Professor Richard Ellis
(BSc, PhD, CBiol, FIBiol)
- Appointed Governor March 2005.
- Currently Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Reading, and Professor of Crop Production.
- Formerly Head of School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Head of Department of Agriculture, Reader in Crop Physiology and Senior Research Fellow.
- Principal research areas in Anhydrous Biology (e.g. seed science), Climate Change Impacts, Crop Phenology and Agronomy with strong overseas links.
- Author of over 300 publications.
- He currently sits on the Audit Committee.
