| Lord Broers Read biography | Chairman |
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| Prof Gerhard Materlik, CBE Read biography | CEO of DLS |
| Andy Akerman Read Biography | Director of Finance and Corporate Services |
| Prof Jim Naismith Read biography | Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, The University of St Andrews |
| Simon Jeffreys Read biography | Non-Executive Director (Chief Operating Officer, Wellcome Trust) |
| Mr Marshall Davies | Non-Executive Director |
| Prof Tony Ryan, OBE Read biography | Non-executive Director (Pro Vice Chancellor, The University of Sheffield) |
| Prof Richard Wade Read biography | Non-executive Director (Chief Operating Officer, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)) |
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Professor Richard Wade, Non-executive Director (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC))
Professor Richard Wade is the Director of the Science Programme of the newly formed Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Previously, Professor Richard Wade was Director of the Programmes and Deputy Chief Executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
He has worked in both the Technology and Space Science Departments at CCLRC as head of the Engineering Division and then head of the Imaging Systems Division. He has a broad background in instrumentation and project management covering a range of scientific areas including, ground and space based astronomy, synchrotron radiation and particle physics.
Richard is currently President of the Council of the European Southern Observatory, is a UK delegate to CERN Council where he is also Chair of the Council Audit Committee, he is Chair of the international ALMA Project Board and is Chair of the European Coordinating Committing Committee for Astroparticle Physics. Richard holds a visiting Chair in the Physics Department of the University of Oxford.