Jon Moulton is Managing Partner of Alchemy, a UK-based private equity firm, which has invested £1½ billion of equity with an emphasis on dealing with troubled companies. 

He is a Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Society of Turnaround Professionals and previously worked with Citicorp Venture Capital in New York and London, Permira and Apax, where he has invested in a large variety of businesses including Life Sciences.  He has been a director of numerous companies.  He is the trustee of the Moulton Charitable Foundation which principally funds Clinical Trials and was formerly Chairman of the British Allergy Foundation.

Robert McCredie, Lord May of Oxford, OM AC Kt, is President of The Royal Society (2000-2005), holds a Professorship jointly at Oxford University and Imperial College, London and is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford . He was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology, 1995-2000.

Lord May was awarded a Knighthood in 1996, and appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1998, both for “Services to Science”. In 2001 he was one of the first 15 Life Peers created by the “House of Lords Appointments Commission”. In 2002, The Queen appointed him to the Order of Merit (the fifth Australian in its 100-year history).

Lord Robert Winston is professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College School of Medicine, London University, and is a world renowned fertility expert. He heads the Department of Reproductive Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital in London and is recognised for his several BBC television series, including the Human Body, Secret Life of Twins and Superhuman.

As a researcher into human reproduction, Lord Winston helped develop techniques for sterilisation reversal and his research into embryology and genetics is internationally acclaimed. He is the author of many books including Fertility – A Sympathetic Approach (1985); and Making Babies (1996). Created a Life Peer in 1995, he was recently Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology.

Mary Archer is chairman of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and a member of the NHS National Leadership Network. She also chairs the East of England Stem Cell Network Steering Group and the national Urology Informed Decision Making Project.

Mary read chemistry at Oxford , completing her PhD at Imperial College , London . Her scientific research interests lay in direct conversion of solar energy, on which she has published two books. She is President of the National Energy Foundation, the UK Solar Energy Society, the Guild of Church Musicians and the Cam Valley Forum; and was awarded the Energy Institute’s Melchett Medal in 2002.

Nick Ross is a broadcaster who specialises in factual programmes and is best-known for Crimewatch UK. He is a psychologist by background and a former member of the Committee on the Understanding of Science and Chairman of the Science Book Prize. He is President of HealthWatch, a charity devoted to promoting evidence-based medicine and health policy, and for 20 years has championed scientific methodology in many areas of social policy, most notably in crime reduction.

He is a member of the UK’s two major national bioethics committees and has served on several government advisory boards. He founded the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London, has an honorary doctorate from Queen’s university Belfast and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Medicine.

Professor Jones is a Director of Allergan Inc (USA) and Senior R&D Advisor to Esteve SA (Spain) and Servier (France). He is a visiting professor at King's College, London , Chairman of the UK stem cell biotech company, ReNeuron Ltd and for 10 years until September 2004 he was Director General of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).

From 1987-94, Professor Jones was a main board director of The Wellcome Foundation, where he was responsible for R&D including the development of AZT, Zovirax ,Malarone and other medicines. He was for 12 years a member of The Medicines Commission, a Government regulatory agency and was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen by the award of CBE in the 2003 New Year's Honours List.

Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London, President of the Galton Institute, a Trustee of the Charles Darwin Foundation and a board member of the Learning Centre London. He was awarded the Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science in 1997.

Professor Jones is particularly concerned with school and public education and has written several books including The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution 1992; Y:The Descent of Men, 2002 and most recently The Single Helix: a Turn around the World of Science, 2005. He gave the 1991 Reith Lectures on ‘The Language of Genes’, presented the BBC TV series ‘In the Blood’ and has a regular column about science matters in the Daily Telegraph.

Dr Gibson is the Member of Parliament for Norwich North, a seat which he has held since 1997. He specialises in science and health issues and chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer, and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba. He is the former chair of both the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology and the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee.

Dr Gibson attended the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a BSc and a PhD. After working at the University of Edinburgh, Indiana and Seattle he joined the University of East Anglia where he was Dean of the School of Biological Sciences and served as head of a 10 strong research team investigating various forms of cancer. In 2003, the University awarded him an Honorary Professorship.