From Birdcage Walk Dear Member,
And so, as our Institution turns 174 years old this month, it’s time to report on the latest changes and modernisation we have underway to ensure we are ‘fit for purpose’ as a learned society intended to bring “an impulse to inventions likely to be useful to the world”.
For those of you who have been following our recent history, you will know that Dr Kerry Mashford has been leading our Implementation Group putting the final touches to the 96 improvements highlighted in the Reviews of 2018 and 2019. They will all be in place, or at least plans for what to do in each case, by the time of our Presidential handover in May. You may well already have seen some of the changes with a new Finance Board, with a new and more open Nominations Committee and with a completely new Governance Department keeping an eye on how we operate. There are two areas in particular however where we want you to think about now regarding what is ch