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Previous officers 129

  1. Dr Heather Tewkesbury 2024-2024 Director View profile
  2. Professor Christine Susan Mary Currie 2024-2025 Director View profile
  3. Dr Gilbert Kwame Owusu 2022-2025 Director View profile
  4. Professor Vania Sena 2021-2024 Director View profile
  5. Rosemary Byde 2021-2023 Director View profile
  6. John Charles Larrainzar Medhurst 2020-2025 Director View profile
  7. Nicola Morrill 2019-2023 Director View profile
  8. Professor Edmund Kieran Burke 2019-2023 Director View profile
  9. Professor Susan Margaret Howick 2019-2021 Director View profile
  10. Alistair Richard Clark 2018-2020 Director View profile
  11. Alan Robinson 2017-2022 Director View profile
  12. Jonathan Batson 2017-2020 Director View profile
  13. Dr Pavel Alexei Albores-Barajas 2016-2019 Director View profile
  14. Dr Suchi Patel Collingwood 2016-2016 Director View profile
  15. Richard William Eglese 2016-2021 Director View profile
  16. Dr Janet Elizabeth Williams 2016-2021 Director View profile
  17. Dr Martin Horacio Kunc 2015-2017 Director View profile
  18. Sayara Firdaus Beg 2015-2019 Director View profile
  19. Alexander Frederick Sheen 2015-2015 Director View profile
  20. Roger Arthur Forder 2013-2015 Director View profile
  21. Ruth Anne Kaufman 2012-2018 Director View profile
  22. John Hopes 2012-2021 Director View profile
  23. Dr Josephine Smedley 2012-2014 Director View profile
  24. Frances Ann O'Brien 2012-2017 Director View profile
  25. Jane Parkin 2012-2015 Director View profile
  26. John Raymond Hopes 2011-2011 Director View profile
  27. Dr Geoff Royston 2011-2014 Director View profile
  28. Professor Jeffrey Deacon Griffiths 2010-2015 Director View profile
  29. William Brooks Dowsland 2009-2011 Director View profile
  30. Professor Stewart Leslie Robinson 2009-2016 Director View profile
  31. Crocker, John, Doctor 2007-2011 Director View profile
  32. Ruth Marie Davies 2007-2007 Director View profile
  33. Sandra Caroline Weddell 2007-2012 Director View profile
  34. Stuart Lionel Johns 2007-2011 Director View profile
  35. Professor Keith Brian Haley 2007-2009 Director View profile
  36. Dr David Neil Halsall 2006-2006 Director View profile
  37. Dr Janet Elizabeth Williams 2006-2006 Director View profile
  38. Dr Mark David Elder 2006-2006 Director View profile
  39. Luis Alberto Franco 2005-2006 Director View profile
  40. Robert Bauke Van Der Meer 2005-2006 Director View profile
  41. Mark Miles Westcombe 2005-2006 Director View profile
  42. Dr Sally Caroline Brailsford 2004-2008 Director View profile
  43. Proudlove, Nathan Charles, Sr 2004-2006 Director View profile
  44. Joanna Keefe 2004-2006 Director View profile
  45. Dr Paul Robert Harper 2004-2006 Director View profile
  46. Dr Julia Allison Bennell 2004-2006 Director View profile
  47. Peter Leslie Dunkerley 2004-2006 Director View profile
  48. Dr Ruth Helen Kowalczuk 2004-2005 Director View profile
  49. Colin Livingstone Craig 2004-2006 Director View profile
  50. Susan Margaret Merchant 2004-2010 Director View profile
  51. Ian Macfarlane Mitchell 2003-2012 Director View profile
  52. Ceri Anne Cooper 2003-2005 Director View profile
  53. Prof Valerie Belton 2003-2006 Director View profile
  54. George Dunlop Paterson 2003-2007 Director View profile
  55. Dr Alan Thomas Jessop 2003-2005 Director View profile
  56. David Charles Lane 2002-2006 Director View profile
  57. Mik Wisniewski 2002-2004 Director View profile
  58. Simon Michael Dennis 2001-2006 Director View profile
  59. John Hough 2001-2003 Director View profile
  60. James Gibb 2001-2004 Director View profile
  61. Michael William Hancock 2001-2003 Director View profile
  62. Professor Christopher Nigel Potts 2001-2003 Director View profile
  63. Peter David Laurence Becque 2000-2005 Director View profile
  64. Dr Alan Michael Wadsworth 2000-2006 Director View profile
  65. Professor John Kimball Friend 2000-2002 Director View profile
  66. Barry Stanley Grant 2000-2003 Director View profile
  67. Dr Andrew Mark Tobias 2000-2002 Director View profile
  68. Veronica Jane White 1999-2001 Director View profile
  69. Dr Khairy Ahmed Helmy Kobbacy 1999-2003 Director View profile
  70. Kenneth Campbell Roy 1999-2001 Director View profile
  71. Penelope Mary Mullen 1999-2001 Director View profile
