Dr Dame Sue Ion, GBE, FREng, FRS, FIoM3, FNucI

Dame Sue Ion is currently Hon President of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear and is a member of the UK Nuclear Regulator’s Independent Advisory Panel. Dame Sue spent over 3 decades in the nuclear sector before moving to a more advisory role on energy matters generally.  She was Chairman of the UK Government’s Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board which operated from January 2014- March 2016. Dame Sue was BNFL’s Chief Technology Officer from 1992-2006 and since then has served on a number of advisory committees associated with the UK’s energy requirements. 

Dame Sue has been Chairman of the Canadian National Nuclear Laboratory Scientific Advisory Board since the beginning of 2016. She was the UK’s representative on the IAEA Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy 2000-2007 and Chaired the EU Euratom S&T Committee from 2012 until BREXIT.   She was the only non US member of the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee serving from 2006-2018.

She holds honorary or visiting professorships at the University of Manchester and Imperial College London and currently serves as a member of Board of Governors of the University of Central Lancashire. Dame Sue is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society, where she chairs or serves on a number of standing committees. Dame Sue currently Chairs the Royal Society Science and Industry Translation Committee and is a Member of its Net Zero Committee. She was Vice President and Member of Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering between 2002 and 2008 and has chaired a number of the Academy’s key standing committees including the MacRobert Committee between 2014-2019