Industrial Advisory Board

The KTN's Industrial Advisory Board is a group of senior industrialists drawn mainly from positions in R&D. They advise on industrial trends and opportunities where mathematics can have major impact, help to strengthen the industrial context of the KTN’s R&D consortia, monitor the progress of KTN projects, and advise on exploitation routes.

Chair:
Keith Winters

Members:
Philip Bond
Peter Covey-Crump - formerly GCHQ
John Curtis - formerly QinetiQ
Gavin Davies - Arup
Chris Farmer - OCCAM
Susan Franks - Health and Safety Laboratory
Kevin Gell - Tessella
Roger Gent - AeroTex UK LLP
Nick Hall-Taylor - Chemtech International
Peter Herdman - formerly ArjoWiggins
Peter Jones - London Waste and Recycling Board
Trevor Maynard - Lloyd’s of London
Chris Newton - HP Laboratories
Jim Norton - Institute of Directors
Peter Sadd - Premier Foods
Sanjiv Sharma - Airbus
Colin Sillence - BAE Systems
Mike Walker - Vodafone
Lincoln Wallen - Dreamworks Animation
Simon Watts - Thales Aerospace
Richard Westoby - Scottish and Southern Energy
Colin Wilson - Home Office Scientific Development Branch

Scientific Committee

The KTN's Scientific Committee is a group of senior academics who are committed to industrial collaboration. They advise on priority areas where mathematics will have greatest impact, provide peer review to strengthen the KTN's research proposals, monitor the scientific quality of KTN projects, and allow the KTN to deploy a coordinated academic resource.

Chair:
Colin Please - University of Southampton

Members:
David Abrahams - University of Manchester
John Billingham - University of Nottingham
David Broomhead - University of Manchester
Chris Budd - University of Bath
Edmund Burke - University of Nottingham
Stephen Cowley - University of Cambridge
Russell Davies - Cardiff University
Paul Dellar - University of Oxford
Richard Gibbens - University of Cambridge
Kevin Glazebrook - Lancaster University
John King - University of Nottingham
Yaroslav Kurylev - University College London
Andrew Lacey - Heriot-Watt University
Daniel Lesnic - University of Leeds
Sean McKee - University of Strathclyde
Alexander McNeil - Heriot-Watt University
Geoff Nicholls - University of Oxford
John Ockendon FRS - University of Oxford
Kevin Parrott - University of Greenwich
Mike Paterson FRS - University of Warwick
Richard Purvis - University of East Anglia
William Shaw - King’s College London
Frank Smith FRS - University College London
Lenny Smith - London School of Economics
Jared Tanner - University of Edinburgh
Peter Wild - University of London, Royal Holloway
Eddie Wilson - University of Bristol
Stephen Wilson - University of Strathclyde
Jim Woodcock - University of York
David Wooff - University of Durham

Over the past year there have been changes to the senior management team. Keith Winters has taken over from Bruce Smith as Chairman of the KTN and Colin Please has taken over from John Ockendon as Chairman of the Scientific Committee.

Chairmen of the KTN

Keith Winters
Chairman of the KTN and the Industrial Advisory Board
Dr Keith Winters is the Industrial Strategy Coordinator of the KTN for Industrial Mathematics and Chairman of its Industrial Advisory Board. He was previously Chief Technologist at AEA Technology, where he was responsible for initiatives directed at medium to long-term market opportunities, and for strategic relationships with other technology companies and with the science base. He is Vice-President for Industry and Business at the Institute of Physics and a member of NERC’s Science and Innovation Strategy Board. Keith is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

Colin Please
Chairman of the Scientific Committee
Colin Please is chair of the KTN’s Scientific Committee. He is Head of the Applied Mathematics group at the University of Southampton. His background includes industrial experience at GEC, CEGB and QEGB and his subsequent academic career has been guided by the continual desire to connect mathematical research, from many sub-disciplines, with practical problems including a wide variety of industrial, environmental and medical applications. Central to this has been active support of international Study Groups in USA, China, Australia and Europe as well as industrial and medical study groups in the UK. He is Vice-President of the UK/IE branch of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.