“As my five-year term as Chief Scientific Adviser draws to a close, we are delighted that Professor Brooke Rogers will be joining the Home Office as our new Chief Scientific Adviser. Brooke’s exceptional expertise in the behavioural and social science aspects of risks, threats, and extreme events, combined with her extensive experience advising government at the highest levels, will be invaluable in shaping evidence-based policy and innovation. Her leadership coupled with her ability to connect expertise across a wide range of disciplines will strengthen our ability to ensure that science and research underpin the Home Office’s priorities and address the challenges the department faces.”
Professor Jennifer Rubin, current Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser
13 November 2025
Home Office appoints King's academic as most senior scientific leader
Professor Brooke Rogers appointed as the new Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser
Professor Brooke Rogers has been appointed as the new Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).
Professor Rogers is currently Deputy Executive Dean and Vice Dean (People & Planning) in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy (SSPP), and Professor of Behavioural Science and Security in the Department of War Studies (School of Security Studies) at King’s College London.
In this new role, Professor Rogers will provide independent scientific advice to the Home Secretary, Permanent Secretary and wider Home Office. She will work closely with Ministers and officials across the department to ensure that science, technology, research and evidence-based insights underpin policymaking and operational decisions within the Home Office in key policy areas including immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, counter-terrorism and policing.
“I am delighted to be joining the Home Office as Chief Scientific Adviser. This role provides a unique opportunity to inform the future of key policy areas by drawing upon over 25 years of insight from my research, independent scientific advisory roles, and organisational leadership. I am very grateful to King’s for the support I have received during my time here- working in an outward-looking institution with a clear commitment to serving government and society has been hugely beneficial to my work.”
Professor Brooke Rogers
Professor Rogers’ research focuses on public and practitioner perceptions of and responses to risk and threat, and risk communication. Much of her work focusses on low-likelihood, high-impact events such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) accidents or attacks. Other projects explore protecting crowded places; business continuity resilience; pathways into violent radicalisation; insider threat; pandemics; and community resilience.
She has served on government science advisory councils for over two decades, including the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, and the Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC), which she has chaired since 2019.
Professor Rogers will join the Home Office as Chief Scientific Adviser on 1 February 2026.
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Vice Dean (People & Planning) SSPP & Professor of Behavioural Science and Security