Baroness Manningham-Buller LG DCB

Eliza Manningham-Buller is Co-president of Chatham House. She was Director-General of the UK Security Service (MI5) between 2002 and 2007 and became an independent life peer in 2008. She served as Chairman of the Council of Imperial College London from 2011 to 2015. She was a member of the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust from 2008 to 2021 and Chair of the Wellcome Trust’s Board of Governors from 2015 to 2021.

She has extensive knowledge of and experience in international security as well as a deep interest in medical research and global health.