COO update - 4 August 2025

BIA Annual General Meeting 2025: Nominations open for BIA Board election

The BIA is a not-for-profit membership-based UK trade association. To ensure we operate appropriately, we have a Board of Directors made up of representatives from across our industry, drawn from the members we represent.

The BIA Board of Directors provides sovereign governance, ensuring our Articles of Association are upheld and that our work as the secretariat is representative of the broad range of industrial areas in which our members operate.

We are delighted to invite nominations from individuals interested in joining the BIA Board. Nominations must be received by close of business on Friday 12 September 2025.

Nick Gardiner
COO, BIA

Key details

This year, there are five places up for election - four for 'Corporate' members and one for 'Other' members. The election will then take place during September and into October, and pending approval at the AGM in the Autumn, those elected will join the BIA's Board commencing 1 January 2026 and will serve a three-year term.

Nomination requirements

Nominations must include a 200–300-word supporting text and a current picture. This text shouldn’t simply be an outline of your career to date, but include headings that highlight your specific skills, suitability, experiences and motivations, which you believe are relevant to becoming a Non-Executive Director of the BIA. Please reference the work of the Association and where you feel you can add value. Be mindful that when members vote for board candidates, they should do so based on that candidate’s potential to represent their viewpoints, issues and geographies as well as those of the whole innovative life sciences and biotech industry.

Eligibility

Please do notify any of your colleagues who you think may be interested and qualify with the following criteria:

Eligibility for Corporate Members is that nominees shall, at the time of their election, be Chief Executive Officers, or divisional chiefs (or their equivalent) or chairperson of a Corporate member company (except in the case of a Corporate Member which is a UK branch or subsidiary of a foreign corporation, in which case a senior representative of the UK branch or subsidiary may be appointed). Within the 'Other' Member category nominees shall, at the time of their election, be employees of either an Associate Member company or a Network Member company.

Only one representative from any member company may be appointed to the Board.

How to submit your nomination

Please submit your nomination by the end of the day, Friday 12 September 2025, together with a photograph and your biography. These should be sent to Nick Gardiner, Company Secretary at [email protected]