<p>The Lord Darzi of Denham is chairman of Flagship Pioneering's Preemptive Health &amp; Medicine Initiative and is a director at Apriori Bio. He is also co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Paul Hamlyn chair of surgery and consultant surgeon at Imperial College London. He is non-executive director of NHS England, chair of the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative, co-director of the NHS Digital Academy and chair of the Preemptive Medicine and Health Security Initiative at Flagship Pioneering. In 2002, Professor Darzi was knighted for his services to medicine and surgery; in 2007 he was introduced as Lord Darzi of Denham to the UK’s House of Lords as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health; he is a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council and was awarded the Order of Merit in 2016.</p>

Ara Darzi, OM, KBE, PC, FRS

Chairman, Preemptive Health & Medicine Initiative, Flagship Pioneering