Jo Churchill MP, United Kingdom
Jo Churchill is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Minister for Agri-Innovation and Climate Adaptation). In 2019, Jo was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care, helping to lead the government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Jo was the first female elected as a Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds in 2015, re-elected again in 2017 and for a third time in 2019 with the biggest majority in constituency history. In Parliament Jo has sat on both the Women and Equalities and Environmental Audit select committees. She also sat on several All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) including Rural Services and Pig and poultry APPGs and founded the personalised medicine APPG. In 2016 Jo became a PPS and in 2018 was appointed an Assistant Government Whip in HM Government.
Professor Tom Welton, United Kingdom
Professor Tom Welton is the current President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at Imperial College London, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. He has spent most of his career studying the properties of ionic liquids, their interactions with solutes, and the resulting effects on chemical reactions. He was the world's first Professor of Sustainable Chemistry in 2004. He is also a vocal advocate for inclusion and diversity in the chemical sciences. He became President of the Royal Society of Chemistry in July 2020.
Professor Matthew Davidson, United Kingdom
Matthew Davidson is Director of the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) at the University of Bath, and Executive Director of the Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST). He is also Whorrod Professor of Sustainable Chemical Technologies and leads the Catalysis for the Circular Economy strand of the UK Catalysis Hub. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is a previous recipient of the Harrison Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship.
Dr Vicki Gardiner, Australia
Dr Vicki Gardiner is the current President of the Commonwealth Chemistry, Federation of Chemical Sciences Societies, and the immediate Past President of the Royal Australian Chemistry Institute (RACI) and a board director of the ARRB Group, Australia’s national transport research organisation. She is a Chartered Chemist and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) and Companion and Engineering Executive of Engineers Australia. She has held senior management positions in academia, government, SME and industry not-for-profits.
Dr Richard Daniels, United Kingdom
Richard Daniels is Director of HSE’s Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD), taking up post in March 2020. He joined HSE in 1992 as an inspector following completion of his PhD in physics at Manchester University. He has held numerous leadership positions during his career, most recently as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Explosives and was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Explosive Engineers.
His current responsibilities include leading c370 staff in CRD to support the safe and sustainable use of chemicals in the UK. As Senior Responsible Officer for overseeing HSE’s arrangements for transitioning CRD (on behalf of HSE) into Great Britain’s Chemicals Regulator, he successfully delivered the immediate changes required for 1 January 2021 operations. His focus is to continue to build and strengthen CRD’s capabilities, ensuring its transition to a regulator fit for the future following the UK’s departure from the EU. He is joint Chair of the UK Chemicals Governance Group, which supports the future strategic delivery of chemicals regulation in the UK.
