Lord Ara Darzi of Denham is Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery. Named in TIME100 Health 2025, he is an internationally recognised academic, surgeon, and leader in global health policy. He is also a former UK Health Minister (2007-09).
In his role as Executive Chair of the Fleming Initiative, Professor Darzi leads a global movement to combat antimicrobial resistance. In 2024, he led the Independent Investigation of the NHS in England. He is a consultant surgeon and is Executive Chair of the World Innovation Summit for Health and the Pre-emptive Health & Medicine Initiative at Flagship Pioneering.
A Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, he was knighted in 2002, introduced to the House of Lords in 2007, appointed to His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in 2009, and awarded the prestigious Order of Merit in 2016.