Chief Exdecutive of UKRI Mark Walport addresses PM-STIAC

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New Delhi : Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation, Professor Mark Walport, on a two-day visit to Delhi at the invitation of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Professor K Vijay Raghavan, addressed the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).

Chaired by Professor K VijayRaghavan, the PM-STIAC is an overarching body that assesses specific science and technology domains in India, and formulates interventions and roadmaps. It advises Prime Minister Narendra Modi on all matters of science, technology and innovation.

Professor Mark met the PM-STIAC and delivered a lecture on the creation of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), one of the most significant reforms in the UK’s research and innovation funding landscape in the last 50 years. Launched in April 2018 as an independent, non-departmental public body, UKRI brings together the functions of the seven Research Councils, Innovate UK and a new organisation, Research England, according to a PIB release.