Prof Peter Coveney to join an Editorial Board assembled by UK Government Department of Business
Prof Peter Coveney has accepted an invitation to join an Editorial Board being assembled by UK Government Department of Business, Innovation & Skills to prepare a Report at the behest of the Right Honourable David Willetts MP, Minister for Science & Universities. This report is intended to lay out a grand strategy for e-infrastructure across the whole of UK academe, industry and commerce and aims to influence UK government policy and thinking from the autumn onward. The Board will be chaired by Dominic Tlildesley, VP for the Discover Platform at Unilever. Prof Coveney is the sole academic member of the Board, others being drawn from funding agencies and industry.