Prime Minister appoints 7 Trustees to the Science Museum Group.

The Prime Minister has appointed 7 Trustees to the Science Museum Group from 1 April 2015 for terms of 4 years each.

Matthew d’Ancona, Sharon Flood, Professor Russell Foster, Professor David Phoenix, Anton Valk CBE, Rt Hon David Willetts MP and Dame Fiona Woolf have been appointed by the Prime Minister as trustees of the Science Museum Group from 1 April 2015 for terms of 4 years each.

Matthew d’Ancona writes a weekly column for the Guardian. He was previously editor of the Spectator and also writes for the Evening Standard, the International New York Times and GQ. He was the Sunday Telegraph’s political columnist for 19 years. He is a visiting research fellow at Queen Mary University of London, author of several books including In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition, and chairman of the thinktank Bright Blue. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1989, after gaining First Class Honours in Modern History at Magdalen College where he was a Demy (scholar).

Professor Russell Foster is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute and a fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford. He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society in 2008 and the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2013. He chairs several committees at the Royal Society and is the Chair of the Cheltenham Science Festival. Professor Foster was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Years Honours for services to Science.