NSSG Members
| Name | Sector | Organisations |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Fiona Rayment OBE | Research & Development | NIRO, National Nuclear Laboratory |
| Gregory Ashurst | Government | Dept for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Clare Barlow | Research & Development | National Nuclear Laboratory |
| Chris Bowbrick | Government | Dept for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy |
| Mike Roberts | Nuclear Institute | Young Generation Network (YGN) |
| Mari Milsom | Defence Supply Chain | AWE |
| Phil Oxley | Department for Education | Department for Education |
| Liv Donne | Government | Welsh Government |
| Jennie Chapman | Power Generation & New Nuclear Build | EDF Energy |
| Sue Ferns | Unions | TUC (Prospect) |
| Chris Goulty | Defence Supply Chain | Rolls Royce |
| Tom Haffenden | Nuclear New Build | China General Nuclear |
| Richard McMeekin | Defence | Ministry of Defence |
| John Male | Regulation | Office for Nuclear Regulation |
| Simon Merrell | Nuclear New Build | Horizon Nuclear Power |
| Zhu Minhong | Nuclear New Build | China General Nuclear |
| Steve Mitchell (Commander) | Defence | Royal Navy |
| Joanna Woolf | Skills | Cogent Skills |
| Stuart Yellowlees | Supply Chain | NSAN Employer Advisory Board |
| David Vineall | Government | NDA |
| David Boath | Engineering | ECITB Nuclear Employer Forum |
Fiona Rayment is the Executive Director of NIRO, a division of the UK National Nuclear Laboratory that is charged with providing strategic nuclear advice to Her Majesty's Government.
She has more than 25 years of nuclear industry experience working primarily within operations and strategic planning roles across a number of different nuclear sites, both in the UK and internationally. Rayment is a chartered chemist and engineer with a PhD in chemistry from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the UK Nuclear Institute. She has an MBA from Manchester Business School. Rayment recently received an OBE in the 2017 Queen's birthday honours for her services to Nuclear innovation and research.
Rayment's other roles across the sector include being on the board of the UK Nuclear Institute, and the American Nuclear Society. She is a member of the UK Research Councils Fusion Advisory Panel, Office of Nuclear Regulation Independent Advisory Panel and Idaho National Laboratory's Nuclear Science and Technology Advisory Committee. Rayment is the chair of the UK’s Nuclear Skills Strategy Group, the strategic body that oversees UK nuclear sector skills requirements, and chairs the Nuclear Energy Agency’s NI 2050 advisory panel.
Joanna has led the evolution of Cogent Skills to become the leading training and skills service provider in the UK for science-based industries.
Joanna started her career as an engineering apprentice at Simon Engineering, Cheadle, where she studied for an OND. She is a firm advocate of the apprenticeship route to develop jobs and careers and is now proud to lead a company that is at the forefront of developing Apprenticeships throughout the science-based industries.
After graduating with a First in Mechanical Engineering from UMIST in 1982, Joanna entered BP’s graduate programme, spending 12 months establishing the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in the Shetlands; her career at BP culminated in a head office role working on speculative oil finds for potential sites around the globe.
Moving to ICI, Joanna began at the Wilton site as plant manager in Advanced Business Materials, and then moved to the Runcorn site to set up turnaround programmes. At the age of 29 she was promoted to Engineering Manager, holding responsibility for 600 people across all trades and disciplines, and tasked with establishing a site training organisation and training to NVQ standards with TTE at Ellesmere Port. After switching to global business management within the ICI Chlor chemicals downstream business, Joanna moved into strategic supply chain global logistics.
She studied for her MBA at Manchester Business School, before joining Hays Chemicals as Manufacturing Director in 2000. The Hays business was acquired by Albion Inorganic Chemicals where Joanna fulfilled the role of Operations Director. She joined Cogent Skills as CEO in 2005.
