Candidate for the chair of the Natural Environment Research Council announced
The government바카라 사이트™s preferred candidate to be Chair of the Natural Environment Research Council has been selected
Sir Anthony Cleaver has been selected as the government바카라 사이트™s preferred candidate to be Chair of the (NERC).
Sir Anthony is a former chair of the and is currently president of the .
The current chairman Ed Wallis steps down at the end of December.
The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee will hold a pre-appointment hearing on 21 October 2013 and will report on Sir Anthony Cleaver바카라 사이트™s suitability for this post.
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NERC is the UK바카라 사이트™s main agency for funding and managing world-class research, training and knowledge exchange in the environmental sciences. It coordinates some of the world바카라 사이트™s most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make-up of life on earth, and much more. NERC receives around £300 million a year from the government바카라 사이트™s science budget, which it uses to fund research and training in universities and its own research centres.
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Pre-appointment scrutiny hearings enable Select Committees to take evidence from candidates for certain key public appointments before they are appointed. Hearings are in public and involve the Select Committee publishing a report setting out their views on the candidate바카라 사이트™s suitability for a post. Pre-appointment hearings are non-binding but Ministers will consider the Committee바카라 사이트™s views before deciding whether to proceed with the appointment.
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The Chairs of the all of the Research Councils are listed as posts suitable for pre-appointment hearings. That list was published in the government바카라 사이트™s response to the Liaison Committee바카라 사이트™s First Special Report of Session 2007-08 (Liaison Committee, First Special Report of Session 2007-08, Pre-appointment hearings by Select Committees: 바카라 사이트 Response, HC 594).