Summary of Experience

•  Chief Executive and senior positions at national, regional and local levels

• Top management positions in NHS, Third Sector, commercial enterprises, and Higher Education

• Management of budgets in excess of £200 million

• Numerous non-executive positions at international, national, regional and local levels

• National Chairman, appointed by Government

• Professorial positions – permanent and visiting, UK and overseas

• Senior academic management posts in ‘old’ and ‘new’ universities

• College Principal

• Consultant to International Agencies and other Countries

• Keynote speaker at numerous global conferences, including many world conferences in public health and health care reform

• Extensive networks at home and abroad, including Houses of Parliament, Privy Council, NHS Confederation and Local Government Association

• Significant commercial experience

• ‘Ambassador’ for the World Health Organisation and European Commission

• Author/Co-author of numerous international and national reports, including for the World Health Assembly

• External examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees up to PhD

• Significant experience in quality improvement

• National role in flexible learning

• Extensive experience of public speaking

• Comprehensive experience of working with the mass media

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Selected Present, Recent and Past Honorary and Non-Executive positions

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• Council Member and Strategy Adviser, International Order of St George

• Member of Court, University of Bedfordshire

• Member of the Advisory Group - National Centre for Creative Health

• Chair, Four Nations Committee for Public Health

• Board Member, Health and Care Enterprise Board, Greater Lincolnshire LEP

• Board Member, Public Health England Ministerial appointment)

• Member, NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard Board (WRES)

• Member, Department of Health Group on Obesity

• Adviser to the All-party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing

• Chair, Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project

• Chair, External Review of the United Nations International Institute for Global Health

• Committee Member - Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference and Exchange

• Chair, National Pharmacy and Public Health Forum (Ministerial appointment)

• Co-Chair, National Healthy Universities Network

• Co-Chair, National Committee on Accident Prevention (with RoSPA)

• Member, Chief Medical Officer's (England) Advisory Group, White Paper on Public Health

• Member, Department of Health and Local Government Transition Group

• Member, Department of Health, Public Health Engagement Group

• Visiting Professor in Health Development, Anglia Ruskin University

• Member, Professorial Council, Anglia Ruskin University

• Board Member, Postgraduate Medical Institute, ARU

• V isiting Professor, Brunel University

• Honorary Professor, Staffordshire University

• Member, English National Board on Nutrition Education

• Chair, Food Policy Steering Group, Thames Valley University

• Chair and Trustee, National No Smoking Day Organisation

• Chair, Education Committee, Marie Curie Cancer Care

• Executive Committee Member and Trustee, National Heart Forum

• Honorary NHS Consultant in Public Health, NE Essex PCT

• Adviser and Steering Group Member, HP Source, The comprehensive database of health promotion policies, infrastructures and practices.

• Board Member and Trustee, International Union for the Health Promotion and Health Education

• Consultant to the World Health Organisation

• Governor, Moggerhanger Primary School

• Member, Strategic Advisory Committee, Royal National Institute for the Blind

• Chairman, Humberside Economic Development Committee (Training and Enterprise Council)

• Non-Executive Board Member, Dove House Hospice

• Chairman, Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Education Committee (FE Funding Council)

• Chairman, ‘Health of the Nation’ national Task Force on ‘Improving Diet and the NHS’

• Member, Chief Scientist's Advisory Group

• Member, ‘Health of the Nation’ national Task Force on ‘Obesity’

• Member, Department of Health National Steering Group on the ‘Future of NHS Colleges’

• Board Member, Health Education Council (Ministerial appointment)

• Chairman, numerous WHO Committees, including acting as WHO Ambassador to Estonia

• Led WHO missions to Iceland, Armenia, and Slovenia

• Ambassador, Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Development Agency

• Adviser to the Governments of Hungary, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Armenia, and Canada 

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