Leadership Team

The Executive Leadership Team works alongside the Board of Directors to set and influence our strategic direction, while providing leadership both within the organisation and externally, as ambassadors and thought leaders.

Dr Richard Scott

Chief Executive Officer

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Dr Ellen Thomas

Interim Chief Medical Officer

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Professor Matt Brown

Chief Scientific Officer

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Catherine Byers

Chief Financial and Performance Officer

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Jackie Kinsey

Chief People Officer

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Nick Maltby

General Counsel, Company Secretary and Data Protection Officer

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Rakhi Rajani

Chief Digital and Strategy Officer

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Dr Augusto Rendon

Chief Bioinformatician

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Pete Sinden

Chief Information Officer

Chris Schonewald

Chief of Staff and Director of Strategy

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Board

The Genomics England Board oversees all of our activities, ratifies all major decisions and sets the overall strategy for the organisation. Genomics England has several independent advisory committees that report to the board. These include the Ethics Advisory Committee, Science Advisory Committee, Data Advisory Committee, Access Review Committee, GeCIP Board and the Audit Committee.

Dr Richard Scott

Chief Executive Officer

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Baroness Nicola Blackwood

Chair

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Dr Vikram Bajaj

Non-Executive Director

Professor Sir John Bell

Non-Executive Director, Chair of Scientific Advisory Committee

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Professor Ewan Birney

Non-Executive Director

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Professor Matt Brown

Chief Scientific Officer

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Roz Campion

Director, Office for Life Sciences

Dr Annalisa Jenkins

Non-Executive Director

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Nicola Perrin MBE

Non-Executive Director

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Dr Keith Stewart

Non-Executive Director

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Sir Jonathan Symonds CBE

Non-Executive Director

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Participant Panel

The Participant Panel sits at the heart of Genomics England and is made up of participants from the 100,000 Genomes Project, and parents or carers of people involved in this project. It is expanding to include patients and relatives from the GenOMICC COVID-19 study and NHS patients who give consent for their whole genome sequences and associated health data to be used for research in the Genomics England National Genomic Research Library.

The Panel acts as an advisory body to the Genomics England Board, working to ensure that the health data held by Genomics England is being looked after with respect and used in the best interests of our participants.

Jillian Hastings Ward

Chair of the Participant Panel

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Rebecca Middleton

Vice Chair for Rare Conditions

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Helen White

Vice Chair for Cancer

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Frances Allan

Participant Panel member

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Paul Arvidson

Participant Panel member

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Lisa Beaton

Participant Panel member

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Cecily Berryman

Participant Panel member

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Dr Helen Bulbeck

Participant Panel member

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Dr Latha Chandramouli

Participant Panel member

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Mel Dixon

Participant Panel member

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Alison Fox

Participant Panel member

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Clarissa Hopkins

Participant Panel member

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Hannah Humphrey

Participant Panel member

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Ismael Kherroubi García

Participant Panel member

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Anthony Locke

Participant Panel member

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Dave McCormick

Participant Panel member

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Helen Mendis

Participant Panel member

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Hannah Podd

Participant Panel Member

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Shelley Simmonds

Participant Panel member

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Dominique Stephens

Participant Panel member

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Emma Walters

Participant Panel member

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Science Advisory Committee

Our independent Science Advisory Committee advises the Genomics England Board on scientific aspects of the company's projects. This includes overseeing: disease inclusion criteria; Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership (GeCIP) domain formation; data access request applications; and patient recruitment strategies. The Committee considers the interests of patients, the public, scientists and clinicians engaged in genomic research or genomic medicine.

Professor Sir John Bell

Non-Executive Director, Chair of Scientific Advisory Committee

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Professor Tim Aitman

University of Edinburgh

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James Brenton

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

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Professor Sir John Burn

Newcastle University

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Professor Patrick Chinnery

University of Cambridge

David Church

Andrew Fry

Professor Dame Sue Hill

NHS England

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Professor Matthew Hurles

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Professor Mark Lawler

HDR UK

Professor David Lomas

Deputy Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee

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Professor Anna Schuh

University of Oxford

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Professor Matt Seymour

University of Leeds

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Dr Samra Turajlic

Cancer Research UK

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Professor Andrew Wilkie

University of Oxford

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Ethics Advisory Committee

Our independent Ethics Advisory Committee identifies, defines, examines and responds to ethical issues in the 100,000 Genomes Project. They also help to ensure the Project is delivered in the interests of the public and of participants.

They provide timely advice, guidance, review and recommendations on ethical issues, as requested by the Board.

Dr Latha Chandramouli

Participant Panel member

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Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery

Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee

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Francis Crawley

Executive Director, Good Clinical Practice Alliance

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Professor Angus Clarke

Cardiff University

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Anne Croudass

Cancer Research UK

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Professor Adam Hedgecoe

Professor of Social Science, Cardiff University

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Associate Professor Ruth Horn

Associate Professor in Ethics, Ethox

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Hannah Humphrey

Participant Panel member

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Ismael Kherroubi García

Participant Panel member

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Dr Mavis Machirori

Senior Researcher, Ada Lovelace Institute

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Dr Pete Mills

Executive Director at the PHG Foundation

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Nicola Perrin MBE

Non-Executive Director

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Dr Nadeem Qureshi

University of Nottingham

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Professor Rameen Shakur

Professor of Genomics and Precision Cardiovascular Medicine

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Nechama Wieder

PhD Candidate in Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford

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Access Review Committee

The Access Review Committee’s (ARC) role is to provide an independent examination and response to requests for access to genomic and health data held in the Genomics England National Genomic Research Library. These requests come from academic researchers, clinicians, and commercial researchers.

There is a set application process for these individuals to go through to access the data. The ARC reviews these applications to check that they are in line with the aims of the National Genomic Research Library Protocol and to assess whether they are in the interest of both the public and the participants. 

Dr Christine Patch

Chair of the Access Review Committee

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Natasha Dunkley

Head of Digital Strategy, Welsh Government

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Jillian Hastings Ward

Chair of the Participant Panel

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Helen White

Vice Chair for Cancer

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Clarissa Hopkins

Participant Panel member

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Hannah Podd

Participant Panel Member

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Dr Simon Stockley

General Practitioner

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Dr Shereen Tadros

Consultant in Clinical Genetics, GOSH

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Danielle Wilson

Centre and Research Commercialisation Manager, Imperial College

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Research Network Committee

The Research Network Committee oversees the operation of the Research Network and includes a range of representatives from across the Research Network communities. Three places on the Research Network Committee are reserved for the representatives of the Participant Panel and they contribute and vote as any other member of the Research Network Committee. The individual Participant Panel representatives are free to rotate attendance at the Research Network Committee according to their availability.

Professor Eamonn Sheridan

Chair of the Research Network Committee

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Dr Helen Bulbeck

Participant Panel member

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Professor Dame Sue Hill

NHS England

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Dave McCormick

Participant Panel member

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Helen Mendis

Participant Panel member

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Professor John Sayer

Deputy Chair and Research representative

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Dr Nicky Whiffin

Quantitative Genomics representative

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Dr Catherine Taylor

Clinical representative

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Dr Letizia Vestito

Early Career Researcher representative

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Professor Claude Chelala

Data Science representative

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Dr William Macken

Early Career Researcher representative

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Research Network Community Leads

Our Research Network Community Leads spearhead, represent and advise the 8 cross-functional communities that make up our Research Network. Championing their respective community interests, the leads engage with Genomics England to identify strategic research and funding opportunities.

The Community Leads drive collaborations, skill-sharing and meaningful interactions between members of their communities, streamlining the way genomic research is carried out.