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Chief scientific advisers across government

Every government department has a Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).

Departmental CSAs, working collectively with other analytical disciplines and with departmental boards and Ministers, work to ensure that science and engineering are at the core of decisions within departments and across government.

It is the responsibility of departmental CSAs to implement the Guidelines on the use of scientific and engineering advice in policy making.

A full list of current Chief Scientific Advisers is below:

1 Government Chief Scientific Adviser Professor John Beddington
2 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Professor John Perkins CBE
3 Department for Education Carole Willis
4 Department for Communities & Local Government Professor Jeremy Watson
5 Department for Culture, Media & Sport (vacant)
6 Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Professor Bob Watson
7 Department for International Development Professor Christopher Whitty
8 Department for Transport Professor Rod Smith
9 Department for Work & Pensions Dr Bill Gunnyeon
10 Department of Health Professor Dame Sally Davies (Chief Scientific Advisor)
Dr David Harper (Chief Scientist)
11 Department of Energy and Climate Change Professor David Mackay
12 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Professor David Clary
13 Food Standards Agency Dr Andrew Wadge
14 Forestry Commission Professor Peter Freer-Smith
15 Health & Safety Executive Dave Bench (Director of Science, Engineering, Analysis and Chemical Regulation)
16 Her Majesty's Treasury James Richardson
17 Home Office Professor Bernard Silverman
18 Met Office Julia Slingo
19 Ministry of Defence Professor Mark Welland
20 Scottish Government Professor Anne Glover
21 Ministry of Justice Rebecca Endean
22 Welsh Assembly Government Professor John Harries