The RAG Club Member Events – Lunch with Baroness Brown of Cambridge
February 26 @ 12:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 26th February | 12.00 for 12.30 | Clive Room | £65.00
Baroness Brown has been central to government efforts combating climate change for a generation now, as well as a key advisor to every Prime Minister since Tony Blair on science and technology. Her King Report in 2007 that considered vehicle and fuel technologies that would need to change from fossil to a renewable basis over the subsequent 25 years remains key to policy. A cross bencher in the House of Lords and a Dame since 2012, she chairs Parliament’s Select Committee on Science and Technology every week at Westminster and has also advised the Ministry of Defence as chair of the Defence Science Advisory Council, and the Cabinet Office as a member of the National Security Forum.
Join Baroness Brown for lunch to consider science and defence as well as one of the great issues of the day and her views on what key issues the UK government – indeed all governments – face amid concern that the planet is facing global warming. Share in her path from a physics undergraduate at Cambridge where she completed a Ph.D. in fracture mechanics (back then she was Julia King) to Rolls Royce where she was head of materials, Imperial College, where she was principal of the engineering department, and the Carbon Trust, which today she chairs.
