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 has been Vice President Europe and Managing Director UK/Ireland at Novo Nordisk since 2007. He has worked for Novo Nordisk for 23 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.

Naaz Coker

Naaz Coker runs a management consultancy practice and is Chair of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust. 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 1998-2006. She has held many other voluntary appointments and is currently a trustee of the RSA and Council member of St George’s University of London. 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 Garside has her own management consultancy, Newhealth, specialising in organisational strategy and development in health care. She is on 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 and The Cambridge Health Network.  Pam is senior associate of the Nuffield Trust, a member of the Advisory Board of Doctors.net.uk, an adjunct professor at Imperial College Business School, and president 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 a member of the Board of the Public Library of Science. 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.