Non-executive directors
Appointed as Trust chairman in July 2010 having previously served as a non-executive director from November 2008. Richard qualified as a solicitor after leaving university. He has worked in the City for more than 30 years and is a Vice Chairman of Rothschild, where he has worked since 2006. Between 2003 and 2005 he was Director General of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, regulating the conduct of takeovers of public companies in the UK. Richard chairs the remuneration committee. He is a Trust member and lives locally.
- Member of the Financial Reporting Council's Financial Reporting Review Panel
- Trustee of Crisis
- Board director, UCL Partners
Sue joined the board in April 2007; she was re-appointed in 2010. Sue is a public health doctor. She was director of public health and then chief executive at south east London health authority (1988-1993) and regional director of public health at south western and south Thames regional offices (1994-1999). In 1999 Sue was appointed regional director of public health for London and health advisor to the Mayor of London and Greater London Authority, a position she held until 2006. Sue has a special interest in the older person and in the sustainability agenda. Sue is chair of the human resources and communications committee and is a member of the audit, quality and safety, and remuneration committees.
- Board Member, Food Standards Agency
- Chair, Public Health Action Support Team, A Social Enterprise Community Interest Company
- Co-chair, Climate and Health Council
- Member, Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee, NICE
- Honorary Visiting Professor, Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL
Appointed to the board in February 2012. He has extensive senior management experience at HM Treasury and in the economic regulation of the aviation industry. He was most recently a member of the Civil Aviation Authority Board with executive responsibility for the Authority’s economic output. Prior to that, Harry held a number of senior posts at HM Treasury during a long career there. Harry is a member of the audit, investment, and remuneration committees.
- Director, Directgreen Property Management Ltd
- Director and owner, H2B2 Ltd (Consultancy)
- Part-time Advisory Consultant to KPMG
A board member since July 2010 he was reappointed as chair of the audit committee in February 2012. A chartered accountant, he has worked in finance and banking for more than 40 years, holding senior positions including managing director and general manager of JP Morgan UK, group finance director HSBC plc, and director and group chief financial officer of National Westminster Bank plc from October 1996 until 2000. Since 2000 Richard has held a number of non-executive director positions and was treasurer of the Open University for eight years until 2009. He has also served on the Financial Reporting Council’s Financial Reporting Review Panel, Committee for Guidance on Audit Committees and the Audit Governance Working Group. As well as the audit committee, Richard chairs the investment committee and is a member of the remuneration committee.
- Non-Executive Director, Standard Chartered PLC
- Member, Finance Committee, London School of Economics
Jane joined the board in January 2007; she was re-appointed in 2010. Jane was chair of Lambeth PCT for five years prior to joining UCLH. Since then she has undertaken a range of non-executive roles including as a lay member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and chair of a local housing association. Before that she was vice-chair of Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham Health Authority and a senior lawyer in local government in London, latterly as Director of Law and Public Services at Islington Council. She is currently a non-executive member of the Department of Health Audit Committee and in January 2011 Jane was appointed as an associate board member of NHS London. In February 2012 she was appointed Chairman elect of Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust and will take up her position in November 2012. Jane is chair of the finance and contracting committee and a member of the human resources and communications committee and the remuneration committee.
- Non-executive member, Department of Health Audit Committee
- Associate member of the board, NHS London
- Chair, Croydon Care Solutions Ltd
- Member, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Investigations Committee
Joined the Trust in February 2010. John is Vice Provost (Health) at UCL (University College London) and is Head of the UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences and Head of the UCL Medical School. John joined UCL in 2009 from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, which he led from inception. He was a Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Physiology and Honorary Consultant Physician at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School before moving to Exeter in 1987. John is the immediate past chair of the Medical Schools Council and the UK Healthcare Education Advisory Committee. He recently led a High Level Group for the Chief Medical Officer on Overcoming Barriers to Clinical Effectiveness and at the beginning of 2007 he was invited by the Secretary of State to lead an Independent UK Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers, the final report for which was submitted in January 2008. In 2011 he was elected President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and is a member of the Council for Science and Technology. John chairs the quality and safety committee and is a member of the remuneration committee.
- President, Academy of Medical Sciences
- Member, Medical Schools Council Executive Committee
- Member, National Institute of Health Research Advisory Committee
- Member, Health Education National Strategic Exchange
- Non-executive director, UCL Business plc
- Non-executive board member, Francis Crick Institute
- Member, Council for Science and Technology
- Non-executive director and Chair of the Medical Advisory Panel, BUPA
Diana joined the board in December 2011. Diana has a distinguished record at the highest level in the civil service, NHS and higher education. During her career she served the NHS as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, Director of Healthcare for the NHS Management Executive, Director of the Public Health Laboratory Service and non-executive director of the NHS Blood and Transplant Authority. She is also a qualified haematologist and epidemiologist and was an honorary consultant haematologist at the Central Middlesex Hospital. Most recently, she was the Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford University. Member of the finance and contracting, audit, and remuneration committees.
