Dame Sue represents the UK on a number of international review and oversight committees for the nuclear sector including the Euratom Science and Technology Committee, which she Chairs, and the US Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Advisory committee. She was the UK’s representative on the IAEA Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy 2000-2006.

Dame Sue Ion was a non-Executive Director on the Board of the Laboratory of the UK Health and Safety Executive 2006-2015. She has been a member of the ONR’s Technical Advisory Panel since 2014. She was a member of the UK Council for Science and Technology from 2004-2011, a member of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council from 1994-2001, a member of Council for EPSRC between 2005 and 2010 and Chaired the Fusion Advisory Board for the Research Councils between 2006 and 2012.

Sue’s background is in materials science/metallurgy. She gained a first class honours from Imperial College in 1976 and a PhD in 1979 before joining BNFL where she was Group Director of Technology 1992-2006. She was appointed Visiting Professor at Imperial College in 2006 and of London South Bank University in 2011 and has been a member of the Board of Governors at the University of Manchester since 2004 becoming Deputy Chair in 2015. She has held an Honorary Professorship at the University of Central Lancashire since the beginning of 2007.

Dame Sue was Vice President and Member of Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering between 2002 and 2008. She is Chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s MacRobert Committee.

Tim Abram has held the Westinghouse Chair in Nuclear Fuel Technology (and more recently in Nuclear Engineering) at the University of Manchester since 2008. Prior to this he gained over 20 years research experience in nuclear fuels and advanced reactors technology in the UK (at BNFL and the National Nuclear Laboratory) and in the USA (at Westinghouse). He has experience in the design, performance and safety analysis of all major fuel and reactor types, and in the development of computer codes for the analysis of fuel performance. He has participated in over 15 EU Framework projects in nuclear fuel and reactor technology, and is the UK’s representative on the IAEA TWG on Fast Reactors. He was co-author of the Fuels and Materials section of the first Gen-IV Roadmap, and was the Euratom representative and Chair of the VHTR Fuel and Fuel Cycle Board. Prior to joining the University, Prof. Abram was the Senior Research Fellow for Fuels and Reactor Systems at NNL, where he retains the position of Senior Visiting Fellow. He has been an External Examiner for the Royal Navy’s nuclear engineering programmes, and for the University of Cambridge MPhil in Nuclear Engineering. He has served as an advisor to UK Government, and was a member of NIRAB from 2014-16. Prof. Abram is the Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre for Nuclear Science and Engineering, and leads the new Manchester Nuclear Fuel Centre of Excellence: a collaboration between the University and NNL that undertakes research into U, Th, and Pu-bearing nuclear fuel materials. Since 2009, Prof. Abram has led the development of the U-Battery: a 10 MWt micro-reactor based on a prismatic HTR design, which is currently being developed by a consortium led by Urenco. His research group has also contributed to the development of the Stable Salt Reactor: a molten salt reactor design being developed by Moltex Energy.

Derek has over 30 years industrial and R&D experience in the Energy sector with large multinational organisations including GE, ABB and Alstom Power, his work has been primarily related to the technology development of turbines and generators for conventional fossil and nuclear power plants.

During his career he has managed a broad spectrum of technical and R&D business divisions, both in the UK and overseas, including Advanced Materials, Engine and Component Testing and Control & Instrumentation. He was also responsible for external collaborations, involving strategic technology partnerships with SMEs, large Companies, and Universities.

He originally joined the Technology Strategy Board (now Innovate UK) on a part-time secondment from Alstom Power in July 2007 and moved on a permanent basis in 2012. He is their Lead Technologist for Energy Generation & Supply, with specific responsibility for the nuclear sector and is also the programme manager of the newly created Energy Catalyst, formed to accelerated innovation in the energy sector from concept through to commercialisation.

He is a member of a number of national and international panels and committees including; Co-Chairman of the European Technology Platform for Advanced Materials, Chairman of the Materials UK Energy Group, member of the Energy Technologies Institute Technical Committee and Programme Management Board. In 2010 he was awarded the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining Gold Medal for his contribution to the industrial application of materials.

Richard has 30 years of experience in the nuclear community within industry, government and academia in both the civil and defence sectors. His technical background is in radiation chemistry and environmental modelling.

Richard is currently the Managing Director at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation; shareholder of the LR Group and one of largest charitable foundations in UK in terms of revenue, focussed on engineering science, research and education. His previous roles include, Global Nuclear Director Lloyd’s Register, MD UK National Nuclear Centre of Excellence, Chief Scientist UK Atomic Weapons Establishment, Professor and Director of Dalton Nuclear Institute, and Faculty Research Dean at The University of Manchester and Group Science Director British Nuclear Fuels.

Steven became Director of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Laboratory in September 2008 and Chief Executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority in November 2009. He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD. from Princeton University. Professor Cowley’s post-doctoral work was at Culham laboratory and he returned to Princeton in 1987. He joined the faculty at the University of California Los Angeles in 1993 rising to the rank of Full Professor in 2000. From 2001 to 2003 he lead the plasma physics group at Imperial College London. He remains a part time professor at Imperial College. From 2004 to 2008 he was the Director of the Center for Multi-scale Plasma Dynamics at UCLA. His main research interest is in realising fusion power and has published over 150 papers on: the origin of magnetic fields in the universe, the theory of plasma turbulence and explosive behaviour in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.

