Editing Royal Institution (section)

===Past directors===
{{Main|Directors of the Royal Institution}}

The leadership of the Royal Institution has had various titles:
* Director of the Laboratory
* Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory
* Director

The position was abolished in 2010, with the firing of [[Susan Greenfield]].<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6968961/Baroness-Greenfields-redundancy-only-way-to-get-rid-of-her.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100113194432/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6968961/Baroness-Greenfields-redundancy-only-way-to-get-rid-of-her.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 13 January 2010 |title=Baroness Greenfield's redundancy 'only way to get rid of her' |work=The Daily Telegraph |location= London |author1=Gammell, Caroline |author2= Alleyne, Richard |date=12 January 2010 |access-date=28 April 2014}}</ref>

The position was restored in April 2017 with the appointment of [[Sarah Harper]], Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rigb.org/about/news/spring-2017/director-announcement|title=Ri Trustees appoint Professor Sarah Harper as Director}}</ref> Harper resigned in September 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rigb.org/about/news/autumn-2017/the-royal-institution-confirms-the-departure-of-it|title=The Royal Institution (Ri) confirms the departure of its Director, Professor Sarah Harper}}</ref>

The present director is [[Katherine Mathieson]].