Dr. Sue Ion

Dr. Sue Ion was a Member of the Executive Board and the former President of British Nuclear Energy Society. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and served as Vice President and Member of Council from 2002-2008. She remains Chair the Energy Policy Group of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She was a member of the UK Council for Science and Technology from 2004-2011 and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2006 -2011.Dr Ion is a non-Executive Director on the Board of the Laboratory of the UK Health and Safety Executive. She was a member and Chairman of Audit Committee of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council from 1994-2001. Ion was Group Director of Technology for British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) from 1992 to 2006. She is part of several international review and oversight committees for nuclear energy including the IAEA Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy and the Euratom Science and Technology Committee of which she has been the Chairman since March 2010. She achieved first class honors from Imperial College in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1979. She was later appointed Visiting Professor at Imperial College in 2005 and is a member of the Board of Governors at the University of Manchester. Ion received UK’s Hinton Medal in 1993 and is a Fellow in the Institute of Materials and Institute of Nuclear Engineers. She has significant applicable knowledge in the fields of nuclear fuel cycle, most notably in fuel production and reprocessing technologies. She is an Honorary Professor of the University of Central Lancashire. She was awarded a DBE by Her Majesty the Queen so became Dame Sue in the UK New Years Honours List in 2010.