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Professor Nora Colton is the Director of the UCL Global Business School of Health. She is a health and development economist with extensive experience in change management and strategy. Previous to this role she was the UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (Postgraduate Education) and Joint Director of Education at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
She has been a Professor of International Economics at Drew University, USA; Dean of Business and Deputy Vice Chancellor at University of East London (UEL), UK; and a visiting professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Electronic Science and Technology (UESTC), Chengdu, China as well as the American University in Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. She holds a doctorate from University of Oxford, UK.
She also has studied and taught at a number of leading universities including Harvard University; W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University; American University in Cairo; American University in Beirut and Barcelona Business School at University Pompeu Fabra, Spain. She also holds a certificate in Change Management from Cornell University in the USA.
She has been the recipient of a serial Fulbright and a Carnegie Foundation grant to conduct fieldwork in the Middle East.
She is the author of numerous journal articles concerned with Middle Eastern economics and politics. She is also co-author of a book with Elsevier Press entitled Middle East Finance: Missed-opportunities or Future Prospects and has a book forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan on the political economy of Yemen. She has also been a series editor of a book series on Middle East Economics through Palgrave-Macmillan. More recently, she conducts research and publishes on healthcare management and strategic leadership.
She has a particular interest in change management as it relates to the healthcare sector and has designed programmes and taught on healthcare management postgraduate degree programmes as well as health related executive education and training programmes.
- Senior Management Team
Prof Nora Colton Director
n.colton@ucl.ac.uk Ariana Guzzo Executive Assistant to Managing Director and Departmental Administrator a.guzzo@ucl.ac.uk Dr Radi Haloub Deputy Director of Education, Programme Lead for MSc Biotech and Pharmaceutical Management and Associate Professor (Teaching) r.haloub@ucl.ac.uk Prof Simcha Jong Deputy Director of Research, Professor and Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) Health s.jong@ucl.ac.uk Cristina Lai School Manager cristina.lai@ucl.ac.uk Dr Waty Lilaonitkul Deputy Director of Alumni, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Health Technologies watjana.lilaonitkul.16@ucl.ac.uk Clare Metcalfe Education Manager c.metcalfe@ucl.ac.uk Dr Marzena Nieroda Deputy Director Partnerships and Enterprise, Lecturer in Marketing and Commercialisation in Healthcare m.nieroda@ucl.ac.uk Shing-Wai Wong Executive Education Director shing-wai.wong@ucl.ac.uk - Core Academic Staff
Dr Hend Abdelhakim Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing and Commercialisation for Healthcare hend.abdelhakim@ucl.ac.uk Sergio Alonso-Fernández Lecturer (Teaching) in Health Economics sergi.alonso@ucl.ac.uk Professor Aneta Tunariu Professor (Teaching) in coaching and Behaviour change a.tunariu@ucl.ac.uk Dr Clara Aranda Jan Associate Professor (Teaching) in Digital Health & Entrepreneurship clara.aranda@ucl.ac.uk Dr Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun Associate Professor (Teaching) in Organisational Behaviour y.bolade-ogunfodun@ucl.ac.uk Mark Britnell Professor (Teaching) m.britnell@ucl.ac.uk Dr Rodolfo Catena Lecturer in Operations and Supply Management r.catena@ucl.ac.uk Jeongwon Choi Research Fellow jeongwon.choi@ucl.ac.uk Professor Nora Colton Professor of Leadership and Management for Healthcare and Director of Global Business School for Health n.colton@ucl.ac.uk Dr Simon Combes Lecturer in Health Economics simon.combes@ucl.ac.uk Elizabeth Fons Lecturer (Teaching) in Analytics e.fons@ucl.ac.uk Dr Paul Expert Lecturer in Health Informatics and Graduate Tutor (Research) p.expert@ucl.ac.uk Dr Susanne Gaube Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Health Technologies susanne.gaube@ucl.ac.uk Dr Luka Gebel Lecturer (Assistant Professor, Research) in Strategy & Entrepreneurship l.gebel@ucl.ac.uk Dr Oksana Gerwe Director MBA Health oksana.gerwe@ucl.ac.uk Dr Radi Haloub Deputy Director of Education, Programme Lead for MSc Biotech and Pharmaceutical Management and Associate Professor (Teaching) r.haloub@ucl.ac.uk Dr Kate Honeyford Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Health Informatics k.honeyford@ucl.ac.uk Dr Jenny Zhenyi Huang Lecturer in Finance and Accounting and Lead International Partnerships, Asia jenny.z.huang@ucl.ac.uk Dr Radhika Jain Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Health Economics radhika.jain@ucl.ac.uk Preethi John Associate Professor (Teaching) and Deputy Director MBA (Human Resource Management and Coaching) preethi.john@ucl.ac.uk Simcha Jong Deputy Director of Research, Professor and Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) Health s.jong@ucl.ac.uk Dr Rama Kanungo Associate Professor (Reader) in Finance and Accounting r.kanungo@ucl.ac.uk Pratap Kumar Associate Professor in Digital Health Policy pratap.kumar@ucl.ac.uk Joan Langley Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Healthcare Management joan.langley@ucl.ac.uk Waty Lilaonitkul Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Health Technologies Dr Marzena Nieroda Deputy Director Partnerships and Enterprise, Assistant Professor in Marketing and Commercialisation in Healthcare m.nieroda@ucl.ac.uk Dr Rakesh Parashar Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Health Systems and Policy r.parashar@ucl.ac.uk Dr Anna-Lena Ruland Research Fellow a.ruland@ucl.ac.uk Kabir Sheikh Professor of Global Health Systems and Policy kabir.sheikh@ucl.ac.uk Meike Schleiff Associate Professor in Health Systems & Policy m.schleiff@ucl.ac.uk Dr Sonila Tomini Associate Professor of Health Economics, Chair of the Student Partnership Committee s.tomini@ucl.ac.uk Professor Sotiris Vandoros Professor of Health Economics and Director of Executive MBA Health s.vandoros@ucl.ac.uk Shehla Zaidi Associate Professor and Programme Lead for Global Healthcare Management shehla.zaidi@ucl.ac.uk Dr Paola Zappa Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management p.zappa@ucl.ac.uk Dr Ruijia Zhan Lecturer in Finance and Accounting r.zhan@ucl.ac.uk Dr Yuxi Zhang Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Health Policy and Systems yuxi.zhang@ucl.ac.uk - Honorary Professors
Professor Shafi Ahmed Honorary Professor of Practice shafi.ahmed@ucl.ac.uk Mohamed El Ansari Ali Honorary Research Fellow Professor Amanda Cole Honorary Professor of Practice Jean Gomes Honorary Professor of Practice Dr Kamal Gulati Honorary Lecturer kamal.gulati@ucl.ac.uk Lawrence Hamilton Honorary Professor of Practice Professor The Hon Gregory Hunt Honorary Professor of Practice greg.hunt@greghunt.com.au Professor Timothy Irish Honorary Professor tim.irish.10@ucl.ac.uk Chindu Kabir Honorary Lecturer Dr Ned Naylor Honorary Lecturer ned.naylor@ucl.ac.uk Dr Afolabi Ogunlesi MB BS DPhil MRCP (UK) Honorary Visiting Professor f.ogunlesi@ucl.ac.uk Chris Outram Honorary Visiting Professor c.outram@ucl.ac.uk Elliott Roy-Highley Honorary Lecturer Dr Joel Schamroth Honorary Lecturer j.schamroth@ucl.ac.uk Eduardo Marcello Viegas Honorary Research Fellow Mitchell Wolfe Honorary Professor of Practice - Professional Services
Juned Ali Finance and Research Manager gbsh.finance@ucl.ac.uk Edna Asamoah Accreditation Manager gbsh.accreditation@ucl.ac.uk Leila Blackford MSc Programme Co-ordinator l.blackford@ucl.ac.uk Oliver Borgstein MSc Programme Co-ordinator o.borgstein@ucl.ac.uk Rachel Breen Executive Education Manager rachel.breen@ucl.ac.uk Heather Badru HR Officer hr.gbsh@ucl.ac.uk Nicola Cockerton MBA Programme Manager nicola.cockerton@ucl.ac.uk Ian Eames Education Administrator ian.eames@ucl.ac.uk Ariana Guzzo Executive Assistant to Director & Administrator a.guzzo@ucl.ac.uk Jack Hardisty Student Projects Coordinator j.hardisty@ucl.ac.uk Cristina Lai GBSH School Manager cristina.lai@ucl.ac.uk Clare Metcalfe Education Manager c.metcalfe@ucl.ac.uk Alisha Mistry Executive Education Administrator alisha.mistry@ucl.ac.uk Sunny Sagoo Student Experience Officer sunny.sagoo@ucl.ac.uk Blessing Simeon Marketing Officer gbshmarcomms@ucl.ac.uk Lauren White Marketing and Events Coordinator gbshmarcomms@ucl.ac.uk Shing-Wai Wong Director of Executive Education shing-wai.wong@ucl.ac.uk Christine Wright Education Administrator christine.wright@ucl.ac.uk Sharleen Young Education Coordinator (Research) sharleen.young@ucl.ac.uk Law Amankwah Student Recruitment and Outreach Officer l.amankwah@ucl.ac.uk
External Board
- Ruth Kennedy - Chair, UCL GBSH External Board; Director, Kennedy Dundas Ltd
Ruth Kennedy is a brand consultant advising clients in the luxury goods and services sectors to meet their business development objectives. From 2006 to 2009 she served as head of Quinlan Private UK, a real estate and private equity group managing commercial and residential properties in Europe including luxury hotels. Before that position, Ruth was 16 years with David Linley and Co., the bespoke furniture and design business.
