Registered Interests
Registered Interests for Lord Willetts.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
- Non-executive Director, The Biotech Growth Trust plc (venture capital fund investing in life sciences) (interest ceased 17 July 2025)
- President, The Resolution Foundation (think-tank)
- Visiting Professor, King’s College, London
- Director and sole owner, Marchmount Executive Services Limited
- 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) (interest ceased 17 May 2025)
- Director, Thames Holdings Ltd (promoting education and life sciences links with China)
- Non-executive Director, Tekcapital plc (investment group focused on creating market value from technologies) (member has share options)
- Non-executive Director, SatixFy UK (communications technology company) (interest ceased 3 July 2025)
- Non-executive Director, Darktrace Limited (cyber security) (interest ceased 1 October 2024)
- Chair, UK Space Agency Board
- Strategic Adviser, HighTide (pharmaceutical company) (remunerated via contract with Thames Holdings Ltd)
- Non-executive Director, SatixFy Communications Ltd (parent company of SatixFy UK; communications technology company) (interest ceased 3 July 2025)
- Chair, Gen IP (company assessing value of new technologies)
- Chair, Regulatory Innovation Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
- Marchmount Executive Services Limited (100 per cent owner: see category 1)
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
- Vantix Diagnostics Inc (formerly Vantix Limited) (company developing biosensors)
- Sirius Constellation Limited
- Darktrace Ltd (cyber security) (interest ceased 1 October 2024)
- SynBioVen Limited
Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
- Visit to California, 5-8 May 2025, to attend the SynBioBeta conference; flights and accommodation costs paid by SynBiCITE, a Synthetic Biology centre at Imperial College, London.
- Attended Ecole Polytechnique Ball, 16 May 2025, Paris (guest of OHB)