July 23rd Inaugural Dinner Discussion

 The Dash for Nuclear: Is it Sustainable?

Hosted by Lady Judge and Michelle Thomas

at Eversheds, Senator House, 85 Queen Victoria Street

Drinks Reception at 6:15 followed by dinner at 6:45

 The dinner discussion will feature two experts speaking on the sustainability of nuclear energy. Dr. Sue E. Ion is the former president of the British Nuclear Energy Society between 2004 and 2006 and remains a member of its Executive Board. She also serves as the Vice President of the Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering and was BNFL’s Group Director of Technology 1992-2006. Tom Burke is currently an Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto plc and a Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London.  He was a member of the Council of English Nature, the statutory advisor to the British Government on biodiversity from 1999 - 2005. During 2002 he served as an advisor to the Central Policy Group in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office. He was Special Adviser to three Secretaries of State for the Environment from 1991-97 after serving as Director of the Green Alliance from 1982-91.

For more detailed biographies of these speakers please click the hyperlinks below.

 Dr. Sue Ion

 Tom Burke