Our Trustees are leaders in science, business, policy and defence who believe that dedicated, curiosity-driven research can bring us to the future faster. They help the Institute attract funding and talent to become the leading independent research centre in Britain.

  • Sir Roy Anderson

    Sir Roy Anderson

    Sir Roy Anderson FRS FMedSci is Professor and former Rector at Imperial College London and was Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Defence.

  • Sir John Beddington

    Sir John Beddington

    Sir John Beddington HonFREng CMG FRS FRSE is Professor at Oxford, President of the London Zoo and former Government Chief Scientific Adviser.

  • Dr Thomas Fink

    Dr Thomas Fink

    Dr Thomas Fink is a physicist and the founding director of the London Institute and is a Chargé de Recherche in the French CNRS.

  • Martin Reeves

    Martin Reeves

    Martin Reeves is a Senior Partner and Managing Director at the Boston Consulting Group and is global head of the BCG Henderson Institute.

Former Trustees

  • Sir Peter Williams

    Sir Peter Williams

    Sir Peter Williams is former Vice President of the Royal Society, Chairman of the National Physical Laboratory and CEO of Oxford Instruments.

  • Thomas Tombrello

    Thomas Tombrello

    Dr Tom Tombrello was Professor of physics at Caltech and former chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at Caltech.

  • Dr Luciano Pietronero

    Dr Luciano Pietronero

    Luciano Pietronero is Professor at Sapienza University, founding director of the Institute for Complex Systems and winner of the Fermi Prize.

  • Dame Shirley Porter

    Dame Shirley Porter

    Dame Shirley Porter, Lady Porter, DBE was Leader of Westminster City Council and established the Porter School of Environmental Studies.

  • Dame Catherine Meyer

    Dame Catherine Meyer

    Dame Catherine Meyer, Baroness Meyer, CBE is a British life peer and founding director of the charity PACT, now Action Against Abduction.