Chair, Alan Turing Institute

Chair of the Board of Trustees & Development Board Chair, ClientEarth

Policy Fellow Alum, Centre for Science and Policy

Howard studied Natural Sciences and then Part III Maths at St John’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1974. He has had a career in investment banking and asset management and has been chief executive of two City firms.

He was a Trustee of the Science Museum and is the first non-academic chair of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge. He has written op-ed pieces on climate change for the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.

In June 2015 Howard was appointed Chair of the newly created Alan Turing Institute. Announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 2014, the Alan Turing Institute is a joint-venture between 5 UK Universities (Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, UCL, and Warwick), funded by the EPSRC, as the UK's national institute for data science. The Institute will promote the development and use of advanced mathematics, computer science, algorithms and big data for human benefit. It will conduct first class research and development in an environment that brings together theory and practical application.