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Sharon Todd

Chief Executive Officer, Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) is based in Cities of London and Westminster — the organisation’s base, not a personal address.

Press citations

1

Topic

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Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

Last quoted

Aug 2026

Sharon Todd: key facts

Kind of voice
Sector leader
Role
Chief Executive Officer
Organisation
Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)
Organisation based in
Cities of London and Westminster
Quoted on
Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Tracked press citations
1
Most recently quoted
27 Aug 2026

Who Sharon Todd is

Sharon Todd is Chief Executive Officer of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), a registered charity and learned society established in 1881, headquartered at Belgrave Square, London. She joined SCI as Executive Director in June 2015, having previously spent over 25 years in the chemical industry working for global corporations, including board positions in listed companies, and ran her own consultancy for eight years focused on strategic repositioning and commercialising technology start-ups. She studied chemistry at Southampton University and holds diplomas from the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Directors. Todd is known for publicly advocating for a UK industrial science and innovation strategy, arguing in outlets including The Economist, Sky News, and BBC Radio 4 that the decline of basic chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing poses a serious risk to national resilience and public health supply chains. SCI's remit explicitly covers health and wellbeing as one of its core thematic areas, and Todd has argued that without policy intervention the UK risks losing the industrial base underpinning life sciences.

“The growing exodus of large-scale businesses from the UK is immensely alarming.”

References for this biography

  1. 1.Society of Chemical Industry – Profile: Sharon Todd — Confirms her role as CEO/Executive Director, joining date of 15 June 2015, career background, education at Southampton University, and prior consultancy work.
  2. 2.Society of Chemical Industry – Key People — Confirms current title as Chief Executive Officer of SCI.
  3. 3.Sharon Todd calls for government to adopt SCI Manifesto in The Economist — Evidences her public advocacy on industrial science policy and the life sciences/health sector economic argument.
  4. 4.SCI CEO Sharon Todd features on Sky News piece 'The UK is losing the industry that makes everything' — Documents her media profile and arguments about UK pharmaceutical and chemical production decline.
  5. 5.Society of Chemical Industry – Charity Commission contact information — Confirms registered address as 14–15 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PS and organisational phone number.
  6. 6.SCI CEO Sharon Todd appears on BBC Any Questions — Confirms her participation in public debate on science and health/industrial policy.

Notable achievements

  • Authored a piece in The Economist calling for a UK industrial science and innovation strategy, citing SCI-commissioned research showing the UK risks losing £230bn GVA and 240,000 jobs in life sciences and cleantech by 2030 without such a strategy. Source ↗
  • Featured on Sky News in a major investigation into the UK's declining basic chemical production capability, including pharmaceuticals, plastics and fertilisers. Source ↗
  • Appeared as a panellist on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions alongside serving MPs, representing science and industry perspectives on topical public affairs. Source ↗

Where Sharon Todd has been quoted

  1. Big pharma will stop investing in UK, top scientist warns after Merck’s £1bn exittheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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