About the author
Hetan was appointed to the NAO Board by the Public Accounts Commission on 25 January 2024 for an initial three-year term. He is a member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee.
Hetan is Chief Executive of the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences, and has previously served as Chief Executive at the Royal Statistical Society. Hetan also has extensive experience in non-executive roles and is currently Chair of the Board at Our World in Data. He is a visiting professor at the Policy Institute, Kings College London and a Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Hetan has extensive board-level experience including having served as Chair of the Friends Provident Foundation and Vice Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute.