President: Mr John Harlow MBE
Born 3 April 1947. Joined the Society in 1971 and elected to Fellow in 1976. He was President of the Society 2000-2002. He serves on the Finance & General Purposes Committee, History Committee, International Liaison Committee and Membership Committee.
After working at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott for 27 years, he is now an independent consultant carrying out work for the Ministry of Defence, United Nations and a large US propulsion company.
He will continue existing efforts to apply new technologies to increase the efficient running of the Society. Encourage more involvement of the membership in the Society events and also increase marketing and visibility of the Society both at home and abroad.   

Vice President: Dr Robert Charles Parkinson MBE
Born 15 July 1941. Joined the Society in
1956 and elected to Fellow in 1977. He served on the Council from 1968 -1971, 1975-1978 and 1982 to 1985. He is currently a Vice-President. He gained his doctorate in 1965 from the University of Nottingham. He has worked for the Rocket Propulsion Establishment, Perme, British Aerospace, Matra Marconi and Astrium. He has had papers published in Spaceflight and JBIS. He also worked on Project Daedalus.
He is a Vice-President of the International Astronautical Federation Bureau and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and was awarded the MBE in the 2002 New Years Honours List.
He would like to encourage the BIS to continue being an advocate for enthusiastic development of future developments in astronautics.

Richard Bavin
Born 14 October 1948. Joined the Society in 1991 and elected to Fellow in 1994. He serves on the BIS Technical Committee and International Liaison Committee. He began his career at the Royal Aircraft Establishment as an aircraft/engine craft apprentice in 1965. Reflecting QinetiQ's new privatised status the department was reorganised around three business groups and was appointed Deputy Business Group Manager for Missions. He is a member of the K1 Systems Future People Strategy Group; The Institute of Management; Royal Aeronautical Society and the RAeS Space Group Committee. He feels that his election to Council will allow him to bring his experience to the benefit of the Society and its members.

Rex Hall MBE
Born 6 November 1946. Joined the Society in 1973 and elected to Fellow in 1986. He has worked all his life within Education not as a teacher but in a variety of roles with alienated young people and then in a variety of senior Management positions. He his now self-employed and working as an Education Consultant. He is the Society's current President and serves on the following committees: Finance and General Purposes, Library, Membership, Programme and Soviet Sub-Committee. He became interested in Spaceflight at the time of Gagarin's Flight. Over the next few years he read and followed the development of human space exploration. He has been involved in the Soviet Space Forum since its inception. These meetings have become an annual event. It has meant that the Society has been at the forefront of publishing material on the history of the Soviet Union's Space Programme, through both our publications and the Mir book.
He will continue to work to make the Society more successful in its aim to promote space travel and to secure its long term future as the best space Society in the world.

Alistair Scott
Born in Hong Kong and educated in Bangkok, Malaya, England and Scotland, he joined Hawker Siddeley Aviation at Hatfield in 1967. Gaining an Aeronautical Engineering degree from Bristol University, he worked in Design and Sales Engineering on the Trident, Airbus, HS125, and HS146 aircraft. In 1978 he joined British Aerospace Dynamics in Stevenage as a Marketing Manager for missile systems in the Middle East and in 1984 moved over to British Aerospace Space Systems as Marketing Manager, Communications Satellites, in the Middle East, Far East and Australia. He became PR Manager for Matra Marconi Space (UK) in 1995 and was appointed Director of Communications for the Telecommunications and Navigation Division Astrium on its formation in May 2000. After a period as Communications Director (UK), EADS Space, he is now Communications & PR Adviser (UK) EADS Astrium, based in Stevenage, UK.

He is a member of the BIS Programme Committee and a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society. His other interests include the Territorial Army, military vehicles, vintage cars, sailing and cartooning.

Living up to its motto, 'From Imagination to Reality', the British Interplanetary Sociey has always been 'ahead of the game' in proposing and predicting man's use and exploration of space. In order to retain this position and maintain the respect of its peers across the world as many other nations join the 'space race', I consider it important that the Society is kept fully informed of current and proposed activities both in industry and academia. I believe I can help to maintain this firm  base from which the Society can continue to promote the further use and exploration of space.

Anthony Errington
Born 28th October 1938. Joined the Society in 1984 and elected to Fellow. Student Apprenticeship with English Electric Stevenage and Bachelor in Technology from Loughborough College in 1961. He received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1970. He worked on Apollo and Shuttle Guidance and Control and early Space Station studies while employed by Lockheed Electronics Co at the Manned Spacecraft Centre. During 25 years with the European Space Agency at ESTEC he was responsible for Data Management and Communications Systems development on the Spacelab, Hipparcos, Columbus and DMS-R programmes. He would like to support the Society in fostering interest in manned and unmanned exploration of the Solar System and to promote the Societies aims and endeavours.

Gerald Groves
Born 10 November 1927. Joined the Society in 1950 and elected to Fellow in 1950. He serves on the BIS International Liaison Committee and Constitutional Review Committee. He was the Editor of Spaceflight from 1981 to 2000, and has been the Editor of JBIS twice from 1968 to 1975 and 1999 to 2002. He has served as a Council member since 1961 to date and was President from 1970 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979, and was one of the Vice-Presidents for 2003.
He hopes to continue to promote the Society through its international membership and programme of publications.

Mark Hempsell
Born 10th September 1954. Joined the Society in 1971 and elected to Fellow in 1984. He is currently a member of Council and is the immediate Past President. He serves on the Finance and General Purposes Committee and the Technical Committee. His career in astronautics started at British Aerospace Space and Communications Division working as a systems engineer on communications satellites and infrastructure systems. In 1991 he took up his current appointment as Lecturer in Space Technology at the University of Bristol. He is particularly keen to keep the balance between the academic and the popularising roles of the Society to ensure they continue to invigorate each other. 

Cyril E S Horsford
Born 13 March 1929. Joined the Society in 1954 and elected to Fellow in 1973. He is Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee.
He was Deputy Assistant Registrar of Criminal Appeals Court of Appeal (1968-1974); Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council (1974-1989). He was a Director of the International Institute of Space Law (1961-1972).
He has experience of legal administration and government business which will benefit the Society in connection with its administration and Bye-Laws.

Doug Millard
Born 27 October 1958. Joined the Society in 1989 and elected to Fellow in 1995.He is Curator of the Space Gallery at the Science Museum. He serves on the BIS History and Programme Committees.
He would like to bring and adapt his experience of working in the Space technical field,  in a national museum, to the Society in order to build on and develop further its successes of its first 68 years.

Keith Wright
Born 29 April 1940. Joined the Society in 1955 and elected to Fellow in 1971. He serves on the BIS Publications Committee. He worked for ESA fromm 1975 to 1994, received the NASA Apollo Achievement Award and the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award. His particular interest is supporting the commercialisation of spaceflight; furthering human exploration and settlement of the solar system; educating young people as to the benefits of spaceflight and increasing the reliability and safety of spaceflight.

Executive Secretary
Suszann Parry
Joined the Society in 1986 to assist in the preparation of the 1987 International Astronautical Congress. She continued as the Production Editor of JBIS and then promoted to Deputy Executive Secretary in 1993 and Executive Secretary in 2002.