The Wellcome Trust has announced that Eliza Manningham-Buller has started as the Trust's new Chair.
Baroness Manningham-Buller is the first woman to chair the Wellcome Trust's Board of Governors, and was appointed following an open recruitment process. She was previously a Governor of the Wellcome Trust, and succeeds Sir William Castell as Chair who retired on September 30, 2015.
Between 2002 and 2007, Eliza Manningham-Buller was Director-General of the UK Security Service (MI5), and led the service through significant change. In 2008 she was made a life peer. She sits on the cross benches in the House of Lords where she is a member of the Science and Technology Committee. She is a Lady Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and a Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath. She gave the BBC Reith Lectures in 2011.
She was Chair of the Council of Imperial College London from 2011 until May 2015.
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