The Royal Academy of Engineering has appointed a Policy Director to head up its new Policy Centre - an expansion of its well-established policy function that it says will enhance its ability to provide government with expert advice from the profession on national challenges that involve engineering or have an engineering dimension.
Dr Nick Starkey has joined the Academy from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, where he was deputy director, Science & Research. Previous positions include deputy director, Office for Civil Society and Innovation at the Cabinet Office, and policy adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The RAE said: “The Policy Centre represents a significant increase in the Academy’s capacity to work with partners including the professional engineering institutions, industry, and other learned societies, to provide a coordinated voice, and to expand and deepen its relationships with government. It will define and develop workstreams on the biggest issues engineering can address, for the benefit of the profession and society as a whole.”
