Finance Committee
The Finance Committee oversees the progress of the Society’s finances on behalf of the Council of Trustees. Due diligence for financial monitoring includes the review of the annual budget, longer-term financial modelling and the Annual Report and Accounts.
Finance Committee Terms of Reference
Finance Committee
5 members
Professor Frank Sargent
Professor Frank Sargent
Professor Sheila Graham
Professor Sheila Graham
Professor Nigel Hooper
Professor Nigel Hooper
Sukhraj Dhadwar
Sukhraj Dhadwar
Sukhraj joined the Institute of Physics in August 2021 as the Chief Financial Officer, with responsibility for governance, compliance, and finance.
He is a qualified accountant with more than 20 years of financial management experience in plc and high-growth SMEs in the commercial sector, including care home, healthcare, retail, leisure and media enterprises.
Sukhraj is currently an Independent Member of the Biochemical Society Finance Committee and also a trustee of PayPal Giving Fund, where he is Chair of the Audit Committee.
Michael Kyriakides
Michael Kyriakides
Michael is a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the charity and not-for-profit sector. Originally, he worked at the audit firm BDO, managing their clients in the charity sector. From 2003 onwards Michael left the audit profession to work for a wide range of charitable organisations as Finance Director which included science-based organisations such as The Geological Society, the Royal Astronomical Society and more recently the Association of Clinical Biochemistry.
The experience gained has meant Michael is very familiar with dealing with Membership, Publishing, Science Meetings and Conferences, Education, Investments, Pension Schemes, Grantmaking and Bursaries. Michael was also previously the Honorary Treasurer of the British Deaf Association, and is currently the Fire Brigade Union’s Director of Finance. He is also a Statistics graduate of Queen Mary University, London.