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.
Harjinder Kang
Director Healthcare, Life Sciences & Bio Economy, Department for International Trade.
Harjinder joined the Civil Service following a private sector career of over 30 years within the global pharmaceutical industry, primarily with AstraZeneca PLC, where he held numerous senior roles. He is the Vice Chair of Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and has served on the Council of the University of Birmingham.
In 2016 Harjinder founded Abnasia Ltd, an independent consulting firm specialising in providing commercial expertise to global pharma industry and was engaged by many of the top pharma companies to assist them with their strategic commercial issues.
Harjinder is delighted in the opportunity of joining the Department for International Trade to lead this vitally important area of the economy. The pace of innovation in the UK is staggering, and he is immensely proud to be supporting the healthcare, life sciences and bioeconomy sector. He and his team will do everything in their power to help UK companies and institutions achieve even greater success, both within the UK and abroad.
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.
