Roy Anderson

Sir Roy Anderson is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign member of both France and the United States' national science academies. At London's Imperial College he holds a Chair in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, and is director of the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease. He is also a director of GlaxoSmithKline, and a trustee of the Natural History Museum. He sits on the science and technology advisory boards of a number of Southeast Asian countries. Sir Roy's former positions include Rector of Imperial College, and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence in the UK.