Executive Director, Stagecoach Group PLC (appointment from May 2011); Non-Executive Director, ILN Group Ltd
Other Government Departments: Space Leadership Council

Page last updated: 16 November 2011 by Hina Padhiar