Lord Jitesh Gadhia is an investment banker and businessman and Member of the House of Lords since 2016. He is a board member of UK Government Investments, the centre of excellence for corporate finance and governance for the UK Government and serves on the boards of BGL, which owns comparethemarket.com, Accord Healthcare, a leading supplier of generic pharmaceuticals and Calisen plc, a FTSE250 company, which owns and manages smart meters.He was a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and has over 25 years’ financial services experience, including at Barclays Capital, ABN AMRO and Barings. He has advised on high-profile M&A transactions across developed and emerging markets, including the largest investment flows between UK and India. Lord Gadhia is a member of UK-India CEO Forum. He graduated from Cambridge University and attended the London Business School as a Sloan Fellow.
Dr Bharat Pankhania has widespread experience of advising on national communicable disease control action plans at national and international level. As a senior Consultant in Communicable Disease Control,
Dr Pankhania coordinated complex and very sensitive look back exercises, where there had been laboratory errors or hospital exposure of patients to infections, these are major national exercises and very sensitive operations.
Dr Pankhania’s experience includes:
Pandemic Influenza outbreak planning and major plan testing exercises: Development of a web-based surveillance system for recording the first 500 plus cases of a pandemic, to quickly understand the new virus and thus better implement control measures. He was the local Lead for Pandemic Influenza planning at Public Health England and became the reference point for outbreak planning, testing systems and control strategies.
Ebola and SARS: Dr Pankhania was immersed in and contributed to the Ebola and SARS surveillance and control methodologies, specialist screening methods at ports of entry.
Dr Pankhania has worked in Public Health Medicine for over 25 years, he feels better health is often derived by a better-informed population, able to make their own judgements and decisions. TheTherefore,ucation is the main empowering agent for better health.