She began her career at S.G. Warburg as an investment banker. Ruth is a non-executive director on the boards of Daylesford Organic, Bamford, Value Retail (the owners of Bicester Village), and until 2019 on the public board of Belmond Hotels. Ruth has been awarded Honorary Fellowships at both UCL and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. In 2009, Ms. Kennedy founded the Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital and is a Patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
- Ann Cole - Head of Government Affairs and Market Access UK, Baxter Healthcare Ltd
Ann is a senior healthcare leader with over 30 years’ experience in the Pharmaceutical and MedTech Industry. She started her pharmaceutical career with Merck, Sharp and Dohme Limited and has held numerous commercial and partnership roles with responsibility for a range of product portfolios. Ann currently leads Baxter Healthcare’s Government Affairs and Market Access agenda, where she is tasked with managing key policies impacting the HealthTech sector and the NHS, supporting change that enables the adoption and spread of innovations that deliver whole-system value across healthcare settings. She has a strong history of developing partnerships and driving transformation across multiple settings. She is passionate about bringing real change to health with broad experience in establishing trusted relationships to develop meaningful solutions.
- Simon Hammett - Retired Senior Partner, Deloitte (Healthcare and Life Sciences practice in Europe); UCL Alumni
Simon Hammett has spent most of his career in professional services. After completing a Master of Business Administration in 1993 he joined Deloitte LLP where he provided commercial strategy consulting and M&A services within the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical technology sectors.
He was appointed Partner in 1999 and led the Firm’s Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry practice through a period of significant growth across Europe, Middle East and Africa. In the latter part of his career, Simon was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Firm’s Strategy Consulting practice in the region, and had the privilege to operate at Board level with some of Deloitte’s most prestigious international clients.
Simon “retired” from Deloitte in 2016 and went on to complete a Master of Science in Business Psychology at UCL. He has continued to contribute to the health sector as a Charity Trustee at Prostate Cancer UK and Amref Africa UK and joined the External Board of UCL’s Global Business School for Health in 2021. Simon now operates as an independent Board Advisor, Chair and leadership mentor.
- Prof Graham Hart - Co-Director, UCL Health of the Public
Professor Graham Hart was the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Science. He is now the Co-Director of UCL Health of the Public.
Graham is a Professor of Sexual Health & HIV Research and his research interests include sexual risk behaviour and the prevention of HIV and STIs, combining structural, behavioural and biomedical approaches to prevention and the opportunities afforded by new prevention technologies. He has worked with a wide range of populations at risk of HIV and STIs, nationally and internationally.
- Dr Jitinder Saini - Senior Vice President and Head of Medical Affairs, EMEA; UCL Alumni
Dr Jit Saini is Senior Vice President and Head of Medical Affairs for EMEA, a role he has held since 2017. Jit initiated, led and ran the Medical 2020 program that started in 2017, which culminated in the transformation of the Medical Affairs function at Merck.
Prior to this role, he acted as the Global Chief of Staff and Head of the Strategy Realisation Office within Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany, where he was a member of the Healthcare Executive Committee.
Jit studied medicine and achieved his postgraduate qualifications from London teaching hospitals, including The Royal Free, Kings College and University College London. Prior to entering the pharmaceutical industry where he worked with companies such as Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Jit specialized in hepatology and gastroenterology. "
- Hari Kumar - Retired Pharmaceutical Executive; UCL Alumni
Hari Kumar is a pharmaceutical executive with over 35 years of experience in the industry.
He started his pharmaceutical career at Roche in the UK and Switzerland, before joining Amira Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, USA. He led the acquisition of Amira by Bristol Myers Squibb in 2011. He then became Chief Executive Officer of Adheron Therapeutics until the successful acquisition of the company. Since then, Hari has been actively involved in helping Biotech start-ups either as an independent Board member or as consultant.
Having trained as an immunologist at University College London where he completed his PhD under the supervision of the late Prof N A Mitchison, Hari completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston and another fellowship at the Marie Curie Cancer Research Centre in UK.
- Chris Outram - Chairman Emeritus, OC&C; UCL GBSH Board Advisor
Chris Outram is a strategy consultant with a career spanning over five decades. He co-founded OC&C Strategy Consultants in 1987, a leading global firm, and served as its Chairman Emeritus. He has held leadership roles at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Van Gelder Papier, and the Boston Consulting Group. Outram's educational background includes a Double First-Class degree from Birmingham University and an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD. He has also chaired various organisations and is involved in advisory roles, including the UCL Global Business School for Health
- Dr David Walcott - Managing Director and Founder, Novamed
David is an accomplished medical doctor, entrepreneur, and global board member with extensive experience in healthcare innovation and strategic growth in emerging markets. He has advised multiple global businesses over the past five years, leveraging his expertise in corporate governance and market-entry strategies. David’s work spans across the US, UK, and four continents, where he has led complex initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, strategic turnarounds, IPOs, and the introduction of new healthcare technologies.
