Graham Lord is the Senior Vice-President, Health & Life Sciences, King’s College London, Executive Director, King’s Health Partners and Chief Academic Officer & Board Director, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts.

He was previously Vice-President at the University of Manchester and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, a Consultant Transplant Nephrologist at Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and Executive Director of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (2019-2024).

Graham qualified in Medicine from Cambridge. Following clinical posts at Oxford, the Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College he was appointed as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant specialising in Renal and Transplantation Medicine.

As an MRC Clinician Scientist, he undertook postdoctoral research in fundamental immune cell biology including a five-year appointment as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. On his return to the UK, he established a Department of Experimental Immunology at KCL and was the Director of the NIHR BRC from 2012-2019.

His clinical academic interests include multi-organ transplantation and the immunogenetics of transplant survival. Graham has significant commercial expertise, having founded companies in the US that focus on immuno-oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmunity.

He also has a long-term interest in academic healthcare systems and how they can drive improvements to human health in an equitable and sustainable manner.