The UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) is the personal adviser on science and technology-related activities and policies to the

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; and head of the

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. The Chief Scientific Adviser has a significant public role as the government's most visible scientific expert. They are also head of the Science and Engineering Profession in government. Most individual government departments have their own departmental Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA). The GCSA has no formal management responsibility for departmental CSAs and is free to provide advice to all departments, including those that have their own chief scientific adviser. The adviser also usually serves as chair of the UK's

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(SAGE).

List of Government Chief Scientific Advisers

* Sir

Solly Zuckerman Solomon "Solly" Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993) was a British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer. He is best remembered as a scientific advisor to the Allies on bombing strategy in the Second Wo ...

, 1964–1971 * Sir

Alan Cottrell Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS (17 July 1919 – 15 February 2012) was an English metallurgist and physicist. He was also former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University 1977–1979. Early ...

, 1971–1974 *

Robert Press Robert Press, CB, CBE, FRSA (22 February 1915 - 30 August 1984) was a British scientist and government adviser. Educated at Queen's University, Belfast, he was a research physicist at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1938 to 1940 (completing a PhD th ...

, 1974–1976 * Sir

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, 1977–1981 * Sir Robin Nicholson, 1982–1985 * Sir

John Fairclough Sir John Whitaker Fairclough (23 August 1930 – 5 June 2003) was a British computer engineering, computer designer, and later government policy advisor. Education John Fairclough was educated at Thirsk Grammar School and than studied e ...

, 1986–1990 * Sir William Stewart, 1990–1995 * Sir Robert May, 1995–2000 * Sir David King, 2000–2008 * Sir

John Beddington Sir John Rex Beddington HonFREng (born 13 October 1945) is a British population biologist and Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, and the UK Govern ...

, 2008–2013 * Sir

Mark Walport Sir Mark Jeremy Walport (born 25 January 1953) is an English medical scientist and was the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017 and Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) from 2017 to 2020. ...

, 2013–2017 * Sir

Chris Whitty Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty (born 21 April 1966) is a British epidemiologist serving as Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO) and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government since 2019. He has also been Gresham Professor of Physic si ...

(interim), 2017–2018 * Sir

Patrick Vallance Sir Patrick John Thompson Vallance (born 17 March 1960) is a British physician, scientist, and clinical pharmacologist who has worked in both academia and industry. He has served as the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (United Kingdom), Chie ...

, 2018–

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List of Government Chief Scientific Advisers

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