Prime Minister Appoints Three New Trustees to the Board of the Science Museum Group

David Cameron has appointed Sarah Dry, Brian Cantor and Lopa Patel to the Board of the Science Museum Group, each for a term of four years, running from 1 June 2016 to 31 May 2020.

Sarah Dry is a writer and historian of science. She received a BA from Harvard University, an MSc from Imperial College London, and a PhD from Cambridge University, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She has held research fellowships at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics, the Science Policy Research Unit and the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex.

In 2015 she was awarded one of 36 inaugural Public Scholar grants from the US National Endowment for the Humanities to support the writing of popular scholarly books. She is the author of Curie: A Life and The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts.

Her research interests include the history of climate and meteorology, global health policy and the public representation of science and scientists. She is currently writing a book on the history of water and the global climate system.

Brian Cantor is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bradford. Before that he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of York; before that Professor of Materials and Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford; and before that a research scientist and engineer at GE Corporate Research Labs in the USA. He was Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and was awarded a CBE for services to higher education in the 2013 New Year’s Honours.