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Arup appointed to the Council for Science and Technology

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Charlotte S Charlotte Fernández UKIMEA Press Office,Leeds
26 March 2014

Prime Minister, David Cameron, has appointed five new members to the Council for Science and Technology (CST) including Arup’s Dervilla Mitchell.

The Council’s remit is to advise the Prime Minister on strategic science and technology policy issues that cut across the responsibilities of individual government departments.

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I am pleased that 5 new members will be joining the Council for Science and Technology. They bring a great breadth of experience and expertise and I am confident that their contributions will enable the council to continue to provide the very best advice to government on the scientific opportunities and challenges in the coming years. ” Sir Mark Walpot Government Chief Scientific Adviser

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I’m hugely honoured to be sitting on the Council and delighted that I’ll be able to contribute my expertise in advising on areas of science, technology and engineering. ” Dervilla Mitchell Dervilla Mitchell Deputy Chair

The other new members are: Professor Philip Bond, a visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and a visiting Professor at the University of Bristol; Anne Glover, Chief Executive of Amadeus Capital partners Ltd; Professor Sarah Harper, Professor at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College and Professor Fiona Murray, Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. 

The period of the appointment is from 24 March 2014 until 31 December 2016.