Members of Council
The management of the Society is vested in a Council - see the constitution for details.
To contact members of the Council, please use the Contact us link.
The current (2023 - 2024) Council is shown below.
The Board of Trustees comprises, ex officio, the President, the Vice Presidents, the Hon. Secretary and the Hon. Treasurer.
Officers of the Society
Nominated by Council for the 2023-24 Season
President
- Mr M Taylor BA DipTP MA MRTPI IHBC
Life Vice-Presidents
- Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FZS FSA
- Professor Aftab Khan BSc FGS FRAS FRSA HBM
- Mrs H. A .E. Lewis, J.P., M.A.
Vice Presidents
- Professor Sir Kent Woods MA MD ScM FRCP FMedSci
- Dr Bridget Towle CBE DL BA FRSA
- Mrs Gillian Johnston BSoc Sc PGCE Adv Dip Behavioural StMSc
- Professor Nigel Wood BA MA PhD
Hon. Secretary
- Mr Richard Graves BA
Hon. Membership Secretaries
- Mr David Beeson & Mrs Joan Beeson BSc
Hon. Programme Secretary
- Professor Alison Yarrington PhD FRSA FSA FRSEHon.
Treasurer
- Mr Ian R Johnson BA FCA
Hon. Editor of Transactions
- Mr Nigel Siesage JP MA
- Mr Patrick Holligan DipPub MLitt
Hon Publicity Officer
- Dr Diana Thurston BSc MSc PhD FGS
Assistant Publicity Officer
- Mrs Ann Fuchs
Website Editor
- Professor JC Fothergill MSc PhD CEng CPhys FIET FIEEE FInstP
Members of Council
- Mr K Chhapi Dip Arch FRIBA
- Mrs HE Graves
- Dr R Shannon MA MB DCH FRCP FRCPCH
- Professor G Egan BA MA PhD
- Mr Rob Purdy MBE BA ATC MA
- Mr Iain Reid DipTP Dip LD MRTPI (Rtd) CMLI (Rtd)
- Professor Surinder Sharma BA Hon DLitt Hon LLD JP DL
- Professor M Stannard BA MA PhD FEA FRLS
- Professor N.P. Wood BA MA PhD
- The Vice-Chancellor of De Montfort University represented by Professor Egan
- The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester represented by Professor Stannard
- The Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University represented by Professor Wood
- One representative of the Geology Section
- One representative of the Natural History Section
- Geology Section, Hon Secretary: Mr G Drummond
- Natural History Section, Hon Secretary: Mr A Bevington
Independent Examiner
- Mr Peter Fuchs MA