Wendy Barnaby - Editor of Science and Public Affairs

Sarah Beyrath - Public Relations Manager (Europe and Asia Pacific), EquaTerra.

Professor Derek Burke CBE - Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, 1987-1995. A specialist adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology.

Aisling Burnand MBE - Aisling Burnand has been Chief Executive of the BioIndustry Association (BIA) since February 2003. Aisling joined the BIA in September 1998 as Director of Public Affairs, and has been responsible for all aspects of the Association’s internal and external communications programmes. In 2001 she became Deputy Chief Executive. In June 2007 Aisling was awarded an MBE for her services to science.

Professor S J Bell Burnell - Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford.

Professor Ann Dowling - Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge

Sarah Doyle - Director of Lexington Communications

Dr Emma East - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Neurology, University College London

Scott Fleming - Global Communications Manager, UCB

Dr Richard Foxton - Researcher

Dr Ben Goldacre - Medical Doctor and writes the ‘Bad Science’ column for The Guardian

Michael Gove MP - Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath, Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families

Dr Frances MacGuire - Environmental Scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Dame Bridget Ogilvie - Dame Bridget Ogilvie is one of the UK's leading medical scientists and a past Director of the Wellcome Trust.

Vivienne Parry - Columnist for the Times and a regular contributor to the Guardian. Also a presenter for a variety of science programmes for BBC Radio 4.

Dr Alun Roberts - Research Councils UK Communications

Sir Richard Sykes - Former Rector of Imperial College London

Dr Desmond Turner MP - Member of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown and member of the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee

Lord Winston - Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University

Patron
Baroness Kennedy - President of the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University and one of Britain's leading lawyers.