Leadership and Governance

Professor Adrian Bull MBE is Associate Director at the Dalton Nuclear Institute, where he is the BNFL Chair in Nuclear Energy and Society. He joined the University part-time in 2021, following 40 years in the UK nuclear industry with BNFL, Westinghouse and latterly the National Nuclear Laboratory, where he was External Relations Director for 10 years.

His Dalton activities focus on Government policy around nuclear and energy, and on stakeholder and community engagement on nuclear issues. Adrian is also a consultant with US-based specialist nuclear communications company Full On Communications.

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Fiona Rayment enjoys a plural career covering nuclear advisory and non executive director roles and has extensive strategic and operational experience within the nuclear sector. 

As a non executive director she has led various governance activities including assurance and risk, health & safety, major projects, strategy and transformation. 

She is both a chartered chemist and engineer and holds various fellowships including the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the UK Nuclear Institute. She was an Executive Director and Chief Science and Technology Officer at the U.K. National Nuclear Laboratory until her retirement, 
She is passionate about diversity and has led on many national and international initiatives enabling this for the nuclear sector.

Her current roles include Chair of Nuclear Policy and Capability at Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester, Non Executive Director Nuclear Restoration Services, Vice Chair OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Steering Committee and member of DESNZ Science and Technology Advisory Council.

She was awarded an OBE in 2017,  the French Légion d’Honneur in 2020 and a DBE in 2026 for her work in the nuclear sector. 

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Rebecca has held senior leadership and executive roles across the NDA (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) Group for over 25 years, including Chief Operating Officer at Sellafield Ltd, where she was accountable for major nuclear operations, leading some of the group’s most significant operations and programmes, including retrieval activities from first generation UK nuclear activities, as well as the wider nuclear material management and reprocessing, treatment and storage, decommissioning and remediation for past and present UK programmes. She also led the site through the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

More recently, Rebecca was appointed as the first Director General Warhead within the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Nuclear Organisation, where she established the Warhead Group and led some of the UK’s most critical and complex work in support of UK defence and national security, working closely with AWE and partners in the US and France.

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Linda is an independent consultant, Non-executive Director and experienced finance leader, has fellowship status with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA) and more than 25 years’ experience at senior board and executive roles within the Nuclear, Defence and Transport sectors.

Linda began her career working in the Transport sector in commercial finance roles, including Volvo GB and Leyland DAF before joining the corporate finance team at British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) HQ, in 1999.  Linda led many projects through BNFL’s privatisation and following its liquidation remained in the nuclear sector, taking on a number of senior finance board appointments in multi-national organisations including Westinghouse, Springfields Fuels, Toshiba and Nuclear Transport Solutions.  

Linda is an expert in Finance, Governance, Risk, Audit and Assurance. is a commercially astute finance director with a solid understanding of the domestic and international nuclear sector. She has a strong track record of leading change, inspiring teams, and working effectively with internal and external stakeholders. A Fellow of the Nuclear Institute, Linda brings diverse thinking and acts as an Ambassador for Women in Nuclear, promoting diversity and inclusion across the sector. 

Linda joined Nuclear Transport Solutions as CFO in May 2023, then was appointed as Finance Director and an Executive member on the ONR Board in October 2024.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindaaylmore1/

Kirsty is a purpose-drive non-executive director, trustee, and independent consultant. Her current roles include serving as a NED at AWE PLC, where she also chairs the Safety, Sustainability, Health, Environment, and Quality Committee; a Lay Member of Council at Lancaster University and a Trustee/Director at The Nuclear Institute, where she chairs the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC).  She is also a Visiting Professor at the Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester.

Her executive career spanned over 30 years of operational, technical, and commercial leadership roles in the nuclear industry, including as Vice President of Environmental Services, and Global Director of Quality and Performance Improvement at Westinghouse. In 2010, she was a key negotiator in the Toshiba/Westinghouse acquisition of Springfields Fuels Limited from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).  Previously, as Head of Oxide Fuels, she was responsible for the design, manufacturing, and delivery of all the UK’s AGR nuclear fuel, ensuring security of supply for 20% of the nation’s electricity.

Kirsty is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineering, The Institute of Directors, and The Nuclear Institute, and is a Chartered Director. She holds a BSc in Physics from Manchester University, an MBA, and the IOD Diploma in Company Direction.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-armer-freng-fnuci-fiod-cdir-a0048163/

Virginia Crosbie FNucI is Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Energy Maritime Organization (NEMO), the international membership organisation working to enable the safe, secure and insurable use of nuclear energy at sea. She is also a Trustee and Board Director of the Nuclear Institute and Chair of Supporters of Nuclear Energy (SONE).