As the founder of Novamed, the leading healthcare investment firm in the Caribbean, David has driven significant advancements in the region, including the development of Jamaica’s largest smart city business campus. Under his leadership, Novamed’s portfolio has expanded to include hospitals, clinics, and a venture arm that launched the Caribbean’s first healthcare accelerator and innovation lab in collaboration with the IDB and Rock Health.
David’s global influence is further evidenced by his role as a founding partner of the Visionaries Summit, where he helped create an investment platform that has seeded over $300 million across various sectors in the Caribbean. His leadership was recognized in 2021 when he was honored as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Global Future Council member. David’s academic background includes a Rhodes Scholarship and advanced degrees from Oxford, INSEAD, and executive education from Harvard, Wharton, and NTU. His work has been featured in prestigious publications such as Forbes, Financial Times, and The Economist.
- Soroosh Shambayati - Director, Time Boost Capital
Soroosh Shambayati was born in Tehran, Iran and was educated in Sweden and United States. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Chemistry from Occidental College, Masters of Science and Philosophy degrees from Yale University and a PhD from Harvard University. His PhD work, under the supervision of Professor Stuart Schreiber, covered the total synthesis of Epoxydictymene, design of Targeted Inhibitors for the HLA-B27 and the structural properties of Silyl Ethers.
Dr. Shambayati’s career in finance commenced at Bankers Trust in New York. He then moved to Goldman Sachs as a member of the Fixed Income Arbitrage Group focusing on Emerging Markets. More recently, he was Global Chairman of Emerging Markets at Nomura International and Global co-Head of Sales and Trading at Renaissance Capital in Moscow.
As a shareholder and partner of LJ Partnership (now Alvarium Investments), Dr. Shambayati helped grow the wealth management business by structuring and negotiating various mergers and acquisition deals, most notably with Guggenheim Investment Advisors. He continues to advise a select group of families on their investments.
In 2019 he co-founded AIBEAM Labs, a research firm exploring a combination of behavioural science and machine learning tools in construction of investment portfolios. He currently divides his time between Singapore, Geneva and London.
- Dr Emad Al Thukair - Global CEO, InterHealth Canada Ltd.
Dr. Emad Al Thukair is the Global CEO of InterHealth Canada Ltd. and Chairman of the Saudi British Joint Council, bringing over 35 years of international healthcare and business expertise to these roles. A Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (London), he began his career as a medical practitioner before expanding into healthcare management and entrepreneurship. Dr. Al Thukair founded the El Dukair Medical Center in Riyadh in 1984 and has, through his partnership in InterHealth Canada Limited, become a leading figure in developing Public-Private Partnership (PPP) solutions for healthcare delivery globally. His expertise in integrating financing, infrastructure development, and clinical services has proven invaluable in his current leadership positions. Throughout his career, he has held advisory positions with various prestigious organizations, including the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council in the UK, and is currently a board member of UCL Global Healthcare Business College and the Qatar University Healthcare Advisory Board. Dr. Al Thukair's unique combination of clinical background, business acumen, and international experience positions him as a distinguished leader in global healthcare management and development.
Health Executives in Residence
Being leaders in their respective fields and industries, our Health Executives in Residence are not only here to help you reimagine healthcare for the future but are also here to ensure you graduate from the Global Business School for Health with experiences that mirror the real work of health. We believe that the interactions you have with our Health Executives in Residence will challenge and shape your aspirations and career paths.
- Michael Allen - Partner and Head of Health & Human Services, KPMG
Michael is the Global Lead for Health and Care Workforce Solutions at KPMG, overseeing initiatives in 38 countries to address workforce shortages.
He leads KPMG's Health and Human Services Consulting Team in the UK and has worked on major projects, including workforce models for the NHS Nightingale hospitals during COVID-19 and the System Workforce Improvement Model, which informed the NHS People Plan. Michael advises the Department of Health & Social Care on workforce reform and helped establish the Centre for Workforce Development in Bradford and the Leeds Health & Care Academy. He has 11 years of NHS experience, including roles as Head of Primary Care and NHS LIFT Director for Leeds. Michael is also a visiting lecturer at UCL and a Non-Executive Director at Age UK (Leeds).
- Silvia Cerolini - Head of Innovation Specialty Care, Sanofi
Silvia is an experienced leader with 18+ years operational and strategic experience in the Pharma and Consumer Goods industries with focus on innovation, data and analytics.
She is currently Head of Transformation at Sanofi UK and Ireland where she leads a strategic initiatives in Data, AI and Digital Transformation.
