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Paul Drechsler CBE
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Harry Swan
Chair, Board of Trustees

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Sharon Todd
Chief Executive Officer

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A manifesto for an industrial science and innovation strategy

SCI unveiled its Manifesto for an Industrial Science & Innovation Strategy in August 2023.

The manifesto explains what we need as a country to catch up to – and then outsprint - our competitors. Crucially, this manifesto needs to be read in the context that the UK trails science savvy rivals – and drastically so.

We are SCI: Where Science Meets Business

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The story of SCI begins in 1881

When a prominent group of forward-thinking scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs founded The Society of Chemical Industry. Our founding members went on to set up major businesses, producing many of the daily products we recognise today...

SCI Presidents, from 1881 to today

Since the Society's foundation in 1881, the post of SCI President has been held by many world-leading scientists, inventors, business people and industrialists.

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