Virginia served as Member of Parliament for Ynys Môn from 2019 to 2024. In Parliament, she championed new nuclear development at Wylfa, chaired the Nuclear Delivery Group, founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Small Modular Reactors and served on the Public Bill Committee for the Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill.  She also helped secure Anglesey Freeport status in 2023.

Before entering politics, Virginia worked at GlaxoWellcome and built a career in financial services, including equity research roles at UBS and HSBC. She holds a degree in Microbiology from Queen Mary University of London and completed the Corporate Finance Programme at London Business School.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginiacrosbie/

The son of a Coal Miner, Richard first entered the nuclear sector as a graduate trainee over 35 years ago in a technically focused role at what was then BNFL Springfields, with a degree in Metallurgy and Materials. He quickly moved towards operations and project management where he has spent most of his career trying to deliver progress. Richard has enjoyed leadership roles across a wide range of the UK nuclear landscape working at several sites in support of Civil and Defence programmes and also in the USA. RIchard led the Innovate UK team working with Rolls-Royce SMR and he previously worked directly in UK Government as a Policy Official in Nuclear. He is now Managing Director UK of Quantum Leap Energy.

Richard regularly supports the Institute and wider sector as a delegate, speaker and advocate at events and seeks to influence and educate in the widest sense. In recent years he has served as a member of the Nuclear Institute Midlands Branch committee and on the Institute Policy Committee.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richdeakin-consulting/

Hannah Paterson is a programme manager for irradiated fuels at Sellafield Ltd developing new capabilities for long term spent fuel storage.

A Chartered Chemist by training, Hannah has a Master of Chemistry degree from the University of Edinburgh. She has over 10 years’ experience in radioactive waste management and fuel management systems having held leadership roles in strategy and technical programme development and implementation at both the NDA and Sellafield Ltd. Recent roles include serving as Board of Director for the European Nuclear Society.

An active advocate for the Nuclear Institute since starting in the industry Hannah served on the Strategic Committee for the YGN 2018-2022 and was chair of the YGN in 2021 having initiated the #NetZeroNeedsNuclear campaign at COP26.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahpaterson/

Jasbir is one of the UK's leading Operational Risk Analysts, with over 30 years of experience developing quantified holistic risk/safety models taking the role of the human being into consideration. He cut his teeth developing models for the UK civil nuclear power generation industry. 

Jasbir has a BEng (Hons) in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Manchester and an MBA from the University of Surrey where his final year dissertation covered valuing different base-load power generators, Coal, Gas and Nuclear taking financial (real) options theory into consideration.

He started his career as a Safety Engineer at Electrowatt International (3 years) and followed this with seven years at WS Atkins where his final role was Principal Risk Consultant. In 2000 he set-up CRA which was the second company and first SME to join the NI’s Company Membership Scheme. Jas was the Managing Director of CRA for 24 years and is now a  partner of Nuclear Capital LLP,  a partnership aiming to tap into the huge global expansion in large-scale nuclear and emerging Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)/Advanced Nuclear Technologies (ANTs) by assisting institutions and nuclear interested parties in deploying capital into the nuclear life cycle.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasbirsidhu/

Saralyn is Skills Lead for Great British Nuclear. She was previously a senior nuclear safety consultant working for Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd. She worked for various clients across the sector in new build, waste management and decommissioning projects, writing various safety case documentation. 

Saralyn is a former Chair of the NI Young Generation Network (2022), and served on the YGN Strategic Committee 2019 – 2023. Her other YGN roles include:

• YGN Vice-Chair and International Liaison, 2021
• YGN Marketing and Comms Lead, 2020
• YGN Secretary, 2019
• YGN representative for the NI Central England Branch, 2016 – 2018

https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralyn-thomas-39a55474/

Sasha is an experienced and effective economic and community regeneration professional having worked in both the private and public sectors at a senior level across Wales, the UK and overseas. She has a particular passion for Wales’ potential in maximising and developing its economy, realising its energy and natural resources potential to the benefit of Wales (and its visitors) and the wider UK. This includes developing low-carbon energy, especially nuclear, and tourism sectors, and improving communications and engagement with the business and community sectors.

Sasha's wealth of experience includes holding the roles of Head of Commercial at Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Head of Strategic Development Wales at Horizon Nuclear Power.

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