Silvia is also a successful social entrepreneur. Since her daughter was diagnosed with an ultra rare eye disease leading to blindness, Silvia has been actively advocating for advancing treatments for inherited retinal dystrophies. She funded Eyes on the Future, a UK based charity, aiming to accelerate research for her daughter's disease. She leads the global patient organization catalyzing collaboration between academia, industry and patients. Her work led to several publications and, most importantly, concrete progress towards potential treatments. Her efforts have been featured in national and international press including BBC, Vanity Fair, London Evening Standard and Forbes.
Silvia is extremely passionate about the role of innovation and data in transforming health care especially for patients with rare diseases. She is very excited about engaging with the next generation leaders at UCL Global Business School about the impact that business skills can make in health care and life science.
- Thian Chew - Chairman and CEO, Invion Group
Mr Thian Chew is Chair & CEO of Invion Limited (ASX: IVX), an Australian clinical-stage life sciences firm transforming Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) into a novel and effective treatment for cancers and infectious diseases. He is also Co-Founder of Chronic Airway Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech firm focused on treating respiratory diseases. Mr Chew is also Advisory Board Member at Stanford Medicine’s Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE).
Previously, Mr Chew was Managing Partner at Polar Ventures, an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs responsible for the firm’s proprietary investments, at Morgan Stanley’s Strategic Services Group and spent a decade with KPMG across Asia Pacific including leading business transformation and post-merger integration programs.
He is Adjunct Assoc Professor at Hong Kong Uni. of Science & Tech (Business, Life Sciences) and Visiting Professor at UCL Global Business School for Health. Mr Chew holds an MBA from the Wharton School (Palmer Scholar) / MA (Lauder Institute), University of Pennsylvania.
- Omar Din - CEO and Executive Partner, Bourne Health; Executive Chairman & Founder, 31 G
Omar is a seasoned healthcare executive and health-tech innovator with over 20 years of leadership experience spanning the UK, Middle East and South Asia. As Founder & Executive Chairman of 31G, Omar leads a health-tech venture delivering transformative digital solutions globally. He is also CEO and Executive Partner at Bourne Health, a London-based at-scale Primary Care organisation, where he continues to provide high-quality care delivery, M&A and strategic turnaround. In 2021, Omar played a pivotal role in the largest exit in UK Primary Care history, overseeing the integration of AT Medics into Centene Corp and driving operational transformation and improved EBITDA across Centene’s UK healthcare businesses.
With an MSc in Digital Health Leadership from Imperial College London and Harvard Medical School, as well as an MBA from the University of Surrey, Omar has spearheaded groundbreaking digital initiatives in healthcare. His projects include a UK leading virtual consultation platform, a nationally scaled Learning Management System, and an award-winning population health analytics platform. His special interest in research and life sciences has driven him to forge impactful commercial partnerships with the NIHR, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, CoreEvitas, the University of Oxford and others to enhance patient outcomes and care delivery.
In addition to his role at UCL, Omar serves as a Board Advisor to Nahdi Medical Company in Saudi Arabia and a strategic advisor for numerous health-tech and biotech ventures. He also supports UKDRI's Dementia Trials Accelerator, contributing to cutting-edge global dementia research. Omar’s work continues to shape the future of healthcare innovation and strategic leadership globally.
- Dr. Sheikh Mateen Ellahi - GP Partner, Elm Tree Medical Centre
Dr. Sheikh Mateen Ellahi is a GP Partner at Elmtree Medical Centre, one of the UK’s highest-rated practices. He leads patient care and drives operational improvements, specializing in clinical governance and transforming practices to CQC compliance. As a GP and Advanced Clinical Practitioner Trainer, he mentors future healthcare professionals and heads Primary Care Network teaching initiatives. Dr. Ellahi also serves as a Private GP, focusing on personalized care, and is an Honorary Lecturer at UCL, where he brings primary care leadership insights to the MBA in Global Health program.
- Dr. Nabeel Goheer - Chief, PATH
Nabeel Goheer is a seasoned leader with more than 25 years of professional experience in systemic transformation, symbiotic partnerships, and interoperable development. Presently, he is working as the Chief/Vice President of PATH, an American non-profit specializing in biotech and global public health. He is based at London and in charge of Asia, Middle East, and European operations.
Before this role, he provided leadership at the Commonwealth, an intergovernmental association of 56 countries representing 2.6 billion people, and supervised strategy, governance, technology, innovation, and digitalization departments as an Assistant Secretary-General. Earlier, he worked with the United Nations system, the World Bank, USAID, and the Government of Pakistan. Nabeel holds a PhD from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
He is serving on the Boards of Royal Overseas League, International School of Government at Kings College London, Middlesex University and Foundation of Appropriate Technologies in Health of Switzerland. He is a member of MIT Equitable Health Systems Challenge Leadership Group, runs a leadership program at the UN System Staff College and serves as a Health Executive in Residence at the UCL Global Business School for Health. Additionally, Nabeel is actively engaged in global governance discussions, participating in the World Economic Forum’s working group on AI governance.
