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Previous officers 155

  1. Dr Allison Kathryn Lang 2025-2025 Director View profile
  2. Professor George Peacock Copland Salmond 2024-2024 Director View profile
  3. Dr Jack Ferguson 2024-2025 Director View profile
  4. Professor Kalaimathee Narasimhan 2024-2024 Director View profile
  5. Dr Geertje Van Keulen 2024-2024 Director View profile
  6. Professor Sheila Patrick 2024-2024 Director View profile
  7. Dr Catrin Elisabeth Moore 2023-2024 Director View profile
  8. Karen Reed 2023-2025 Director View profile
  9. Joanne Kite 2023-2024 Director View profile
  10. Dr Sarah Elizabeth Maddocks 2022-2024 Director View profile
  11. Professor Gillian Daphne Elliott 2022-2023 Director View profile
  12. Dr David Clarke 2022-2024 Director View profile
  13. Dr Lovleen Tina Joshi 2022-2024 Director View profile
  14. Professor Gurdyal Singh Besra 2022-2024 Director View profile
  15. Brown, Nigel Leslie, Emeritus Professor 2022-2024 Director View profile
  16. Professor Jose Bengoechea 2021-2023 Director View profile
  17. Professor Laura Bowater 2021-2023 Director View profile
  18. Professor Robin May 2021-2023 Director View profile
  19. Professor Paul Alan Hoskisson 2021-2024 Director View profile
  20. Dr Andrew Edwards 2021-2023 Director View profile
  21. Colman O'Cathail 2021-2022 Director View profile
  22. Dr Sharon Brookes 2021-2023 Director View profile
  23. Dr Stephen Smith 2020-2021 Director View profile
  24. Dr Chloe James 2020-2022 Director View profile
  25. Professor Deirdre Devine 2019-2021 Director View profile
  26. Professor David John Blackbourn 2019-2020 Director View profile
  27. Dr Amy Pickering 2019-2021 Director View profile
  28. Professor Charles James Dorman 2019-2020 Director View profile
  29. Professor Judith Patricia Armitage 2019-2021 Director View profile
  30. Professor Michael Francis Tuite 2018-2019 Director View profile
  31. Professor Ian Stanley Roberts 2018-2021 Director View profile
  32. Professor Jodi Lindsay 2018-2021 Director View profile
  33. Professor Tracy Palmer 2018-2021 Director View profile
  34. Dr John Morrissey 2018-2021 Director View profile
  35. Dr Tadhg Ó CrÓinÍN 2018-2021 Director View profile
  36. Dr David Bhella 2017-2018 Director View profile
  37. Dr Helen Brown 2017-2018 Director View profile
  38. Professor Maggie Smith 2017-2019 Director View profile
  39. Dr Paul Kellam 2017-2021 Director View profile
  40. Professor Nicola Stonehouse 2016-2019 Director View profile
  41. Dr Karen Robinson 2016-2017 Director View profile
  42. Professor Neil Gow 2016-2018 Director View profile
  43. Professor Stephen Oliver 2016-2018 Director View profile
  44. Dr David Whitworth 2015-2017 Director View profile
  45. Dr Mike Skinner 2015-2017 Director View profile
  46. Dr Steve Diggle 2013-2016 Director View profile
  47. Professor David Pearce 2013-2017 Director View profile
  48. Professor Christopher Thomas 2013-2017 Director View profile
  49. Dr Pat Mary Goodwin 2013-2018 Director View profile
  50. Professor Mark Harris 2012-2022 Director View profile
  51. Professor Charles William Penn 2012-2013 Director View profile
  52. Dr Andrew John Davison 2012-2016 Director View profile
  53. Professor Margaret Caroline Machin Smith 2012-2015 Director View profile
  54. Dr Sara Katherine Burton 2012-2014 Director View profile
  55. Professor Ian Robert Henderson 2011-2015 Director View profile
  56. Dr Evelyn Doyle 2011-2016 Director View profile
  57. Professor Nigel Leslie Brown 2010-2015 Director View profile
  58. Professor John Henry Sinclair 2010-2014 Director View profile
  59. Professor Howard Francis Jenkinson 2009-2012 Director View profile
  60. Professor Joanna Richards 2009-2013 Director View profile
  61. Christopher Julian Hewitt 2009-2011 Director View profile
  62. Gary Rowley 2008-2012 Director View profile
  63. Professor Richard Michael Elliot 2008-2009 Director View profile
  64. David John Blackbourn 2007-2013 Director View profile
  65. Dr Paul Alan Hoskisson 2007-2016 Director View profile
  66. Dr Matthew Ian Hutchings 2006-2009 Director View profile
  67. Dr Richard Malcolm Hall 2006-2010 Director View profile
  68. Professor Robert Anthony Weiss 2006-2009 Director View profile
  69. Dr Catherine O'Reilly 2006-2010 Director View profile
  70. Professor Michael Richard Barer 2006-2010 Director View profile
  71. Professor Richard Edward Randall 2005-2008 Director View profile
  72. Professor Colin Robert Harwood 2005-2014 Director View profile
  73. Dr Petra Claire Farquhar Oyston 2005-2009 Director View profile
  74. Prof Neil Andrew Robert Gow 2005-2009 Director View profile
  75. Professor Katherine Anne Smart 2004-2007 Director View profile
  76. Prof Bert Karel Rima 2004-2008 Director View profile
  77. Dr Ulrich Desselberger 2004-2009 Director View profile
  78. Prof Iain Michael Hagan 2004-2008 Director View profile
  79. Professor Lorna Ann Casselton 2003-2007 Director View profile
  80. Dr Nicholas Harold Mann 2003-2007 Director View profile
  81. Professor Anthony Charles Minson 2003-2007 Director View profile
  82. Dr Gavin Hugh Thomas 2003-2006 Director View profile
  83. Professor Thomas Hugh Pennington 2003-2006 Director View profile
  84. Dr Susan Assinder 2003-2009 Director View profile
  85. Professor Jeffery Errington 2002-2006 Director View profile
  86. Geoffrey Lilley Smith 2002-2007 Director View profile
