Registered Interests
Registered Interests for Lord Willetts.
The Register is updated continuously throughout each sitting day and at regular intervals on other days.
Category 1: Directorships
- Non-executive Director, The Biotech Growth Trust plc (venture capital fund investing in life sciences)
- Director and sole owner, Marchmount Executive Services Limited
- Member of the Board, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (interest ceased 4 March 2024)
- Chair, Verditek plc (clean energy technologies) (interest ceased 4 March 2024)
- Director, Thames Holdings Ltd (promoting education and life sciences links with China) (unremunerated until 6 November 2023)
- Non-executive Director, Tekcapital plc (investment group focused on creating market value from university technology) (member has share options)
- Non-executive Director, SatixFy UK (communications technology company)
- Non-executive Director, Darktrace Ltd (cyber security)
- Non-executive Director, SatixFy Communications Ltd (parent company of SatixFy UK; communications technology company)
- Chair, Gen IP (tech company)
Category 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
- President, The Resolution Foundation (think-tank)
- Visiting Professor, King’s College, London
- Occasional journalism
- Occasional lectures and presentations
- In receipt of royalties from writing books
- Member, Advisory Board of Open Classrooms (education technology) (member has share options)
- Member, Strategic Advisory Council, LifeArc (medical research charity) (interest ceased 4 March 2024)
- Chair, UK Space Agency Board
- Strategic Adviser, HighTide (pharmaceutical company) (remunerated via contract with Thames Holdings Ltd)
- Speaking engagements, 6 and 13 May 2024, 11 and 17 June 2024, Global Issues Dialogue Centre, Jesus College, Cambridge
- Speaking engagement, 18 June 2024, presentation to Board of Aviva plc, Horsham (fee donated to The Resolution Foundation)
Category 3: Person with significant control of a company (PSC)
- Marchmount Executive Services Limited (100 per cent owner)
Category 4: Shareholdings (a)
- Marchmount Executive Services Limited (100 per cent owner: see category 1)
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
- Vantix Diagnostics Inc (formerly Vantix Limited) (company developing biosensors)
- Sirius Constellation Limited (see category 10(a))
- Darktrace
- SynBioVen Limited
Category 5: Land and property
- A flat in West London (interest ceased 4 March 2024)
Category 6: Sponsorship
- The member receives research support from a PhD student from King’s College London as part of a training scheme for which the student receives a stipend (interest ceased 4 March 2024)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
- Member, Raspberry Pi Foundation (registered charity; computer science education)
- Director, Sirius Constellation Limited
- Director, Konigswinter Steering Committee (interest ceased 4 March 2024)
- Board Member, President’s Advisory Committee, Royal Society
- Director, Synbiotek Holdings Limited (financial services) (non-trading) (interest ceased 4 March 2024)
- Adviser (advice given on projects which are candidates to invest in), Creator Fund (investing in PhD, academic and student founders building businesses out of university innovation)
- Director and Co-chair, SynbioVen Limited (invests in synthetic biology companies)
- Member, Advisory Board, European Space Policy Institute
Category 10: Non-financial interests (b)
- Member of Council, University of Southampton
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
- Co-Chair, Pontignano Conference
- Governor, Pensions Policy Institute
- Trustee, Booker Prize Foundation
- Chair, Foundation of Science and Technology
- Member, Cancer Research UK
- President, China Insight Foundation