Thought and Leaders

Your COVID-19 questions answered by leading HM government scientific advisor, Sir David King

August 25, 2020 Jonathan Gabay Season 3 Episode 5
Thought and Leaders
Your COVID-19 questions answered by leading HM government scientific advisor, Sir David King
Show Notes

We asked the top Scientific advisor the kind of candid COVID questions governments refuse to answer.

Sir David King was the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and Head of the Government Office for Science.
 
He is an Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) (2000-2007), Fellow of the Royal Society, Chair of the Centre for Climate Repair, Cambridge, and much more besides. 

He serves as the Chair for the Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (indie_SAGE).   Independent SAGE provides robust, independent advice to HM Government with the purpose of helping the UK navigate COVID-19 whilst minimising fatalities

Sir David has published over 500 papers on science and policy, for which he has received numerous awards, and holds 22 Honorary Degrees from universities around the world.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991, a Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and knighted in 2003, Sir David was also made an Officier of the French Legion d’Honneur’ in 2009, for work which has contributed to responding to the climate and energy challenge.

In this very special episode of Thought and Leaders, Sir David talks frankly to Jonathan Gabay about the UK’s response to COVID-19.   

The programme features questions that have been sent worldwide for Sir David to answer.

The questions deal with real COVID concerns people have from all walks of life.

Many are hard-hitting.

If you are concerned about your health, welfare and future post-COVID-19, you simply cannot afford to miss this absorbing episode of Thought and Leaders.

(44 minutes listening time).

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