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MercurysBall2 ago

UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE To be published as HC 746-i - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/uc746-i/uc74602.htm

Science and Technology Committee

The role of the Chairman of the MRC

Wednesday 20 June 2007 - SIR JOHN CHISHOLM

Witness: Sir John Chisholm, Chairman, Medical Research Council, gave evidence.

Members present : Dr Evan Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chisholm_(executive)

Sir John Alexander Raymond Chisholm FREng CEng FIEE FRAeS FInstP[1] (born 27 August 1946) is a British engineer who was chairman of the Medical Research Council and QinetiQ

Chisholm was born in India of Scottish parents, Ruari Ian Lambert Chisholm and Pamela Harland Frank, and brought up in Calcutta. Mairi Chisholm was his great-aunt.[2][3] He was educated at Worth School, and later attended Cambridge University, reading Mechanical Sciences on a scholarship from General Motors.

MercurysBall2 ago

Sir David Cooksey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cooksey

Sir David James Scott Cooksey, GBE (born 14 May 1940) is a British businessman, venture capitalist and policy advisor.

David Cooksey gained a degree in metallurgy at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford[1] (Hon Fellow 1995). He embarked on a career as an industrial engineer, rising through the management of the company Formica International, and finally leading the management buy-out of a subsidiary in 1971.

Cooksey was chairman of the Audit Commission from 1986 to 1995 and in 1996 as chairman of the Local Government Commission for England, proposed the introduction of unitary authorities in many areas of England. In 2003 Cooksey was appointed to chair the Biosciences Industry Growth Taskforce by HM Treasury and the DTI and issued the report "Biosciences 2015" that year. He revised and reissued the report in 2009. In 2006 he published the Cooksey Review of UK health research for HM Treasury which led to a new funding structure and approach to medical research in the UK. It also paved the way to new approaches to pharmaceutical licensing.

Sir David was a director of the Bank of England from 1994 until 2005, including a period as Chairman of Directors from 2001. He was a Governor of the Wellcome Trust from 1995 to 1999, and was Chairman of the Board of Directors at Diamond Light Source Ltd from its formation in 2002 until September 2008. He was chairman of the Francis Crick Institute from 2009 to August 2017. He was Pro Chancellor of the University of Southampton from 2009-2013.

Sir David was Chairman of London and Continental Railways from 2006 to 2011. He was appointed chairman of Bechtel Ltd in 2008. He chaired UK Financial Investments Limited from 2009 to 2012.

He was knighted in 1993. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2007 for public service.

Yeah, knighted because he was in the 'club', clearly.

He is a keen sailor and a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.