SKA Board meets (July 2013)

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The SKA Board recently met at the SKA Organisation's HQ at Jodrell Bank. The image above shows the Directors of the SKA Organisation and senior SKA Office staff. The new SKA Science Director, Robert Braun (formerly of ASTRON) is one of the most recent new recruits.

Top Row (l to r): Hans Olofsson (Director, Sweden), Elena Righi-Steele (Guest, European Commission), Beatrix Vierkotn-Rudolph (Director, Germany), LI Xin (Director, China), John Womersley (Chair of the SKA Board of Directors, UK), Phil Mwjara (Director, South Africa), ZHAO Jing (Director, China), Giampaolo Vettolani (Director, Italy), Jonathan Kings (Deputy Chair of the SKA Board of Directors, New Zealand), Peter Dewdney (Guest, SKA Organisation), Denis Mourard (Guest, CNRS/INSU, France).

Middle Row (l to r): Ian Corbett (Guest, Consultant), Mohsine Chefki (Guest, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany), Brian Boyle (Director, Australia), Ethan Schreier (Guest, Associated Universities Inc, USA), Phil Diamond (Director-General, SKA Organisation), Paul Alexander (Director, UK), David Luchetti (Director, Australia), Bernie Fanaroff (Director, South Africa), Rowena Sirey (Guest, European Southern Observatory).

Front Row (l to r): Tim Cornwell (Guest, SKA Organisation), Yashwant Gupta (Observer, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India), John Conway (Director, Sweden), Mike Garrett (Director, Netherlands), Sean Dougherty (Director, Canada), Robert Braun (Guest, SKA Organisation), Luigina Feretti (Director, Italy), Colin Greenwood (Company Secretary, SKA Organisation), Patricia Vogel (Director, Netherlands).

The Board meeting itself was very constructive with the board agreeing a 650M� cost-cap for SKA-1 - see http://www.skatelescope.org/news/outcomes-ska-board-meeting-july-2013/ for further details.