MoD Chief Scientific Adviser

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The Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK's Ministry of Defence is responsible for providing strategic management of science and technology issues in the MoD, most directly through the MoD research budget of well over £1 billion, and sits as a full member of the Defence Management Board and the Defence Council, the two most senior management boards within the MoD.

[edit] List of MoD Chief Scientific Advisers

• Mark Welland, 2008 - present

• Sir Roy Anderson, 2004 - 2008
• Sir Keith O'Nions, 2000 - 2004
• Sir David Davies, 1993 - 1999
• Sir Ronald Oxburgh, 1988 - 1993
• Sir Richard Norman, 1983 - 1988
• Sir Ronald Mason, 1977 - 1983
• Sir Hermann Bondi, 1971 - 1977
• Sir William Cook, 1966 - 1970
• Sir Alan Cottrell, 1966 - 1967
• Sir Solly Zuckerman, 1960 - 1965
• Sir Frederick Brundrett, 1954 - 1960
• Sir John Cockcroft, 1952 - 1954
• Sir Henry Tizard, 1948 - 1952

[edit] External links

• MoD Science, Innovation, and Technology directorate