Management Team and Board of Directors

Andrea Ward joined Diamond Light Source in 2019, with 15 years experience as a Senior Finance professional, and is CEO and Director of Finance and Corporate Services. During a 12-year tenure at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, she worked with the Board to lead finance and procurement functions in Europe, later moving to Canada with the business to assist with acquisition and commercialisation opportunities. Andrea has also worked at ResMed and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming corporation.

Dr Adrian Mancuso joined Diamond in November 2022 from the European XFEL facility, where he has held the position of Group Leader and Leading Scientist for the Single Particles, Clusters, and Biomolecules & Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SPB/SFX) instrument Group since 2010. As Physical Science Director, Adrian is  responsible for overall strategic leadership, direction and management of Diamond’s Physical Science Division.

Professor David Stuart FRS is MRC Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford, and Head of the Division of Structural Biology at the Department of Clinical Medicine. He was appointed Director of Life Sciences at Diamond Light Source in 2008. His principal research interests include the structure of viruses and viral proteins as well as cellular proteins, especially those that interact with viruses.

Professor Richard Walker joined Diamond Light Source as Technical Director in January 2002. He was a key member of the Daresbury Laboratory SRS team for over 12 years before joining Sincrotrone Trieste in Italy where as Director of the Light Sources Division he was responsible for the development of ELETTRA. Professor Walker is visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. 

Company Secretary: Linda Gregory