Graham Turnock

Graham Turnock is a British physicist who is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Space Agency.[1]

Dr

Graham Turnock
Chief Executive Officer of the UK Space Agency
Assumed office
March 2017
MonarchHM Queen Elizabeth II
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Personal details
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge

Biography

Turnock's hobbies include hostelling, cycling, and volunteering.[2]

Turnock holds a PhD in Particle Physics from Cambridge University for his work at European Organization for Nuclear Research.[3] For 15 years, Graham Turnock worked in HM Treasury, notably as leader of the Transport Spending Team.[4] Before joining the UK Space Agency as Chief Executive Officer, Turnock served as Director of Better Regulation in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.[5]

Graham Turnock has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Space Agency since March 2017.[6] During his time as CEO of the UK Space Agency, he has attempted to gain closer relationships with the Australian Space Agency via Sabre. Sabre is a synergetic air-breathing rocket engine developed by Reaction Engines.[7]

During Brexit negotiations warned that if the United Kingdom was expelled from the Galileo program, it would set it back by years and cost the European Union billions.[8]

See Also
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gollark: Floating Points: Who needs associative addition anyway?
gollark: You can then do maths on them and the only precision issues might come from 64-bit ints, but bignums exist.
gollark: Er, as numerator and denominator, I mean.
gollark: No, I mean, you can store actual rational numbers as actual fractions and get no precision issues.

References
  1. "UK 'stands ready to play full part in European Space Agency'" – via www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
  2. https://www.yha.org.uk/about-yha/board-trustees/graham-turnock
  3. "The Inaugural Space Panel: Generating Impact within the General Public | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk.
  4. "FIA Connect 2020 | Farnborough". FIA Connect 2020 | Farnborough.
  5. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/725915/AnnualReport17-18.pdf
  6. "Dr Graham Turnock". GOV.UK.
  7. "United Kingdom Space Agency aiming for supersonic aircraft from 2030". www.naratek.com.
  8. "EU Cold Shoulders The UK Over Brexit". iExpats. April 26, 2018.


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