  87. Professor Peter William Andrew 2002-2006 Director View profile
  88. Professor Jeffrey Alan Cole 2002-2006 Director View profile
  89. Dr Geoffrey Christopher Schild 2002-2007 Director View profile
  90. Professor Alistair James Petersen Brown 2001-2005 Director View profile
  91. Sir John Evelyn Beringer 2001-2004 Director View profile
  92. Dr Pauline Sandra Handley 2001-2005 Director View profile
  93. Professor Sir David Alan Hopwood 2000-2003 Director View profile
  94. Professor Hilary Margaret Lappin-Scott 2000-2012 Director View profile
  95. Dr Keith Jones 2000-2005 Director View profile
  96. Dr Meriel Graham Jones 2000-2003 Director View profile
  97. Professor Anthony Aubrey Nash 2000-2004 Director View profile
  98. Dr Colin Ronald Howard 1999-2003 Director View profile
  99. Dr David Jacob Kelly 1999-2003 Director View profile
  100. Professor Alan Vivian 1999-2004 Director View profile
  101. Ian Raymond Poxton 1999-2007 Director View profile
  102. Dr Renee Elizabeth Sockett 1998-2002 Director View profile
  103. Professor Richard Michael Elliott 1998-2002 Director View profile
  104. Peter Frank Stanbury 1998-2005 Director View profile
  105. Professor Lynne Elaine Macaskie 1998-2002 Director View profile
  106. Professor Donald Andrew Ritchie 1998-2001 Director View profile
  107. Professor Stuart Gregory Siddell 1998-2002 Director View profile
  108. Professor Christopher Morton Thomas 1997-2005 Director View profile
  109. Professor Howard Dalton 1997-2000 Director View profile
  110. Professor David John Rowlands 1996-2000 Director View profile
  111. Elizabeth Margaret Helen Wellington 1996-2000 Director View profile
  112. Dr Geoffrey Baverstock Clements 1996-2000 Director View profile
  113. Prof Ronald Thomas Hay 1995-1999 Director View profile
  114. Prof Dame Lesley Anne Glover 1995-1998 Director View profile
  115. Professor Carlos Estenio Hormaeche 1995-1999 Director View profile
  116. Dr Geraldine Margaret Schofield 1995-1997 Director View profile
  117. Professor Jonathan Richard Saunders 1995-2000 Director View profile
  118. Dr Nigel Dennis Stow 1994-1998 Director View profile
  119. Professor John Christoper Fry 1994-1998 Director View profile
  120. Prof Anthony Peter Joseph Trinci 1994-1997 Director View profile
  121. Dr David Alan Hodgson 1994-1999 Director View profile
  122. Dr Charles William Penn 1994-2009 Director View profile
  123. Jeffrey William Almond 1993-2001 Director View profile
  124. Dr David Mclean Roberts 1993-2000 Director View profile
  125. Dr Christopher Frank Thurston 1993-1998 Director View profile
  126. Fergus Graham Priest 1993-1997 Director View profile
  127. Professor John F Peberdy 1993-1995 Director View profile
  128. Dr Nicholas John Russell 1992-1996 Director View profile
  129. Professor Paul David Griffiths 1992-1996 Director View profile
  130. Colin William Jones 1992-1996 Director View profile
  131. William Allan Hamilton 1992-1998 Director View profile
  132. Professor John Gwynfryn Jones 1991-1994 Director View profile
  133. Darby, Graham, Doctor 1991-1997 Director View profile
  134. John Henry Freer 1990-1995 Director View profile
  135. Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott 1992 Director View profile
  136. Dr Robert William Alexander Park 1991 Director View profile
  137. Professor Robert Keith Poole 1992 Director View profile
  138. Dr Duncan James Mcgeoch 1992 Director View profile
  139. Pamela Ann Hunter 1993 Director View profile
  140. Professor Charles Richard Madeley 1991 Director View profile
  141. Professor James Ivor Prosser 1994 Director View profile
  142. Dr Philip David Minor 1993 Director View profile
  143. Professor William Clelland Russell 1991 Director View profile
  144. Dr Martin Andrew Collins 1995 Director View profile
  145. Professor Geoffrey Allan Codd 1993 Director View profile
  146. Professor Peter Anthony Williams 1992 Director View profile
  147. Graham John Boulnois 1994 Director View profile
  148. Professor John Rodney Quayle 1993 Director View profile
  149. Professor Timothy Robert George Gray 1996 Director View profile
  150. Dr Ian Wishart Sutherland 1993 Director View profile
  151. Professor Nigel John Dimmock 1992 Director View profile
  152. Dr Ronald Henry Bishop 1995 Director View profile
  153. Dr Simon Festing 2011-2014 Secretary View profile
  154. Dr Ronald Strathearn Smith Fraser 1999-2011 Secretary View profile
  155. Dr Rodney Andrew Herbert 1994 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • Microbiology Society Publish & Read 2027 Buyer: JISC Value not published 2026-05-29 Source: Find a Tender

    Jisc Services Limited is entering into a contract with the Microbiology Society to give Jisc member institutions the right to subscribe to the Microbiology Society's online journals at preferential rates and publish open access articles in …

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About

Incorporated
24/01/1972
Also a registered charity
Microbiology Society
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.

9 directors on the board

1.5y median 0.9y
average tenure
3.5y
longest tenure
0
directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

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.

Education 1Professional services 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
01039582
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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