Governance

Governing Board

The Governing Board is responsible for reviewing and challenging our work, providing assurance that we are operating within our remit and spending in line with the terms of our funding arrangements and the goals of our five-year strategy.

Members of the Governing Board

Jane Macnaughton (Chair)

Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Medical Humanities, Durham University

Sarion Bowers

Head of Policy and Advocacy, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Sarah Dickson

Head of Regulatory Support Centre, Medical Research Council

Tim Gardam

CEO, Nuffield Foundation

Adam Hedgecoe

Professor of Sociology of Science, Cardiff University

Katherine Littler

Co-Lead of the Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit, World Health Organisation

Dan O’Connor

Head of Research Environment, Wellcome

Membership Committee

Chaired by an external chair, the Membership Committee considers and makes recommendations to the Council on future membership.

Sarah Guerra (Independent Chair)

Head of Culture, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Bank of England

Ruchi Baxi

Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Consultant in Public Health Medicine for the NIHR Coordinating Centre, based at the University of Southampton

Carol Brayne

Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Professor of Public Health Medicine and Co-Director of Public Health at the Cambridge Public Health Interdisciplinary Research Centre, University of Cambridge

Sarah Cunningham-Burley

Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Professor of Medical and Family Sociology / Dean of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh

Elaine Gadd

Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and former Consultant Psychiatrist, with extensive experience in national and international bioethics policy