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.
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.