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Roger Cashmore was appointed Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority on 30 July 2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2010 led the Royal Society working group on Nuclear Proliferation. He is a former Principal of Brasenose College in Oxford, and is a Professor of Experimental Physics in Oxford. Before returning to Oxford, he was Director of Research and Deputy Director General of CERN, the European high energy physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for the experimental programme at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Before leaving for CERN he was Chairman of Physics in Oxford and during his teaching and research career he has more than 200 publications in learned journals. He has been a Visiting Professor in Tsukuba in Japan, Brussels, Padua, Fermilab in the United States and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. He was awarded the C V Boys Prize of the Institute of Physics and a Research Award by the Alexander von Humbold Foundation in Germany. In 2004 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to international particle physics.
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Steven Cowley was appointed Director at Culham in September 2008, and Chief Executive Officer of the Authority on 1 November 2009. He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD from Princeton University. Professor Cowley's post-doctoral work was at Culham 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 led the plasma physics group at Imperial College, London. He remains a part time professor at Imperial College. He has published over 100 papers and articles. Professor Cowley co-chaired the US National Academy's decadal assessment of, and outlook for, plasma science: Plasma Science: Advancing Knowledge in the National Interest (National Academy Press 2007). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. Currently I am a member of the Prime Ministers Council on Science and Technology. |
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Keith Burnett was appointed to the Authority Board on 1 November 2010. He became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield in 2007. Previously he was Head of the Division of Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the University of Oxford, having been a professor of Physics there for almost twenty years.
His research is in the area of ultra cold atomic physics. His direct involvement in fusion science policy started when he was head of Physics at Oxford and chaired the review of fusion science for the DTI. This report led to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) taking up the funding role for the UK effort in fusion research. He was from 2001 to 2007 Chair of the Fusion Advisory Board which advised EPSRC, and hence the Authority on fusion strategy.
Last year he chaired the expert group that helped develop the Research Councils UK Fusion strategy, and had the opportunity to assess the UK’s programme for the years ahead. He is a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.
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Steve McQuillan was appointed to the Authority Board in November 2010. He is currently the CEO of the listed UK Engineering group – Avingtrans plc. Previous positions included Director/CEO of the National Physical Laboratory (working for Serco) and Divisional Managing Director of Oxford Instruments Superconductivity Ltd. Steve also has advisory board roles in Engineering UK and the EEF.
A graduate electronics engineer, Steve is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. |
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Peter Jones was appointed to the Authority Board on 1 November 2010. He became a non-executive director of NNL and Chairman of its Audit Committee in August 2009. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Competition Commission. His previous roles have included: Principal Private Secretary to the Chairman of the National Coal Board, and during a subsequent 19 year career in Corporate Finance at Samuel Montagu & Co. Limited and HSBC Investment Banking, as a senior adviser to the Department of Trade and Industry during the 2003-4 strategic review of BNFL, as a senior adviser to Scottish Power and British Coal during their respective restructurings and privatisations and to BNFL during the implementation of the strategic review and also as a consultant to the Shareholder Executive and DTI during the final preparations for the restructuring of the civil nuclear clean-up sector in 2004-2005.
Peter is also a qualified Chartered Certified Accountant and has had exposure to a wide range of financial management and planning issues in a variety of sectors varying from financial services to electricity production. |
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Martin Cox was appointed to the Authority Board on 1 November 2010. He
is responsible for the day-to-day running of the UK's fusion activities
at Culham, the management of the Culham Science Centre and for the
operation of the Joint European Torus (JET) under a contract placed by
the EU Commission on behalf of the members of the European Fusion
Development Agreement (EFDA). He is a theoretical physicist who joined
Culham upon graduating, working on plasma modelling. He then became
involved in the operation of the experimental facilities. In 1994 he was
appointed the Project Manager for the design and construction of the
MAST device. From 2000, when the Authority assumed responsibility for
the operation of JET on behalf of the European fusion community, he
became manager of Machine Operations Department, overseeing the
operation of most of the JET facilities as well as MAST. In 2007 he was
appointed Senior Manager for all aspects of JET operation and in 2008
was appointed Assistant Director (Operations). He was appointed
Operations Director on 1 November 2009. |
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Eric Hollis has over 35 years’ experience within the UK Atomic Energy Authority. He began his career working at the London HQ on energy forecasting and has since undertaken a wide range of roles including development and application of HR policy at both HQ and site levels before becoming Head of the Authority’s Finance Branch in 1986. After a number of finance-related roles, he was appointed the Head of Corporate Finance for the the Authority Group in 2003, and has also additionally acted as UKAEA Ltd’s Group Financial Controller since the creation of that company in 2008. He has been on the Board of AEA Insurance Ltd since 1997. He has been heavily involved in a number of major organisational restructuring projects, and has played a key role in the development of corporate governance and financial strategy as the Authority has evolved. He was appointed Chief Finance Officer and Authority Secretary for the UK Atomic Energy Authority on 1 November 2009. |
