Board of Trustees

• Robin Stott (chair)
• Viggo Birch
• Naaz Coker
• Pam Garside
• Richard Smith

Robin Stott

Dr Robin Stott, C3′s Chair, has for many years worked to promote social, environmental and economic justice as a basis for global good health, and firmly believes that health-promoting societies have the same ingredients as sustainable societies. Robin worked as a consultant physician in Lewisham Hospital, where he ran a diabetes clinic, and has been active in the anti-nuclear movement and with the charity Medact, of which he was chairman for eight years. He was for six years a member of The London Sustainable Development Commission, and now co-chairs the Climate and Health Council, which seeks to engage health professionals in tackling climate change.

Viggo Birch

Viggo Birch retired in April 2012 from a position as Vice President Europe and Managing Director UK/Ireland at Novo Nordisk. He had worked for Novo Nordisk for 24 years, for the first three years of which he was Vice President International Operations based in Copenhagen and in charge of many EU countries and Latin America. From 1991 he was based in Spain as Managing Director for Spain and Portugal and in 2001 became Vice President Europe and Managing Director for Northern Europe. Viggo trained as a business economist at both the Copenhagen Business School and the Wharton School in Pennsylvania. He is both a Board member and co-founder of the Spanish Diabetes Foundation and Chairman of Medinova Research Ltd. Viggo is also a member of the Life Sciences Strategy Skills Board under COGENT.

Naaz Coker

Naaz Coker runs a management consultancy practice and was chair of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust until October 2011. She spent 20 years in the NHS, followed by 10 years at the King’s Fund. Until November 2008, she was chair of Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, and she was chair of the British Refugee Council from 1998 to 2006. She has held many other voluntary appointments and is currently a trustee of the Clore Social Leadership programme and a non-executive director of the Ethical Property Company. She was awarded ‘Asian Woman of the Year’ in 2000, 2003 and winner of the ‘Asian Woman of Achievement’ award in the Public Sector category in 2004.

Pam Garside

Pam has more than 35 years experience of working in the healthcare sector and advises the boards of a broad range of healthcare organisations on strategy, governance and leadership issues. She began her career in management in the NHS before moving to the USA. Pam now spends her time working with Departments of Health, with NHS organisations, regulators, and the private sector in health in the UK. She is a member of the visiting faculty at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge where she is co-director of the Cambridge International Health Leadership Programme, The Cambridge Health Network, and led the IWF Fellows Programme on Leadership for a globalised world for 10 years. She is also a senior associate of the Nuffield Trust, a member of the Advisory Board of Doctors.net.uk, an adjunct professor at Imperial College Business School, chairman of Diagnosis and board member of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation in Washington DC.

Richard Smith

Richard Smith is director of the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative, the chair of Patients Know Best, and is an adjunct professor in the Imperial College Institute for Global Health Innovation. In the past he has been the editor of the British Medical Journal, chief executive of the BMJ Publishing Group and UnitedHealth Europe, a doctor of sorts, and a television doctor. He loves making soup, porridge, marmalade, and trouble.