New BGS Board member
New non-executive director appointed to the BGS Board.
01/03/2024 By BGS Press
Following an open recruitment exercise in autumn 2023, Tom Karsten, CBE has been appointed to the BGS Board for a period of three years, from March 2024.
Sir Mike Dixon, principal of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, left the board on 29 February 2024, having served since its creation in 2018.
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