Fiona Rayment is the Chief Science and Technology Officer at the UK National Nuclear Laboratory and has dedicated decades to the nuclear sector with extensive strategic and operational experience. She is a chartered chemist and engineer with a PhD in chemistry from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the UK Nuclear Institute. She has an MBA from Manchester Business School. Fiona’s has recently served as a member of Euratom’s Science and Technology Committee, the Idaho National Laboratory's Nuclear Science and Technology Advisory Committee, the American Nuclear Society Board, the UK Nuclear Institute and is immediate past chair of the UK’s Nuclear Skills Strategy Group. Her current roles across the sector include being a member of the Nuclear Industry Council and the Office of Nuclear Regulation Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Independent Advisory Panel. Fiona is chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Energy Division at CEA - the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, a Non-Executive Member of the UK Space Agency Steering Board, Patron of Women in Nuclear UK and President Elect of the UK Nuclear Institute. In addition to representing the UK at a variety of international meetings, Fiona is a regular keynote and plenary speaker at international nuclear conferences and is a vice chair of the Nuclear Energy Agency’s Steering Committee Bureau and Policy Director of the Generation IV International Forum. Fiona has long advocated widening participation in science and engineering and champions our sector-leading approach to diversity and inclusion. She was awarded an OBE in 2017 and the French Légion d’Honneur in 2020.