Our Board

Our Convenor
DAME SALLY DAVIES

Dame Sally Davies is the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Trinity Challenge. Before this, she was Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK government from March 2011 to September 2019, having held the post on an interim basis since June 2010.

Dame Sally was the Co-Convenor of the UN Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). She has spoken on AMR at numerous global events, including the World Health Assembly side events, the G8 science ministers’ meeting (2015), the Global Health Security Initiative (2015), and the UN General Assembly side event (2016). For three years, she was the Chair of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on AMR. Dame Sally was a member of the World Health Organisation Executive Board 2014 to 2016 and has led delegations to a range of WHO summits and forums since 2004.

Steve Davis

Steve Davis is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as Senior Strategy Advisor and Interim China Country Office Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also serves as co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group, is a Distinguished Fellow with the World Economic Forum, and a member of numerous boards and advisory committees. He is the former president and CEO of PATH, a leading global health innovation organization; former Director of Social Innovation at McKinsey & Company, a global consultancy; and former CEO of Corbis, a digital media pioneer. With degrees from Princeton University, University of Washington and Columbia Law School, he speaks and writes regularly about the intersection of innovation, technology and social impact. He is the author of the forthcoming book Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism. Steve lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.

Sally Spensley

Sally is qualified as a Chartered Accountant and went on to pursue a career as a Finance Director, primarily in the advertising and marketing services sector. From 2008 to 2019 she was Chief Financial Officer for the EMEA region for J Walter Thompson, one of WPP’s major networks. In this role she served on several boards around Europe and was responsible for all financial, legal and HR matters.

Sally is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. She is also a Trustee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists where she sits on the Finance and Management Committee. Sally lives with her family in London.

Kate Lampard CBE

Kate works as an independent consultant undertaking investigations and advising organisations on management and service effectiveness and development. She led the NHS investigations into Jimmy Savile and produced a report for the Secretary of State for Health setting out the lessons for today’s health service. She was commissioned by the board of Serco Plc to investigate the treatment of residents at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.

Previously Kate spent 13 years as a practising barrister before moving into the public sector where she held several non-executive appointments. Kate has been the chair of the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority, vice chair of the South of England Strategic Health Authority and a non-executive director and vice chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service Limited. She acted as interim chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.

Kate is the lead non-executive director on the Department of Health Board as well as being a trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Royal Horticultural Society. Kate was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to the National Health Service and to the community in Kent.