New Incoming ACME Chair
03 December 2007
ACME is delighted to announce that Professor Adrian Smith FRS
will be taking over ACME Chair from Sir Peter Williams FREng FRS
from 1 January 2008. Professor Smith will replace Professor John
McWhirter FREng FRS who has had to withdraw.
Professor Adrian Smith is the Principal of Queen Mary,
University of London. Previously he was at Imperial College,
London, where he was Head of the Mathematics Department, Chairman
of the Board of Imperial College Consultants and a member of the
Management and Planning Group. Adrian is currently a member of the
governing body of the London Business School, is Deputy
Vice-Chancellor of the University of London and the Treasurer for
Universities UK. He served on the Advisory Committee to the UK
Government Office for National Statistics from 1996-1998; from
1991-1998 he was Statistical Advisor to the Nuclear Waste
Inspectorate for the UK; and from 1982 to 1987 was adviser on
Operational Analysis for the Ministry of Defence. He has also
worked with the UK Higher Education Funding Council and the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He chaired the
Post14 Mathematics Inquiry which reported in 2004. He has been
President of the Royal Statistical Society and was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.