Sir Brian Heap is Research Associate at the Centre for Development Studies, Cambridge, former Master of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, and a Fellow and former Foreign Secretary of The Royal Society. He is an eminent animal biologist and was Director of the Babraham Institute, Cambridge and the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, and Director of Science, UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. He was the UK representative on the NATO Science Committee, President of the European Academies Science Advisory Council, and has worked with the World Health Organization in China. Professor Heap holds doctorates from Cambridge and Nottingham, has published extensively, holds distinguished awards for his scientific and international work, and currently works on energy for off-grid villages and the bottom billion.