Walport reappointed as British Museum trustee

The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has reappointed SIR MARK WALPORT as the Royal Society’s nominated trustee of the British Museum. His reappointment is for a four-year term from 1 December 2024 to 30 November 2028.

Professor Walport is vice president and foreign secretary of the Royal Society, chair of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, and a trustee of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

In 2020, he retired from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), where he was the founding chief executive. He was previously the government’s chief scientific adviser and head of the Government Office for Science from 2013 to 2017.

Other roles he has held include director of the Wellcome Trust, professor of medicine and head of the division of medicine at Imperial College London, and founder fellow and first registrar of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

He was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours List for services to medical research.