Jonathan Montgomery
British legal scholar
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Sir Jonathan Robert Montgomery is a British legal scholar who specialises in health care law. He is Professor of Health Care Law at UCL Faculty of Laws.[1]
Jonathan Montgomery | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jonathan Montgomery |
| Board member of | Non-Executive Director, Health Data Research UK. Chair, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Academic background | |
| Education | King's College School, Wimbledon |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | Health care law |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Notable works | Health Care Law (Oxford University Press 2nd ed 2002). |
| Website | www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/people/jonathan-montgomery |
Professor Montgomery has chaired many national and international bodies. He was chair of the Human Genetics Commission from 2009 until 2012.[2] He was chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the leading UK bioethics committee, from 2012 to 2017.[3] He was also Chair of the Health Research Authority from 2012[4] until September 2019.[5]
In March 2017, he became a member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE), which is the leading European bioethics. committee[6] He is a regular contributor to items in the media, including the BBC[7][8][9] and broadsheet newspapers,[10] and has given evidence to the UK Parliament.[11]
Since 1 April 2019, he has been Chair of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[12]
He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Bioethics and to Healthcare Law.
Books
- Health Care Law (2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2002)[13]