Lord Prior of Brampton
Chair - NHS England
Lord Prior has been Chairman of NHS England since October 2018.
He was educated at Cambridge University and subsequently qualified as a barrister. He trained in finance at Lehman Brothers and Lazard Freres in New York before holding a number of senior positions within the industrial sector, including British Steel, where he was Commercial Director. He was elected MP for North Norfolk in 1997.
He served as Chairman of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2002 – 2012 before becoming Chairman of the Care Quality Commission.
In 2015, he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and created a Life Peer. In December 2016, he was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, with specific responsibility for developing industrial strategy. He stepped down from this role in October 2017 to become Chairman of University College London Hospitals.
He is also Deputy Chairman at Lazard.
Alan Gemmell O.B.E
Her Majesty's Trade Commissioner, South Asia and British Deputy High Commissioner - Western India
Alan was appointed Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for South Asia and the British Deputy High Commissioner for Western India in June 2020.
Prior to his appointment, he was Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council where he promoted intra-Commonwealth trade working with leading British businesses including: HSBC, JCB, Rolls Royce, Standard Chartered, as well as the City of London, the UK government and a number of governments of Commonwealth countries. Alan was part of a 2019 Commonwealth mission to assess the successful application of the government of Maldives to re-join the Commonwealth.
Alan has worked in Brazil, India, Israel and Mexico with the British Council and was Director of the British Council in India from 2016 to 2018 leading the UK-India Year of Culture and working with State Governments to support education agendas across the country. He has also worked on counter terrorism and preventing extremism in the UK’s Cabinet Office and on economic migration in the Home Office and was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year’s Honours list for services to arts and science.
Chris Born
Senior Healthcare Specialist, Healthcare UK, Department for International Trade
Chris is a former NHS CEO who has worked as a senior consultant specialist with Healthcare UK at the Department for International Trade (DIT) for the last eight years. He was interim Managing Director in 2016.
He works with National Health Service (NHS) and commercial health and care organisations in the UK to make an integrated offer to operators, developers, investors, governments and health services in the target markets of India, China, SE Asia, the Middle East and other countries. He is very well versed in all aspects of healthcare and most recently worked on the Healthcare Trade Mission to India and a healthy ageing event in China and other markets. He is the DIT Ambassador for the Ageing Society Grand Challenge of the UK government’s Industrial Strategy. He has been responsible for the development of a detailed set of UK offers, including clinical services (most recently diabetes, oncology, cardiac services and mental health), infrastructure, training and digital health.
