The Royal Society
Mary Daly has extensive work experience in finance and auditing. Mary began their career as an Associate at PwC in 2000 and worked there until 2004. Mary then joined the BBC as a Senior Auditor from 2005 to 2011. After that, they served as the Director of Finance and Resources at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 onwards, they held various roles at The Royal Society, including Director of Finance and Chief Financial Officer.
Mary Daly attended Rathmore Grammar School in Belfast for an unknown period of time. Mary then went on to attend the University of Oxford from 1995 to 1998, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics).
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.