UKRI Board member
Professor Julia Black FBA is a member of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Board, which is responsible for managing £6 billion of funding for research within the UK.
Julia is Strategic Director for Innovation at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She was previously the Pro Director for Research (2014 to 2019) and from 2016 to 2017 also served as LSE’s Interim Director.
She is currently leading on the implementation of the LSE’s 2030 strategy, on LSE’s entrepreneurship and commercialisation activities, and led the development of the LSE’s PhD Academy and the new School of Public Policy.
Julia is also a Professor in the LSE’s Law Department and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her primary research interest is in regulation with a specialisation in financial services regulation and in the regulation of risk.
She has published widely on issues relating to regulation and advised a range of governmental and consumer bodies in the UK and overseas on issues of institutional design and regulatory policy. She is a research associate of LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation.
Julia is an external member of the Prudential Regulation Committee at the Bank of England, which is the board of the UK’s banking and insurance supervisor, and an external member of the SONIA Oversight Committee, also at the Bank of England.
She was also a member of the board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority from January 2014 to December 2018, and chaired its policy committee.
Last updated: 25 August 2023