  72. Christopher John Smith 1998-2002 Director View profile
  73. David Stuart Parlby 1998-2000 Director View profile
  74. Williams, Terence Mervyn, Doctor 1998-2001 Director View profile
  75. Brian Alexander Lehaney 1998-2000 Director View profile
  76. John Malcolm Norman 1997-2000 Director View profile
  77. John Stewart Wilkes 1997-1999 Director View profile
  78. Dr Walter Philip Willers 1997-1999 Director View profile
  79. David Graham Johnson 1997-1998 Director View profile
  80. Professor Warren Garland Gilchrist 1997-1999 Director View profile
  81. Professor Robert Graham Dyson 1997-2000 Director View profile
  82. Dr John Charles Ranyard 1996-1999 Director View profile
  83. James Macdonald Freeman 1996-2001 Director View profile
  84. Andre Paul Gravel Hare 1996-1998 Director View profile
  85. Professor Hilary Paul Williams 1996-1998 Director View profile
  86. Alexander Jason Orman 1995-2000 Director View profile
  87. John Desmond Ryan 1995-1997 Director View profile
  88. Geoffrey Peters 1995-1997 Director View profile
  89. Robert Victor Simons 1995-1995 Director View profile
  90. George Henry Mitchell 1994-1994 Director View profile
  91. Professor George Simon French 1994-1994 Director View profile
  92. Professor Robert Alan Fildes 1994-1997 Director View profile
  93. Professor Norman Lamont Lawrie 1994-1994 Director View profile
  94. Professor Richard John Ormerod 1993-1993 Director View profile
  95. Michael Pidd 1993-2002 Director View profile
  96. Alison Joan Geddes 1993-1994 Director View profile
  97. David John Hallett 1992-1995 Director View profile
  98. Dr David Charles Lane 1992-1997 Director View profile
  99. Dr John Francis Pugh 1992-1993 Director View profile
  100. Ann Rosemary Taket 1992-1994 Director View profile
  101. Dr Paul Nicholas Finlay 1992-1997 Director View profile
  102. Dr John Charles Mingers 1992-1994 Director View profile
  103. Carole Alison Roberts 1992-1994 Director View profile
  104. Dr John Steven Edwards 1992 Director View profile
  105. Dr Jonathan Hilary Klein 1991 Director View profile
  106. Richard Anthony Nicholls 1993 Director View profile
  107. Richard Barrington Blackham 1996 Director View profile
  108. Dr Kenneth Gregory 1997 Director View profile
  109. Professor Lyn Carey Thomas 1996 Director View profile
  110. Paul Nicholas Thornton 1992 Director View profile
  111. Kenneth James Evans 1992 Director View profile
  112. Ian John Bennett 1992 Director View profile
  113. Professor Christopher Baker Chapman 1994 Director View profile
  114. Ian James Disley 1998 Director View profile
  115. Brian Charles Dangerfield 1991 Director View profile
  116. James Alfred Shalliker 1994 Director View profile
  117. Jillian Pamela Edge 1992 Director View profile
  118. Professor Maurice Francis Shutler 1991 Director View profile
  119. Prof James William Bryant 1994 Director View profile
  120. Professor Anthony Hugh Christer 1994 Director View profile
  121. Nigel Monk 1996 Director View profile
  122. Dr Duncan Arthur Conway 1991 Director View profile
  123. Vincent Ralph Lawrence Hopkinson 1996 Director View profile
  124. Graham Kennedy Rand 1991 Director View profile
  125. David Michael Mell 1994 Director View profile
  126. Gavin Blackett 2025-2025 Secretary View profile
  127. Sebastian James Hargreaves 2023-2024 Secretary View profile
  128. Ian Gavin Blackett 2006-2022 Secretary View profile
  129. Julian Fielden Miles 2006 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Activities of professional membership organizations
Incorporated
30/06/1960
Registered office
London
Also a registered charity
Operational Research Society Limited
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

11 directors on the board

4.9y median 2.5y
average tenure
30.5y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Tech and media 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Gaps to watch

  • No director brings board experience from anywhere else
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: a director with board experience elsewhere; directors from a wider range of sectors.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00663819
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Accounts next due
30/09/2027
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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