- Vice Chair, Council of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Trustee, Sue Ryder
Executive directors
Robert Naylor has been chief executive at UCLH NHS Foundation Trust since November 2000. He has led the development of one of the largest building projects in the NHS to create the new world-class University College Hospital, which was handed over to the Trust in two phases from 2005. In April 2012 the Trust will open the third phase of development with the new UCH/ Macmillan Cancer Centre. In 2009 for the second time in the last decade the Trust achieved the status of the top performing hospital in the NHS in the Dr Foster league tables. UCLH was designated one of the five Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centres and is a founding member of UCL Partners, an Academic Health Science Centre. Robert was awarded a Knighthood ‘for services to healthcare’ by Her Majesty The Queen in the New Year Honours List 2008. He has been a chairman of a number of national and regional committees and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Greenwich University in 2009.
- Member, NHS Confederation Policy Board
- Chairman, Radiology Reporting Online
- Board Member, Foundation Trust Network
- Board director, UCL Partners
Richard Alexander joined UCLH in April 2007 from Oracle Corporation, one of the world's largest software companies. His 15-year career at Oracle, ultimately as a vice-president, included three years in India establishing a Global Financial Information Centre in Bangalore, and two years in the Netherlands as Country Finance Director. Richard began his career at Mars Confectionery before joining Zenith Data Systems and then Oracle. Richard has a mathematics degree from Oxford University and is a Chartered Management Accountant.
- No relevant interests declared
Dr Geoff Bellingan trained as a chest physician and then in intensive care and has been a consultant in intensive care at UCLH since 1997. He works clinically on the ICU at UCLH. Geoff was a Medical Research Council clinician scientist and obtained his PhD in inflammatory cell biology at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Reader in intensive care medicine at UCL and leads on several multinational clinical trails in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and critical care. Geoff has a strong interest in medical leadership and was clinical director of critical care in 2002, theatres and anaesthesia in 2006 and of emergency services in 2008.
- Co-director, CPX Ltd
- Director, Radiology Reporting Online
- UK Council member for European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
- European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Training subcommittee
- Member of Critical Care Committee for the Royal College of Physicians
- Medical Equivalence Committee for Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
- Member of Research Committee for the Intensive Care Society
- Co-director, London Intensive Care Ltd
Katherine Fenton was appointed as Chief Nurse in January 2011. Previously she was Director of Clinical Standards and Workforce/Chief Nurse at South Central Strategic Health Authority.
Katherine’s nursing and midwifery career spans 30 years and has included the posts of Director of Nursing and Patient Services at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust and at Barts and the London NHS Trust.
Katherine led the development of the Safer Care Tool for setting safe nursing establishments based the acuity and dependency of the patients. She is the joint founder and developer of the national Energise for Excellence programme – a call to action for nurses and midwives to lead the way in reducing costs and delivering excellent care. Katherine sits on a number of national groups and has a special interest in increasing the contribution of the professions to improving care pathways and a strong expertise in improving patient safety and service improvement.
- Visiting Professor at London City and London Southbank Universities
- Governor, National Society for Epilepsy
Michael Foster was appointed in April 2007. His early career was developed in NHS financial management initially working in the south west of England and then moving to London in 1994. Whilst in London he has held the position of Finance Director in five NHS organisations including the strategic, commissioning and acute sectors. Immediately prior to joining the Trust Mike was director of finance and investment for the North Central London Strategic Health Authority. Mike has an interest in organisational development, performance improvement systems, management information and IT strategy and is an active member of a number of national groups overseeing strategic information developments across the NHS.
- Member, McKinsey Hospital Institute Advisory Board
- Board member, Connecting for Health/NHS Information Centre National Information Reporting Services Board
- Board member NHS Connecting for Health/NHS Information Centre National Open Data Platform Project Board
Dr Gill Gaskin was appointed medical director of the specialist hospitals board in January 2010. She trained in Renal and General Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, completing a PhD on the biology of systemic vasculitis. Since appointment as a consultant in 1995, her career has incorporated a variety of stimulating roles: Senior Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Medical Education, Clinical Director, North London Training Programme Director in Renal Medicine, member of the North West London Clinical Reference Group and the London Workforce Advisory Forum, and prior to her move to UCLH, Director of the Medicine Clinical Programme Group at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. Gill is a member of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and is a participant in the NHS Top Leaders Programme.
- Honorary Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Tony has been a medical director since 2001. Since November 2006 he has been the corporate medical director with Trust-wide responsibility for quality and safety, research and development and training and education. He was previously clinical director of urology and nephrology and medical director for medicine and surgery. Tony is a professor of urology at the University of London and was director of the Institute of Urology from 1996 to 2008.