Beth leads Wellcome’s Policy team to shape global environments where research can thrive and its benefits reach people quickly. Before this, Beth led Wellcome's UK & EU policy and advocacy activity and she was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to science for work on EU privacy law. She gained a PhD from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2008. ● Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-thompson-mbe/