New independent Board members appointed

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.

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