Graham Turnock
{{Short description|British physicist}}
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Graham Turnock is a British physicist who served as the chief executive officer of the UK Space Agency from March 2017 to September 2021.{{Cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/uk-stands-ready-to-play-full-part-in-european-space-agency-38731874.html|title=UK 'stands ready to play full part in European Space Agency'|newspaper=Belfasttelegraph.co.uk |via=www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk}}
Career
Turnock holds a PhD in Particle Physics from Cambridge University for his work at European Organization for Nuclear Research.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/event/inaugural-space-panel-generating-impact-within-general-public|title=The Inaugural Space Panel: Generating Impact within the General Public | University of Oxford|website=www.ox.ac.uk}} For 15 years, he worked in HM Treasury, notably as leader of the Transport Spending Team.{{Cite web|url=https://connect.farnboroughairshow.com/Speakers|title=FIA Connect 2020 | Farnborough|website=FIA Connect 2020 | Farnborough}} Before joining the UK Space Agency as chief executive officer, Turnock served as Director of Better Regulation in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.{{Cite web | url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/725915/AnnualReport17-18.pdf | title=Annual Report and Accounts 2017-18 | access-date=2024-07-14 | publisher=UK Space Agency}}
Turnock served as the chief executive officer of the UK Space Agency from March 2017{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/graham-turnock|title=Dr Graham Turnock|website=GOV.UK}} to September 2021. During this time, he attempted to gain closer relationships with the Australian Space Agency via Sabre, a synergetic air-breathing rocket engine under development by British company Reaction Engines.{{Cite web|url=https://www.naratek.com/en/creative-perspective/2019/space-agency-aiming-for-supersonic-aircraft.php|title=United Kingdom Space Agency aiming for supersonic aircraft from 2030|website=www.naratek.com}}
During Brexit negotiations, he warned that if the United Kingdom was expelled from the Galileo program, it would set it back by years and cost the European Union billions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iexpats.com/eu-cold-shoulders-the-uk-over-brexit/|title=EU Cold Shoulders The UK Over Brexit|date=April 26, 2018|website=iExpats}}
Cycling career
Graham Turnock has won the Grace Blackman Cup in 2017
Personal life
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