Served as Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire from 1997-2015. For thirteen years he was a member of the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet. In the Cabinet, he served as Secretary of State for Health and as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal in which role he led the implementation of the Government’s legislative programme. He is former Vice Chairman of the Conservative party and Director of the Conservative Party Research Department. He was previously Deputy Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce.

Senior UK Healthcare Partner at KPMG and one of the foremost global experts on healthcare systems. He was appointed Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham in 2000 and went on to run the NHS region from Oxford to the Isle of Wight before joining the NHS Management Board as a Director-General at the Department of Health, where he developed High Quality Care for All with Lord Darzi. He masterminded the largest new hospital build in NHS history, established the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and developed one of the highest performing healthcare organisations in the UK. Between 2014 and 2018, he was a member of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Health Sector for the World Economic Forum and sits on the Advisory Board of the China Center for Health Development at Peking University. He has authored two books: "In Search of the Perfect Health System” and “Human: solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare”. He is a Board Trustee of the King’s Fund.

A clinician scientist having held senior positions in Academic Medicine and the NHS at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College, London and most recently the University of Melbourne. He currently serves as Chair of the East Kent Hospital Trust, on various health and health technology Boards and as a Trustee of Pancreatic Cancer UK. He led the formation of the UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and was its first CEO. He has published over 230 papers on reproductive medicine and cancer.

Until recently Chair of King’s College Hospital, one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the country. He was previously Chair of Four Seasons Health Care which owns and operates over 500 care homes and psychiatric hospitals in the UK. For the three years up to 2012, Ian Smith worked in Palestine and Israel on the economic underpinning to the peace initiative driven by the ‘Quartet’. He is former CEO of Reed Elsevier, Taylor Woodrow and the General Healthcare Group. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MA from Oxford University.

A life sciences entrepreneur and consultant neurologist, with an interest in evolutionary medicine and complex systems strategy. He has held NHS Clinical Networks, Vanguard and Senate roles. He is chair of the Big Tent Foundation, President of Closed Loop Medicine and a Non Exec Director of the MDU.

An independent healthcare consultant and formerly a GP in Castlefields, Runcorn for 36 years, the National Clinical Director of Primary, Dept of Health England 2001-10, and visiting Professor Manchester and Durham Universities.

The former Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University and is the Chair of the Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Unusually, the Trust provides fully integrated health and social care services across the Wirral. He is also Chairman of Procure Plus Holdings, providing services for Housing Associations and unemployed people.

Most recently was Group Marketing Director for UK medical products manufacturer Vernacare – responsible for leading marketing and market access activities across 48 countries and six continents. She has led the implementation of a new international expansion strategy, resulting in significant export growth and opening up new markets in southern Asia, the Middle East and across Europe.