Leading the Governance and Fellowship work for the proto-Academy ensuring that the Academy will be properly directed, controlled, accountable and transparent; and that we establish a Fellowship that that brings together outstanding people from across the mathematical sciences - research, teaching, business, industry, government - to contribute collectively to the Academy and its mission

Leading CHIRP's Board of Trustees in governance and strategy development, to help enhance safety in aviation and maritime

The EURO Working Group on OR in Practice (EWG-POR) is a working group of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies, aimed at improving the effectiveness and influence of OR in the real world. I chair its coordinating committee drawn from more than half-a-dozen European countries.https://www.euro-online.org/websites/or-in-practice/

The OR Society's Pro Bono initiative links volunteer OR professionals with charities or other non-profit organisations that will benefit from OR. For more details, ProBonoOR@theorsociety.com. WORAN events aim to support women and make them visible, through enjoyable and informative networking bit.ly/WORAN

The OR Society is the learned society that supports the UK's Operational Research community, and has the charitable aims of promoting education, knowledge and understanding of OR. These are exciting times for OR (using scientific and mathematical approaches to helping organisations become more effective through better strategy, decision-making, and operations), with the growth in Big Data and in technology fuelling increasing demand and need for OR skills. The Society is at the forefront of building the reach, visibility and influence of OR, supporting OR professionals and improving awareness and understanding. As a Board member for 10 years and President for 2, I drove a variety of initiatives to build our reach, influence and effectiveness.

Freelance consultant and adviserSpecialising in analysis, systems thinking and investigation to enable organisations to develop and/or stress-test robust, affordable strategies in a turbulent world.

As a member of SACRE, I aim to ensure that the humanist (non-religious) belief framework is recognised and understood as part of RE provision in Waltham Forest schools.As an accredited humanist schools speaker, I aim to help young people become aware of non-religious world views and non-religious ethical frameworks, by visiting schools on request to talk to assemblies or classes

- fostering links between academics and practitioners;- setting up and coordinating summer projects in industry, for MSc students studying Decision Sciences, until September 2016Dept of Management until Sep 2017; then Department of Mathematics

Contributing to the governance and direction of the OR Society in its support of the UK's OR community and its promotion of education, knowledge and understanding of O.R. Supporting the Pro Bono OR initiative, enabling ORS members to provide free OR analysis for charities and other non-profit organisations. Leading the 'Making an Impact' conference-within-a-conference for helping OR practitioners to become more effective.

Trustee, providing advice on governance, strategy, and general management; since October 2009, Chair of the Management Committee giving leadership and strategic direction, to this London-based charity providing free, high-quality, person-centred counselling and support services to help women affected by domestic violence rebuild their lives.

Member of 7-person board, bringing professional analytical expertise and multi-disciplinary, can-do approach to strategy, change and governance.