Sir Mark Walport HonFRSE

Chair, Imperial College Health Partners

Sir Mark Walport spent the first part of his career as a physician scientist at Hammersmith Hospital, working on the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus. In 1997, he became Head of the Division of Medicine at Imperial College London and has spent the rest of his career focusing on science management and policy. After a stint as a Governor of the Wellcome Trust, he became Director in 2003 and, after 10 years in this role, was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government. As head of the Government Office for Science, Mark provided advice on science, engineering, technology and social science across many areas of government policy. He left this role in 2017 to become the founding Chief Executive Designate of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), where he retired in 2020. He was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours for Services to Medical Research. In January 2022, he took up the role as Chair of Imperial College Health Partners.

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