Policy Exchange’s new Nuclear Enterprise Commission is at the forefront of redefining the UK’s nuclear policy across civil and defence domains.

The members of the Commission are:

Rt Hon Lord Case CVO PC, former Cabinet Secretary (Chair)
Dr Won-Pil Baek, Senior Research Fellow at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
Professor Wyn Bowen, Head of the School of Security Studies at KCL and Professor of Non-Proliferation and International Security
Joshua Buckland, Director of Strategy and Policy at EDF and a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange
Tom Greatrex, CEO, Nuclear Industry Association; former Shadow Minister for Energy of Great Britain
Lt Gen H R McMaster (USA, Ret.), 25th U.S. National Security Advisor
Frank Miller, former Special Advisor on nuclear matters to President George W. Bush and Nuclear Defence Specialist at the Department of Defence
Professor Dame Fiona Murray DCMG CBE, Associate Dean for Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the NATO Innovation Fund
Professor Sir David Omand GCB, former Director of GCHQ
Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG PC, former NATO Secretary General and Secretary of State for Defence
Hon William J Schneider Jr, former Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs
Air Marshal Edward Stringer CB CBE, former Director-General of the Defence Academy and former Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff
Paul Taylor CBE, former Director General of Strategic Technologies at the Ministry of Defence
Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan, former Minister of State for Indo-Pacific and Secretary of State for International Trade
Dr Heather Williams, Director, Project on Nuclear Issues at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies
Admiral Rt Hon Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC PC, former First Sea Lord

The Commission will produce a series of papers and research notes over the coming six months addressing the most pressing questions facing the UK’s nuclear enterprise. Drawing together expertise from across government, industry and academia, its research and events will span subjects from the nuclear deterrent and the nuclear threat landscape to regulation, the nuclear industrial base and dual-use technologies. This breadth will enable the Commission to propose a wide array of answers to the considerable challenges at the heart of energy and national security policy.

Rt Hon Lord Case CVO PC commented:

“The UK was part of the original nuclear gang. We were the third nation to conduct a successful nuclear test in 1952, and the home of the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, Calder Hall. But, over time, we have struggled to maintain our world-leading record, and must now spend time and effort modernising both our military and civil nuclear programmes. As awareness grows of the UK’s need to go nuclear, Policy Exchange’s new Nuclear Enterprise Commission arrives at a vital moment.”