- Toby Goldblatt - CEO and Co-Founder, Let's Renew
Toby Goldblatt is a serial founder and corporate tech executive with specialisms in AI and Health & Life Sciences. He has built leading global organisations such as Accenture / Avanade; Eviden; CACI working with clients including NHS Digital, Blood & Transplant; World Health Organisation; Governments in Spain; Norway; UAE and India plus a range of Life Science & Digital Health companies.
In 2021 he founded and then subsequently sold Pivot Digital Health a groundbreaking digital technology, AI and advisory service provider. Today he runs Renew, focused on scaling up companies in the Digital Health, Tech industries in collaboration with Private Equity and Academia. In the past he has supported and mentored UCL GBSH alumni in experiencing what life as a founder is like. He has not for profit programs running around undiagnosed patients (Project Equal); Ethical AI (Project Human) and has specialisms in Synthetic data and Agentic solutions for Healthcare.
- Dr. Joanne Hackett - Vice President Health System Services, IQVIA
Joanne M. Hackett is Vice President and Head of Health System Services at IQVIA and previously was the Chief Commercial Officer at Genomics England.
Dr Hackett is a clinical academic, entrepreneur, investor, and a strategic, creative visionair with global experience spanning successful start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Aside from her curious passion for life and positivity, Joanne is known for building innovation, driving personalised medicine and leading through fast paced, complex changing ecosystems and integrations. Joanne's goal is to contribute to bringing the world novel, cost effective and simple health care solutions, and she is particularly keen on building the case for prevention, open science and citizen genomics. She has extensive global experience across academic, business and clinical institutions, and enjoys sharing her experiences with the Boards she sits on as well as companies she provides strategic advice to.
Joanne has been publicly recognised for her relentless pursuit of revolutionising healthcare and has been named one of the top six Influential Leaders in Healthcare by CIO Look, the Accenture Life Science Leader of the year, Freshfields Top 100 Most Influential Women, One HealthTech Top 70 Women in the NHS, Pharmaceutical Market Europe’s 30 women leaders in UK healthcare and BioBeat Top 50 Women in Biotech Award. Joanne believes in human courage and perseverance against the odds, and demonstrates that positive change, whether in a company or in one’s personal life, can be carved out from even the greatest of trials. As a believer of ‘health = wealth’, Joanne is an internationally known yoga instructor.
- Andreas Haimböck-Tichy - Managing Director, Healthcare Accenture UK
Andreas is currently Managing Director, Healthcare UK at Accenture with a mission to help the NHS and health and care Industry reinvent how care is delivered - enabled by Automation, Data, AI and other digital technologies.
Examples of his work include engagements with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and NHS B&T to improve patient and donor experience. To Improve health outcomes more broadly Andreas is currently collaborating with health systems across Leeds and London to deploy Data and AI/LLM capabilities to understand early signs of disease and take preventative measures, including Digital Therapeutics.
Andreas is a Non-Executive Director in the NHS, Health Executive in Residence with UCL, Member of the Advisory Board for the ShuriNetwork and previous Chair of the Health and Social Care (HSC) Council, dechunk.
- Dr. Linda Harris - Chief Executive, Spectrum Community Health CIC
Dr. Linda Harris OBE FRCGP (GMC 3342112) is the Founding Chief Executive of Spectrum Community Health CIC, which provides healthcare for vulnerable populations, including primary care, substance misuse, and sexual health services across North England in community and secure environments. A former GP and Clinical Director for Integrated Substance Misuse in Wakefield, Linda has a special interest in substance misuse, having founded Spectrum in 2011. She is also the Executive Chair of SLD Training, which offers RCGP-accredited programs in substance misuse management.
Dr. Harris has held leadership roles in NHS England's Health and Justice Clinical Reference Group and is a trustee of Spectrum People charity. She received an OBE in 2021 for her services to the NHS.
- Dr. Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos - Senior Independent Adviser, Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation
Dr. Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos is the Chief Executive of the Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation, with over 30 years of experience in AI and personalised medicine. A trusted advisor to organizations like the WHO and World Bank, he promotes digital health governance and innovation ecosystems. He leads global initiatives, including the IEEE P3493.1 Standard for secure healthcare data recycling. His work spans policy, AI ethics, and digital health transformation, and he is a sought-after speaker on healthcare innovation worldwide.
- Don McDaniel - CEO, Canton & Company
Don McDaniel is a healthcare leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience, specializing in innovation and disruption across the healthcare sector. He has founded and led several healthcare companies, including Canton & Company and Sage Growth Partners, and held executive roles in hospitals, health services, and insurance. Don advises and invests in disruptive healthcare firms, helping them succeed in the evolving health economy.
A sought-after speaker and thought leader, he has delivered keynote addresses at major industry events and taught health economics at prestigious universities, including Johns Hopkins. He is also the inaugural Health Executive in Residence at UCL Global School for Health. Don is passionate about reshaping healthcare through market-driven innovation.
