| Adrian Bird | Director | 1 Oct 2000 | 30 Sept 2010 | British | 78 years |
| Alan John Brown | Director | 1 May 2012 | 30 Apr 2019 | British | 72 years |
| Alastair Ross Goobey | Director | 1 Jan 2002 | 2 Feb 2008 | British | 80 years |
| Alexander Ian Macgregor | Secretary | 24 Apr 1992 | 13 Dec 1996 | British | - |
| Amelia Chilcott Fawcett | Director | 1 Sept 2019 | 30 Sept 2023 | British | 69 years |
| Andrew Cossar | Secretary | 1 Feb 2012 | 17 Sept 2012 | - | - |
| Anne Mandall Johnson | Director | 1 Jan 2011 | 31 Dec 2018 | British | 71 years |
| Arup Kumar Chakraborty | Director | 1 May 2021 | 30 Jun 2025 | American | 64 years |
| Bryan Grenfell | Director | 1 Sept 2014 | 31 Aug 2021 | United Kingdom | 71 years |
| Christopher Edwards | Director | 1 Apr 1994 | 31 Mar 2005 | British | 83 years |
| Christopher Granville Fairburn | Director | 1 Jan 2008 | 31 Dec 2011 | British | 75 years |
| Damon Marcus Buffini | Director | 1 Sept 2012 | 30 Sept 2018 | British | 63 years |
| David James Scott Cooksey | Director | 1 Jun 1995 | 31 Dec 1999 | British | 85 years |
| David John Weatherall | Director | 24 Apr 1992 | 31 Dec 2000 | British | 92 years |
| Dianne Hayter | Secretary | 13 Dec 1996 | 30 Jul 1999 | British | - |
| Dominic Cadbury | Director | 1 Jun 1999 | 30 Apr 2006 | British | 85 years |
| Edward Ian Walker Arnott | Director | 1 Oct 2000 | 30 Sept 2010 | British | 86 years |
| Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-buller | Director | 1 Aug 2008 | 11 Apr 2021 | British | 77 years |
| Hans Leo Kornberg | Director | 24 Apr 1992 | 14 Jan 1994 | British | 97 years |
| James Julian Bennett Jack | Director | 24 Apr 1992 | 31 Mar 2004 | New Zealand | 89 years |
| Jean Olwen Thomas | Director | 1 Oct 2000 | 30 Sept 2007 | British | 83 years |
| John Bertrand Gurdon | Director | 16 Jan 1995 | 30 Sept 2000 | British | 92 years |
| John Gillespie Stewart | Secretary | 30 Jul 1999 | 31 Jan 2012 | Usa | - |
| Kay Elizabeth Davies | Director | 1 Jan 2008 | 31 Dec 2017 | British | 74 years |
| Leszek Borysiewicz | Director | 1 Jan 2006 | 30 Sept 2007 | British | 74 years |
| Mark Jeremy Walport | Director | 1 Oct 2000 | 24 Jan 2003 | British | 72 years |
| Martin Bobrow | Director | 1 Oct 1996 | 31 Mar 2007 | British | 87 years |
| Michael Anthony John Ferguson | Director | 1 Jan 2012 | 31 Dec 2021 | British | 68 years |
| Michael Llewellyn Rutter | Director | 1 Oct 1996 | 31 Mar 2004 | British | 92 years |
| Naguib Kheraj | Director | 1 Jan 2019 | 27 Mar 2019 | British | 61 years |
| Patricia Anne Hodgson | Director | 1 Jun 2004 | 31 May 2008 | British | 78 years |
| Peter George Smith | Director | 1 Jun 2004 | 31 May 2014 | British | 83 years |
| Peter Graham Davies | Director | 1 Sept 2009 | 31 Dec 2011 | British | 53 years |
| Peter Grenville Cazalet | Director | 24 Apr 1992 | 26 Feb 1996 | British | 96 years |
| Peter William Jack Rigby | Director | 1 Jan 2008 | 30 Jun 2016 | British | 78 years |
| Richard O Hynes | Director | 1 Jan 2007 | 31 Dec 2016 | Us/uk Dual Citizen | 81 years |
| Roderick David Kent | Director | 1 Feb 2008 | 31 Jan 2012 | British | 78 years |
| Roger Geoffrey Gibbs | Director | 24 Apr 1992 | 31 Dec 1999 | British | 91 years |
| Ronald Plasterk | Director | 1 Apr 2004 | 15 Feb 2007 | Dutch | 68 years |
| Roy Malcolm Anderson | Director | 24 Apr 1992 | 9 May 2000 | British | 78 years |
| Susan Jean Wallcraft | Secretary | 17 Sept 2012 | 29 Apr 2016 | - | - |
| Tobias Bonhoeffer | Director | 1 Sept 2014 | 31 Aug 2021 | German | 65 years |
| William Burns | Director | 1 Apr 2016 | 30 Apr 2020 | British | 78 years |
| William Martin Castell | Director | 1 Jan 2006 | 30 Sept 2015 | British | 78 years |
| William Stanley Peart | Director | 24 Apr 1992 | 31 Mar 1994 | British | 103 years |