Professor Cowley co-chaired the US National Academy’s decadal assessment of, and outlook for plasma science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics and the recipient of the IOP’s 2012 Glazebrook Medal for leadership in physics. Currently he is also a member of the Prime Ministers Council on Science and Technology and in May 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Robin is the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chief Scientific Adviser. He is also Professor of Materials Physics at Imperial College and was previously Director of the Imperial College Centre for Nuclear Engineering and the Rolls Royce University Technology Centre in Nuclear Engineering.

His primary research interest is the application and development of computer simulation techniques to predict structural and dynamic properties of inorganic materials for energy applications to improve performance of semiconductors for solar and electrolytes and electrodes for fuel cells, nuclear fuel for higher burn-up and waste forms of greater durability. He has published over 260 scientific papers.

He was the specialist adviser to the UK House of Lords for their 2011 review of Nuclear Research Requirements for the UK, a member of the Royal Society Working Group on nuclear non-proliferation and the Ad Hoc Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board chaired by Sir John Beddington.

Paul is currently working as Advisor to URENCO in the area of SMR development. Paul holds MA and D.Phil degrees in Chemistry from Oxford University and has worked for more than 35 years in the Nuclear Industry in a variety of roles encompassing nuclear chemical plant management, commissioning and decommissioning project management, commercial and Nuclear Licensed Site General Management.

Malcolm holds a Personal Chair in Nuclear Engineering at Lancaster University, and is currently Head of the Engineering Department at Lancaster. His area of research interest is in the field of Control & Instrumentation (C&I) and the development of radiation detection instruments including: portable neutron spectrometry; decommissioning-related analytical methods; nuclear policy and environmental consequences; medical radiotherapy and radiation effects.

Malcolm is author on over 100 refereed journal articles including 26 refereed outputs and two patents since 2008, primarily in the field of digital mixed-field radiation assay with fast, organic liquid scintillation detectors. Prior to this he spent four years in research in industry. He led the research team at Lancaster in 2010 that wrote the Nuclear Lessons Learned report on behalf of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Engineering the Future, which was commended by the Minister of State for Energy, HMG Chief Scientist and Lord Browne.

Bill is a member of the Leverhulme Trust Panel of Advisors, the Royal Academy of Engineering International Activities Committee, and the Scientific and Environmental Advisory Board Tokamak Energy plc. He was previously Deputy Chair of the Government advisory Committee on Radioactive Waste Management from 2007-2013, has acted as special advisor nuclear to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee (2013) and was from 2006 to 2010 Head of the Department of Materials at Imperial. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Ceramic Society and an IAEA Technical Expert.

Bill is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, IOMMM, ACerS and the City and Guilds Institute.

David Senior is a Deputy Chief Inspector with the United Kingdom’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). David is an Executive Member of the ONR Board and currently Director of Regulatory Assurance.

Previously David was a Programme Director across two of ONR’s front line operational programmes the Defence Programme and the Decommissioning, Fuel & Waste Programme. In this capacity David had responsibility for the regulation of nuclear safety at 26 nuclear licensed and non- licensed sites across the UK and the strategic interface with Government Departments and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

David has also operated as a Deputy Director responsible for Nuclear & Radioactive Waste Policy the UK Government’s Department of Energy & Climate Change. He was responsible for civil nuclear and radioactive waste policy both within the UK and Internationally, providing strategic direction and working closely with Government Ministers.

David is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and has extensive regulatory experience across the wider nuclear industry acquired over 20 years. He was responsible for delivering a landmark regulatory policy that has secured a stage-wise reduction in stocks of heat generating highly active liquor stocks in the United Kingdom, and thus securing wider international confidence.

Andrew studied Metallurgy at Manchester where he did his PhD with Rolls-Royce before joining the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in 1987 where he led research into materials ageing and structural integrity.

Andrew joined The University of Manchester in 2004 as Director of the Materials Performance Centre, and was appointed Director of the University’s Dalton Nuclear Institute in 2009 where he established the flagship Dalton Cumbrian Facility, a partnership with the NDA in radiation science and decommissioning and led Manchester’s partnership with Sheffield University to create the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. In 2015, Andrew was appointed as Chief Science and Technology Officer at NNL. He is a member of the UK’s Nuclear Industrial Council, leading work on public engagement.

Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining and a Chartered Engineer.

Sir Mark is the Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government and Head of the Government Office for Science. Previously, Sir Mark was Director of the Wellcome Trust, which is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health by supporting the brightest minds. Before joining the Trust he was Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medicine at Imperial College London.

He has been a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology since 2004. He has also been a member of the India UK CEO Forum, the UK India Round Table and the advisory board of Infrastructure UK and a non-executive member of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research. He is a member of a number of international advisory bodies.

He has undertaken independent reviews for the UK Government on the use and sharing of personal information in the public and private sectors: ‘Data Sharing Review’ (2009); and secondary education: ‘Science and Mathematics: Secondary Education for the 21st Century’ (2010).

He received a knighthood in the 2009 New Year Honours List for services to medical research and was elected as Fellow of The Royal Society in 2011.

Chairman, Comittee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM)