AEC Fellows: Nick Ross

Nick Ross University College London Email: nick@nickross.com www.nickross.com

Nick Ross is a UK broadcaster and journalist best known for a top-rated crime appeal programme Crimewatch (the forerunner to America's Most Wanted). A psychologist by background he is a champion of evidence-based policy in health, community safety and social sciences. He founded the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London, has served on several British government crime reduction and health policy commissions, and has been a member of national bioethics committees, the Royal Society/Royal Institution Committee on the Public Understanding of Science, guest director of the world's biggest science festival (at Cheltenham, England), and (twice) chairman of the UK Science Book Prize jury. He is a trustee of Sense About Science, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and visiting professor and honorary Fellow of UCL.

 

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