Programme Committee

The Programme Committee is tasked with considering suggestions for topics from GRC participants and providing recommendations to the Governing Board which will then endorse and announce the topic/topics for the following year. Members of the Programme Committee are at HORC level with additional representation of the Executive Support Group and are appointed by the Governing Board. Proxies/substitutes are not permitted to sit on the Programme Committee. 

Programme Committee members have a 3 year term, or the remainder of their term in office as a HORC (whichever is shorter). The Programme Committee will generally correspond virtually and meet as required by teleconference. Whenever possible (i.e. at Regional or Annual Meetings) members may organise in-person meetings.

Current members are:

• Alejandro Adem, President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Ahmed Alabdulkader, Director, Consulting Studies Office, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
• Katja Becker, President, German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Michael Bright, Associate Director, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
• Daniel Zajfman, Chairman Academic Board, Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

For Terms of Reference, please contact grc@ukri.org