- Ben Osborn - President, International Commercial Office, Pfizer
After graduating from Leeds University, Ben joined Pfizer in 1998, where his career has taken him through a variety of leadership roles both in the UK and internationally.
Ben is the President, International Commercial Office at Pfizer Inc where he is responsible for the commercial and marketing organisations across the 140 countries that Pfizer operate in outside of the US. He is passionate about organisational culture and purpose to ensure patients benefit from breakthrough innovation and science. Ben was the UK Country Manager and Managing Director for Pfizer UK from 2019 - 2022, leading the organisation through unprecedented times of opportunity to bring science, data, and technology together to transform healthcare. He led the UK roll out of Pfizer’s work to overcome Covid, working closely with government and the NHS during an unprecedented period of our times.
From May 2021 to May 2022, Ben was President of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, Ben has also represented the life science industry on a number of committees with government and NHS. He is also an advisory board member for the EU HBA organisation.
- Dr Jing Ouyang - CGO and Co-Founder, Patchwork Health
Dr Jing Ouyang is a doctor, health tech executive, board advisor and published academic with a passion for healthcare innovation and technology. He co-founded Patchwork Health, a pioneer in flexible workforce management solutions in healthcare that works with over 100 NHS Trusts. He co-hosts the Out of Programme podcast, which explore the personal journeys of clinicians who take unconventional career paths. In addition, he is a healthcare startup mentor for Baltic Ventures and the NHSE Clinician Entrepreneur Programme.
- Minesh Parbat - Chief Pharmacist, NHS
Minesh Parbat, FRPharmS MPharm(Hons), ClinDip, IPresc, MSc has worked in senior leadership positions within the NHS and has led on medicines optimisation projects both strategically and operationally. He is currently ICS Chief Pharmacist, NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB and has a keen interest in organisational development and collaborative working.
Minesh practiced as an independent prescribing pharmacist in long term conditions clinics and structured medication reviews in GP Practice for over 10 years. Minesh has supported various academic institutions as a visiting lecturer to engage students in research projects and audit initiatives. He has served on a numbers of national and local pharmacy related committees to support the progression of the pharmacy profession and has a keen interest in leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion across various healthcare professions.
- Lloyd Price - Founder and Partner, Nelson Advisors
Lloyd is a HealthTech Founder, Consumer Internet Executive, Portfolio Non-Executive Director and M&A Advisor with 25 years of experience founding and funding, scaling and exiting businesses.
He co-founded Zesty in June 2012, building the company through multiple investment rounds from leading European & US Venture Capital funds into an award-winning UK Digital Health company and sale to Induction Healthcare Group PLC in May 2020. (FTSE AIM: INHC)
Lloyd was a founding member of the Digital Healthcare Council in 2017 and Board Member for the Coalition for a Digital Economy conducting two trade delegation visits to the European Parliament in 2015 and 2016.
He is a Non-Executive Director for a Portfolio of leading UK Digital Health companies, ranging from Digital MSK to urgent care workforce management to NHS spinouts pioneering healthcare innovation across the UK and Asynchronous TeleHealth.
Lloyd has worked with Cambridge Judge Business School judging MBA students Digital Health projects and regularly mentors students from both the Oxford University Venture Capital Network and Oxford MedTech Society.He founded Nelson Advisors in 2021 focused on Healthcare Technology Merger & Acquisitions, Growth & Strategy projects. Nelson Advisors work with founders, owners, boards & investors to assess whether they should 'Build, Buy, Partner or Sell' in order to maximise shareholder value.
- Tiba Rao - Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder, Soar Beyond Ltd.
Tiba’s background in sales and training with Eli Lilly and change management consultancy with Accenture has helped shape the services and solutions that Soar Beyond innovates to overcome resistance to change and transformation in the health system, particularly related to medicines. Soar Beyond is now an established digital health provider consultancy with an extensive client base of both NHS and pharmaceutical companies.
Tiba leads on both the innovation and commercialisation of pioneering solutions that meet the needs of the clinical and non-clinical workforce in the NHS. She is passionate about identifying health system gaps and boldly inventing simple, intuitive solutions and methodologies that address these.
The SMART workforce and i2i Network digital solutions are commissioned nationally by NHS England and global pharmaceutical companies and have been recognised for their innovative nature by NHS Accelerator programmes. Tiba was identified as a ‘One to Watch’ on the LDC and The Times's Top 50 most ambitious leaders in 2022.
- Dr Anthony Renshaw - Regional Medical Director, Europe & Africa Practice, International SOS
Dr Anthony Renshaw acts as chief medical officer to numerous global organisations, advising on public health, remote healthcare, crisis management, pandemic planning and corporate health. Since joining International SOS in 2008, he has consulted widely across Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific, and has overseen health service delivery platforms in both remote and urban health settings across the world including China, Mongolia, Russia, Korea, Japan, Australia and Papua New Guinea, working across a range of industrial clients and government agencies from prisons to defence. Through this, he has developed a keen interest in the complex interplay between global health and the private sector.
