Advisory Council
The Advisory Council of the Society consists of up to 20 members. Of these, seven representatives are elected by the membership of the Society, two are elected by the Early Career Forum, eight are appointed as co-Chairs of our Committees, and three are appointed as Executive Officers: the President, General Secretary and Treasurer, who also sit on the Society’s Board of Trustees.
Working with the Society’s staff, the Advisory Council is responsible for delivering active engagement and insights on behalf of the microbiology community. The Advisory Council reports to the Society’s Board of Trustees, who bear the legal responsibilities of Trustees of the Charity and Directors of the Company. The governing document for the Advisory Council is the Society’s Bye-Laws.
Microbiology Society Bye-Laws
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Chair and President
Professor Gordon Dougan FRS
University of Cambridge, UK
Appointed members of the Advisory Council
| John Sinclair | Treasurer | University of Cambridge, UK |
| David Clarke | General Secretary | University College Cork, Ireland |
| Nicolas Locker | Co-Chair of Building Communities Committee | Pirbright Institute, UK |
| Kim Hardie | Co-Chair of Building Communities Committee | University of Nottingham, UK |
| José Bengoechea | Co-Chair of Impact and Influence Committee | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK |
| Jonathan Cox | Co-Chair of Impact and Influence Committee | Aston University, UK |
| Geertje Van Keulen | Co-Chair of Sustainability Committee | Swansea University, UK |
| Christine Edwards | Co-Chair of Sustainability Committee | Robert Gordon University, UK |
| Bruno Silvester Lopes | Co-Chair of Members Panel | Teesside University, UK |
| Yinka Somorin | Co-Chair of Members Panel | RBridge Research and Advisory, Ghana |
Elected members of the Advisory Council
| Gerald Barry | Advisory Council Representative on Finance Committee | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Julian Parkhill | Advisory Council Representative on Finance Committee | University of Cambridge, UK |
| George Salmond | Advisory Council Representative on Audit, Risk and Evaluation Committee | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Justine Rudkin | Advisory Council Representative on Building Communities Committee | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Arindam Mitra | Advisory Council Representative on Impact and Influence Committee | RV University, India |
| Lorena Fernández-Martínez | Advisory Council Representative on Sustainability Committee | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Kasia Parfitt | Co-Chair of Early Career Forum Executive Committee | University of Oxford, UK |
| Rebecca McHugh | Co-Chair of Early Career Forum Executive Committee | University of Glasgow, UK |