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Parliamentary Reception speaker profile: Roz Campion

By September 16, 2024No Comments

BIVDA are delighted to welcome expert speakers to our Parliamentary Reception on 30th October, including Lord Darzi, Saghar Missaghian-Cully and Roz Campion. We are profiling all of our speakers in the lead-up to the event, with the latter the subject of this week’s profile.

Roz is the Director of the Office for Life Sciences in the UK Government. OLS is a joint unit which is part of the Department for Health and Social Care and the Department for Science Innovation and Technology. OLS brings together government, the NHS, academia and industry to drive improvements in patient outcomes and economic growth through its support for the life sciences sector. Roz joined OLS in November 2021.

Roz began her career as a solicitor working in the City before moving into government. Within government she has extensive experience of working on social and economic policy issues, with roles spanning the setting up and running of the Sentencing Council, to leadership roles in the Cabinet Office, the Home Office and in the Department of International Trade. She spent a number of years working as a diplomat in Washington DC and Tokyo.

Ben Kemp