Membership

Details of the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council's members and the council's terms of reference.


The members of the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council (ISAC) are senior figures consisting of business leaders, academics and trade unionists, who have a notable track record in their fields.

Members will:

  • engage closely with businesses, trade unions and local leaders
  • monitor and evaluate progress on growth-driving sectors
  • make recommendations to ministers  
  • work closely with other bodies, like Skills England and the Migration Advisory Committee

Chair

  • Clare Barclay – President, Enterprise and Industry (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), Microsoft

Members

  • Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester (deputy chair) 

  • Dr Aislinn Rice, Non-Executive Director, Software NI 

  • Dame Anita Frew, Chair of Rolls-Royce Holdings  

  • Professor Dame Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge 

  • The Rt Hon Greg Clark, Executive Chair of University of Warwick Innovation District  

  • Greg Jackson CBE, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Octopus Energy 

  • Professor Henry Overman, Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics (LSE) 

  • Henrik L. Pedersen, CEO, Associated British Ports 

  • Sir John Kingman, Chair of Legal and General, and Chair of Barclays UK 

  • Kate Bell, Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress  

  • Roy Rickhuss, General Secretary Community Trade Union 

  • Baroness Shriti Vadera PC, Chair of Prudential plc and Chair of The Royal Shakespeare Company  

  • Tunde Olanrewaju, Senior Partner, McKinsey 

  • Chris Grigg CBE, Chair of the National Wealth Fund (ex officio member)  

  • Richard Pennycook CBE, interim Chair of Skills England (ex officio member)

‘Ex-officio members’ are people who become members automatically because they hold a particular office.

Members are subject to completion of full security clearances as per all public appointments.

Terms of reference

Industrial Strategy Advisory Council terms of reference (PDF, 105 KB, 5 pages)