Prior to International SOS, Anthony worked as a surgeon in the UK and South Africa. He is a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. He is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, where he is an Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the Faculty of Rural, Remote and Humanitarian Healthcare.
Anthony holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau and read medicine at the University of Manchester, where he also holds bachelor degrees in immunology and oncology. He holds a doctorate in surgery from UCL, where he is a Health Executive-in Residence at the UCL Global Business School for Health.
- Rubén Rojas - CEO, Fractal EDM
Rubén is the Executive Director and founding partner of Fractal EDM, a company dedicated to applying health economics concepts to inform and support public policy. Rubén's main goal is to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve better health outcomes at a lower cost for the system.
He specialised in health economics at the University of York, United Kingdom, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment.
His postgraduate specializations include biostatistics, clinical epidemiology, and Outcomes Research from Harvard School of Public Health, USA. Additionally, he holds postgraduate specialisations in Value-Based Health Care and Behavioral Economics from Harvard Business School, USA.
In his professional roles, Rubén has served as an Advisor to the Minister of Health (2018-2019) and as a member of the Presidential Health Reform Commission during the same period.
- Vincent Sai - Group CEO and Partner, Modality Partnership
Vincent Sai is a highly accomplished healthcare leader with over 25 years of experience in primary care and large-scale transformation. As Group CEO and Partner of Modality Partnership, he has expanded its reach to over 11 million citizens across the UK.
A Chartered Accountant and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Vincent is the only non-clinical partner among 130 GPs. He also leads Pathfinder Healthcare Developments CIC and sits on the boards of biotech and health tech startups. Vincent is a Visiting Associate Professor of Practice at UCL’s Global Business School for Health.
- Sara Siegel - Global Health Sector Leader and Lead Partner for Healthcare, Deloitte UK and North and South Europe
Sara is Deloitte’s Global healthcare sector Leader and leads the health practice in the UK. This encapsulates the firm’s work with the payor and provider systems both publicly and privately funded. Sara’s passion for health began when she moved to the UK in 2003 and was first exposed to the NHS.
Sara believes passionately in the mission of the NHS and sees the incredible value that a health service free at the point of need provides to society. With her teams, she supports the NHS to do more and better with the resources at its disposal. Some of Sara’s work includes supporting the government on its Coronavirus testing programme, and the introduction of robotic and cognitive automation to improve the speed and quality of NHS services and to release more time for direct patient care. It is the introduction and uptake of new innovative practices either pioneered by individuals or tested first in other health systems around the world that Sara most enjoys working with her NHS clients on.
In her global role, Sara works to create connectivity between the health systems of the world all seeking to solve similar challenges. The practice supports healthcare clients with digital implementations, cyber security, data analytics, care pathway redesign, workforce improvements, virtual care and increasingly AI and GenerativeAI solutions to the wicked issues affecting healthcare.
Sara is a trustee of the Peter Sowerby Foundation which supports healthcare causes and she is a trustee of Helpforce which supports volunteering in the NHS.
- Adrian Stevensen - CEO, Independent Care
A career health business executive, Adrian has a huge depth of knowledge and experience in the design, commissioning, funding, operation management and governance of complex multidisciplinary projects. With over 32 years of experience driving private healthcare innovation in the UK and advising in international markets, he brings insight, prescience and the ability to proactively manage multifaceted stakeholder relationships.
Adrian is founder and CEO of Independent Care, delivering state of the art medical facilities across the UK. He is one of the most experienced developers and operational directors of private hospitals, mixed use diagnostic facilities and primary care centres in the UK.
He co-founded one of the leading private GP companies in the City of London and has also built a successful consultancy company advising the NHS and supporting investors and operators in international healthcare markets. As a Board member of IHPN, the Independent Healthcare Providers Network, he was a key influencer working with Central Government, the NHS, and other key stakeholders including the GMC and BMA in all aspects of governance and policy with implications for the sector.
- Ming Tang - Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England
Ming Tang is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) for NHS England, where she oversees data and analytics services and leads transformation programs with a team of approximately 1,700 FTEs. Her role includes the development and delivery of advanced data platforms and decision-support tools to improve operational efficiency and support healthcare recovery initiatives. Ming played a pivotal role in the COVID-19 pandemic response, managing data science, analysis, and the national vaccination service.
Previously, she served as the Managing Director of NHS South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit and Director of Healthcare Commissioning Services for the West Midlands. Before her healthcare roles, Ming spent over a decade at Accenture, leading the Supply Chain Practice in Southeast Asia, and held key operational roles at GlaxoSmithKline, specializing in logistics and new product planning.
Ming is a qualified executive coach, experienced mentor, and has a passion for knowledge-sharing through teaching and research. She envisions contributing to GBSH through guest lectures, mentoring, and exploring AI and digital innovation in healthcare.