Non-executive Directors
Non-executive directors are appointed by the Trust’s Council of Governors on a four year fixed-term contract. They are either residents of the local community, or King’s patients. They bring a wide range of skill and experience to the organisation.
Collectively, they provide strategic guidance, support and challenge to the Trust to ensure it meets its objectives.
Sir David Behan, Chair
David joined the Trust as Chair in June 2024. He was previously a Non-Executive Director on NHS England’s Board. He was also Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission between 2012 and 2018 and Chair of the Board of Health Education England from 2018 to 2023.
David also worked for over 25 years in local Government, including as Director of Social Services in three Local Authorities. He previously held the role of Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships at the Department of Health.
Jane Bailey
Jane joined the Trust as a Non-Executive Director in July 2023. She brings six years’ experience on the Board of University Hospital Southampton (UHS), during which time she served as Deputy Chair and Senior Independent Director during the period covering the COVID-19 pandemic, and briefly as interim Chair.
Jane started her career at the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, having graduated from King’s College London with a degree in Human Environmental Studies. There she became senior commercial vice president. Jane specialised in leading global research and development teams in the formation of strategies to bring new medicines to patients. For five years she ran her own strategy development consultancy working across a breadth of healthcare organisations. In 2017, Jane completed an MSc in public health, with distinction, at King’s College London.
Dame Christine Beasley
Dame Christine Beasley has held senior roles across the NHS in a career spanning 50 years. This includes being appointed Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Health, a position she held from 2004 to 2012.
She has extensive experience of driving positive changes in clinical practice, as well as overseeing major organisational change and development.
Nicholas Campbell-Watts
Nicholas Campbell-Watts has spent much of his career working with people and communities experiencing multiple and complex health and social care challenges linked to mental health, learning disabilities, homelessness, or offending. He has predominantly worked at a senior level in the voluntary sector. He currently works for Certitude, a charity that supports people across London who have learning disabilities, autism, and mental health needs.
Nicholas has a track record of involvement in system and organisational change and transformation, and has previous experience as a Non-Executive Director at Lambeth NHS Primary Care Trust. He has lived and worked in south London for over 30 years and currently lives in Lewisham. He is married with three children.
Professor Yvonne Doyle
Professor Yvonne Doyle is a population health specialist with a portfolio including national and international Trustee, educational, and advisory roles.
She qualified as a doctor and has worked for over 30 years in senior roles in the NHS and the UK Department of Health, and in the academic and independent sectors. Previous roles include National Public Health Director at NHS England, National Medical Director at Public Health England, and Regional Director for London, advising two London Mayors.
She has acted as an adviser to the World Health Organisation on Healthy Cities, and continues to take a research interest in urban health and the environment.
Professor Graham Lord
Professor Lord joined the Trust as a Non-Executive Director in September 2024. Professor Lord is Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences) and Executive Director of King’s Health Partners. He is Chief Academic Officer, a Non-Executive Director role, at both King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trusts.
A leading clinician-scientist, Professor Lord trained in Medicine at the University of Cambridge, gained a PhD at Imperial and completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard University.
Previously Graham was the Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester. He was also an Honorary Consultant Transplant Nephrologist at Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and Executive Director of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre.
Prior to joining the University of Manchester in 2019, Graham held the position of Director of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College London and was Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Experimental Immunobiology at King’s College London.
Akhter Mateen
Akhter Mateen is a former Chief Auditor of Unilever. He retired from Unilever in 2012. In his 29-year career he has held high-level finance roles in Pakistan, Bangladesh, the UK, Latin America, South East Asia and Australasia. Since 2014, he has held non-executive roles in various public, private, and not-for-profit organisations.
Akhter is a Non-executive Director of CABI, a not-for-profit international development organisation. He is a Trustee of Malala Fund UK, focusing on 12 years of free, safe, quality education for girls around the world, and a Trustee of Developments in Literacy (DIL) UK, a charity contributing to the education of the underprivileged in Pakistan. He has an MBA in Finance.
Gerry Murphy
Gerry Murphy joined the Trust as a Non-Executive Director in May 2025. He was formerly a Non-Executive Board member of the Department of Health and Social Care (2014 to 2024), and also chaired its audit and risk committee.
Gerry’s previous roles include being a Non-Executive Director of Currys PLC; Senior Independent Director of Capital & Counties Properties PLC; and a Non-Executive Director of Capital & Regional PLC. He is also a former Deloitte LLP Partner and member of the Deloitte Board, and was previously Chairman of the Audit and Assurance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Dr Angela Spatharou
Dr Spatharou is a Senior Partner, UKI and EMEA Leader for Healthcare and Life Sciences for IBM Consulting, and a member of IBM’s global Healthcare leadership. She is a member of the Council of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), as well as a member of the LSE Finance and Estates Committee, the LSE Data Science Institute (DSI) Advisory Board, and an LSE Governor Emeritus.
Dr Spatharou has spent over two decades working with the NHS and international health systems, health providers, insurers, and digital innovators on value-based care, productivity, digital health and advanced analytics, in senior leadership roles with IBM and formerly with McKinsey & Company. She was awarded the UK Management Consultancies Association (MCA) “Thought Leader Consultant of the Year” Award in 2022 for her work driving “new thinking globally around AI, Digital and Analytics, and also on inclusiveness in Healthcare and Higher Education”.
Dr Spatharou has previously served as a Supervisory Board member of the EU agency European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Health; Board member of Action on Addiction UK; Chair of the Board of Kids’ City Foundation in South London; and Advisory Board Member of Healthcare Business International (HBI).