POST Board - POST

About the POST Board

The POST Board oversees POST’s objectives, outputs and future work programme.

It meets quarterly to discuss proposals for POSTnotes and decide which briefings should be produced. These meetings ensure that POST’s work programme reflects the current interests of UK Parliament.

To maximise impartiality, the POST Board reflects the make-up of UK Parliament and spans the breadth of scientific disciplines. It comprises:

12 parliamentarians drawn from the House of Commons (8) and the House of Lords (4), roughly reflecting the balance of parties in Parliament.
Leading non-parliamentarians from the research community, nominated by the National Academies.
Representatives of the House of Lords and the Research & Information and Chamber and Committees teams of the House of Commons.

Officers

Chair: Adam Afriyie MP

Member of the Commons and Chair of the board
Vice-Chair: Professor the Lord Winston FmedSci FRSA FRCP FRCOG FREng

Member of the Lords and Vice chair of the board

House of Commons

Rt Hon Greg Clark MP

Member of the board
Katherine Fletcher MP

Member of the board
Stephen Metcalfe MP

Member of the board
Maria Miller MP

Member of the board
Carol Monaghan MP

Member of the board
Dr Ben Spencer

Member of the board
Dr Alan Whitehead MP

Member of the board

House of Lords

Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng FRS

Member of the board
Lord Haskell

Member of the board
Lord Ravensdale

Member of the board

Non-parliamentary

Professor Elizabeth Fisher FMedSci

Geneticist and Professor at University College London, board member
Professor Sir Bernard Silverman FRS FAcSS

Statistician and ex Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office, board member
Paul Martynenko FBCS

Distinguished visitor of the NPL, former President of the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, former Vice President and Technical Executive for IBM in Europe, board member
Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore DBE FBA FAcSS

Elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Geographical Society, Professor of environment and public policy, board member

Ex-officio

Oliver Bennett MBE

Head of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
Grant Hill-Cawthorn

House of Commons Librarian and Managing Director of Research & Information
Ariella Huff

Director of Select Committee Scrutiny and Analysis, House of Commons
Xameerah Malik

Head of Science and Environment Section, House of Commons Library
Nicolas Besly

Clerk of Select Committees, House of Lords