Sharmila Nebhrajani

Sharmila Nebhrajani is Chairman of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the organisation responsible for assessing the clinical and cost effectiveness of medical innovations in the NHS, and is Non Executive Director at Halma plc, Severn Trent plc, ITV plc and Coutts Bank.

In her executive career she spent 15 years at the BBC, latterly as Chief Operating Officer for BBC Future Media & Technology, and was most recently Chief Executive at Wilton Park, an executive agency of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office convening international dialogues for senior policy makers from around the world. She currently chairs the Audit and Risk Committee for the Sovereign Grant and sits on the board of the Lord Chamberlain’s Committee for the Royal Household.

Sharmila read Medicine at St Anne’s College Oxford, is a World Fellow at the University of Yale since 2007 and a Chartered Accountant. She has served on the boards of the Medical Research Council and the Association of Medical Research Charities and was made an OBE in 2014 for services to medical research.