The Royal Society
Julian Huppert is an experienced professional currently serving as the Director of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College Cambridge and a Non Executive Director at Health Innovation East, which focuses on the rapid realization of healthcare innovations. Huppert also holds the position of Director at The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Limited, promoting democratic reform and social justice in the UK. As Chair of the System Ethics Committee for the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System, Huppert contributes to ethical oversight in healthcare. Additionally, Huppert is a Visiting Professor at King's College London and UNSW, and serves as Associate Editor for Royal Society Open Science. Other roles include Patron at the British Humanist Association, and membership in both the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group and the AI Ethics Working Group for the UK Home Office. Huppert previously served as Deputy Chair for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG. Education includes a combined MA and PhD in Natural Sciences from Trinity College Cambridge.
The Royal Society
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. The backbone of the Society is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists of the day, elected by peer review for life and entitled to use FRS after their name. There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates amongst the Society's approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. Throughout its history, the Society has promoted excellence in science through its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. The Society is independent of government, as it has been throughout its existence, by virtue of its Royal Charters. In 1663, The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge was granted its Arms and adopted the motto "Nullius in verba", an expression of its enduring commitment to empirical evidence as the basis of knowledge about the natural world. The Society's activities include influencing science and education policy, funding leading researchers, publishing journals that span all the sciences and the history of science, and the provision of science communication activities for a variety of public audiences.