Professor Sir Brian Heap

Professor Sir Brian Heap was appointed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as UK Representative on the NATO Science Committee, Brussels. He was President of the Institute of Biology, UK Representative on the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, member of Council in 1994, and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President from 1996-2001. He was Director of Research at Babraham, Roslin and at the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council, Swindon. He has held visiting posts in the Universities of Nairobi, Murdoch Western Australia and Guelph Canada, and consultancies in the pharmaceutical sector and at the World Health Organisation.

Sir Brian Heap is also Editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B. He was Master of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge from 1996-2004 and chairs the Trustees of the Academia Europaea, the Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park, the Advisory Panel on Sustainable Consumption and Production-evidence in the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs, London, and the Energy Committee of the European Academies Science Advisory Council based at the Royal Society, London.

Ms Mandeep Bains

Ms. Mandeep Bains is Senior Policy Advisor at the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals Campaign responsible for shaping its global policy strategy and overseeing the development of national Campaign policy strategies in Europe. In this capacity, she has advised and worked with the Campaign’s Executive Coordinator. Prior to this, she worked extensively with the European Commission from 1997-2004 as an Economist in the Europe-Aid Cooperation Office, the Directorate General for Economic Affairs and the World Bank / European Commission Office for South-East Europe. During this time, she, amongst other responsibilities, managed negotiations of the first national economic policy programs with the Czech Republic and Latvia and facilitated the discussions of European Union Ministers of Finance on aging and public finance sustainability, coordinating a well-researched projection of future health costs for 15 countries. A former Member of the European Fast Stream with the United Kingdom Government’s Department for International Development, Ms. Mandeep Bains holds Business Management, Economics and Public Policy degrees from King’s College London, University of Warwick and Princeton University respectively.

Professor Simon Wren-Lewis

Professor Simon Wren-Lewis has been Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter since 1995 (serving as Head of Department from 2000-2002 and School Director of Research since 2002), prior to which, he held the Chair in Macroeconomic Modelling at the University of Strathclyde and was Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, where he has also been Governor since 1995. He has been involved with HM Treasury since 1990, was Consultant to the Bank of England from 1999-2004 and actively engaged with the Economic and Social Research Council from 1992-2000 and the Royal Economic Society from 1992-2003. A former Visiting Professor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and an Editorial Board Member for New Economy and Economic Modelling, Professor Simon Wren-Lewis is a referee for no fewer than 13 economics related journals, a PhD External Examiner at 8 universities and has (co-)published 39 refereed journal articles since 1983. He graduated with a MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, during which time he was Chairman of the Cambridge University United Nations Association, the precursor of CUUNA today.