The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) announced yesterday (26 May) that Professor Timothy Richard Dafforn will become the department’s Chief Scientific Adviser, on 1 June.
He will succeed Professor John Perkins CBE in the role, which aims to ensure that the BIS’s policies, operations, and contributions to wider government issues are underpinned by ‘fit-for-purpose science, technology and engineering advice’.
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