Dr Chris Tyler

Executive Director and Member of Executive Committee, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.

Dr Chris Tyler joins CSaP from the House of Commons, where he has been science adviser to the Science and Technology Select Committee for the past three years. During this time he guided Committee inquiries into scientific advice in government and science funding, and was the architect of the IUSS Committee’s major report on engineering. A keen advocate of evidence-based policy, Chris also pioneered the Science and Technology Committee’s ‘Evidence Check’ programme.

With a broad range of expertise on the relationships between science and policy, Chris' advice has been sought internationally, most recently in New Zealand, where he spent a month working with the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister on a project to improve the use of evidence of policy making.

Before the House of Commons, Chris worked for Sense About Science where he managed and developed the charity’s extensive network of scientists and promoted science in public debates on issues as diverse as climate change, chemicals, alternative medicines and nuclear power. Chris has a degree in anthropology from the University of Durham, and a PhD in biological anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

Email: cptyler@csap.cam.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1223 768392