Professor Rachel Bearon is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences and Professor of Mathematical Biology at King’s College London. Prior to this she was Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Her research concerns the spatial and temporal dynamics of biological systems, ranging from bacterial chemotaxis, cancer cell motility and phytoplankton in turbulence, to modelling cell-signalling pathways, intracellular protein dynamics and drug transport. Rachel is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and has been on its Council (2017-2023). She is a founding trustee of the Academy for Mathematical Sciences and serves on the Exec Committee for its set-up phase.

Dr Enright is a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow.  Her research interests include the mathematics of networks and games, and she is particularly interested in applications in infectious disease, contagion processes, and epidemiological and economic systems.  She is the general secretary of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, a Member-at-Large of the London Mathematical Society’s Council, and on the management board of the Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in Mathematical Sciences.

Dr Howard P. Haughton is a widely recognised expert in quantitative financial risk and works as a consultant in this field. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Computer Science and has held senior roles in risk and capital markets at notable institutions, including Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch. Notably, he's served as Chief Risk Officer and co-Head of Treasury at a Building Society, where he established the organisation's Risk and Treasury management policy and departments. He's also held executive positions at a leading brokerage firm in the Caribbean. 

Dr Haughton serves on the Board of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), is a member of its Professional Affairs Committee and is the EDI champion for the IMA. He is also on the advisory board of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences. He is a visiting senior research fellow at King’s College London conducting research across multidisciplinary subjects including quantitative finance, artificial intelligence, formal aspects of computer science and mathematical modelling of social issues including EDI.

Professor Catherine Hobbs CMath FIMA is Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Bristol. As Chair of the research Institute, she works with the mathematics community and Government to apply mathematical knowledge and skills to real life problems as well as nurturing the mathematical sciences pipeline from schools through to high level research.

Catherine is also currently Vice President of the London Mathematical Society and Honorary Secretary (Education) of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She is on the Executive Committee of the proto-Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, where she leads on Policy.

Professor Terry Lyons is the Wallis Professor Emeritus and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is currently PI of the DataSıg program (primarily funded by EPSRC), and of the complementary research programme CIMDA-Oxford. He was a founding member, and then Director (2011-2015) of, the Oxford Man Institute of Quantitative Finance; he was the Director of the Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (WIMCS; 2008-2011). He came to Oxford in 2000 having previously been Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London (1993-2000), and before that he held the Colin Maclaurin Chair at Edinburgh (1985-93).

Richard is a retired civil servant, whose career has been divided between academic research in pure mathematics and its application to cybersecurity.  He was the founding head of research at the Heilbronn Institute, and has served on advisory boards at EPSRC, NGM, INI, ICMS and on the REF.  He has also served as Vice-President (Professional Affairs and Industry) at the IMA. He continues mathematical research as a consultant.

Richard is a retired civil servant, whose career has been divided between academic research in pure mathematics and its application to cybersecurity.  He was the founding head of research at the Heilbronn Institute, and has served on advisory boards at EPSRC, NGM, INI, ICMS and on the REF.  He has also served as Vice-President (Professional Affairs and Industry) at the IMA. He continues mathematical research as a consultant.