Dr Ray Elliott
MA CSci CChem FRSC
Ray Elliott is Senior Scientific Advisor at Syngenta, Bracknell.
During his 27 years in the agrochemical industry, Ray has held a wide variety of scientific and managerial positions within research and development including in synthetic and process chemistry, environmental sciences and latterly analytical sciences. He has also managed large multi-disciplinary and multi-national projects in R&D.
He has been an active member of a number of committees within BAA (British Agrochemical Association now known as the Crop Protection Association) and BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) and is currently a member of the Project Management Committee for the new LINK scheme on Renewable Materials, the Innovation, Science and Technology Committee of the CBI, and the Steering Committee of the Integrated Bio-refining Technologies Initiative (IBTI) set up by the Bioscience for Business Knowledge Transfer Network.
He chairs the RSC Science, Education and Industry Board and has been a member of RSC Council since 2009.
Ray Elliott takes an active interest in education at all levels, having had links with Cambridge University Chemistry Department for many years and been a Junior School Governor for 10 years and a Governor of East Berkshire College of Further Education for 7 years.
Ray is married to Clare, who is also a chemist at Syngenta and they have five children, aged from 17 to 23.
