Lynne Gailey and Jamie Dundas have joined the Board of The
Francis Crick Institute as independent directors and trustees.
Lynne Gailey currently sits on the University College London
Hospitals (UCLH) Charitable Foundation Development Board giving
strategic communications advice to the chief executive and tactical
communications support to the fundraising team. She was
formerly Global Communications Leader for GE Healthcare
responsible for reputation and image.
Previously Lynne spent more than three years as Director of
Corporate Affairs at Amersham plc with responsibility for all
aspects of communications including media relations, public affairs
and internal communications. Lynne received a PhD in Chemistry and
a degree in Chemistry from Leeds University.
Lynne said: “I’m delighted to join the Board of The Francis
Crick Institute. The Institute will bring together
researchers from different disciplines to find new ways to tackle
some of the biggest health challenges facing us today. I look
forward to working with the other members of the Board, the Crick
team and the scientists at the founding institutes and academic
partners.”
Jamie Dundas is Chairman of Jupiter Fund Management plc and a
non-executive Director of Standard Chartered plc, where he chairs
the Board Risk Committee. After being called to the Bar, he began
his career at Morgan Grenfell, where he spent 19 years. He was
Finance Director of the Hong Kong Airport Authority from 1992 to
1996 when the Authority financed and built Hong Kong's new
international airport. He then joined the commercial property
company MEPC, where from 1997 to 2003 he was first Finance Director
and then Chief Executive. In the voluntary sector, he was Chairman
of Macmillan Cancer Support from 2001 to 2010, and continues to
serve as the charity's Deputy President. He is a former
non-executive director of J Sainsbury plc and Drax plc.
Jamie said: “I am very pleased to join the Board of this
ambitious Institute which aims to become one of the world's leading
biomedical research institutions and will be a UK-based centre of
excellence in a field of great global significance.”
The Chairman of The Francis Crick Institute Sir David Cooksey
said: “The skill and expertise that both Lynne Gailey and Jamie
Dundas will bring to the Institute’s Board will help to deliver
this extraordinary biomedical research centre. Lynne’s
strategic understanding of corporate communications and Jamie’s
leadership experience in major projects, as well as his financial
and legal background will be of enormous value to the Board and the
Institute. I look forward to working with them both.”
The Francis Crick Institute, due to open in 2015, is a charity
supported by Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council, the
Wellcome Trust and UCL (University College London), Imperial
College London and King’s College London. It will be a world-class
medical research centre with a strong national role — training
scientists and developing ideas for public good.