Meet the board

The Board of Trustees carries responsibility for the statutory aspects of FMLM, including the management and audit of the organisation, directing the affairs of the organisation, and ensuring that it is solvent, well-run, and delivering the charitable objectives, which are to advance: 

"education and knowledge in the field of medical leadership and management and promote research in all aspects of the subject and to publish the useful results; and health through setting the highest professional standards and competences for medical leadership, management and quality improvement." 

Prof Sir Mayur Lakhani CBE – FMLM Chair  

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Mayur Lakhani is a practising GP Principal-Partner in Leicestershire where he has been in the same practice for 32 years. He is a Board Member and Chair of the Clinical Executive of NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care System. He was a senior clinician on the national covid clinical assessment service (CCAS) and was instrumental in setting up the local Covid Medicines Delivery Unit and has recently completed training to be a Medical Examiner (RCPathME). 

Sir Mayur is Fellow of three medical royal colleges and a Senior Founding Fellow of FMLM. He is one of only ten GPs to have been elected both Chair and President of the RCGP, the UK’s largest medical royal college. He is the principal author of the landmark document, The future direction of general practice: a roadmap where he first advocated the idea of federations, the forerunners of primary care networks. 

As former President of RCGP, he launched a dynamic President’s Listening Campaign to increase engagement and give a voice to under-represented GPs  including an epoch-making Black GPs initiative. He was Chair of the National Council for Palliative Care from 2008-2015 where he championed the cause of high-quality care at the end of life for all. He is now the Chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM)- re-elected in 2022.  He was knighted in January 2023 in the King’s first ever honours list.

Read more about Professor Sir Mayur Lakhani's epoch-making Black GPs initiative:   
Better for us all — recent learning on how the Royal College of General Practitioners can reduce racism - PMC (nih.gov)  

@DoctorMayur  

Mr Alastair Henderson - Trustee  

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges  

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Alastair Henderson retired as Chief Executive of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) in December 2023. He had served in this role since January 2010, during which time he played a significant part in shaping health policy and supporting the work of the Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties in the UK. His career also included various roles focused on workforce issues within the NHS, including positions at NHS Employers and the NHS Confederation. 

Prof Phil Kloer - Trustee  

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Professor Phil Kloer is a highly experienced healthcare leader currently serving as the Interim Chief Executive of Hywel Dda University Health Board in Wales. He stepped into this role in February 2024, bringing over a decade of experience at the executive level. His career within Hywel Dda began in 2005, where he has held various key positions, including Executive Director of Primary Care, Community, and Mental Health Services, as well as Medical Director and Deputy Chief Executive.

Phil Kloer trained as a respiratory physician, with extensive work experience in Wales, New Zealand, and England. He previously led the lung cancer service in West Wales and has been instrumental in several large-scale healthcare strategy developments, such as the "Transforming Clinical Services" programme in West Wales. He is also deeply involved in leadership development, having served as the Welsh lead for the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) and as a trustee for the FMLM charity. Additionally, he holds an honorary professorship at Swansea University Medical School.

@kloerp  

Mrs Nargis Ara-Ranaldi - Chair of the Finance Audit and Risk Committee and Lay Trustee  

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Nargis Ara-Ranaldi is a healthcare and pharmaceutical industry advisor and independent consultant. She specialises in medical affairs, medical governance, ethics & compliance and is an avid public healthcare ambassador. She has a special interest in digital healthcare and is an advocate of challenging the status quo to drive healthcare innovation and encourage progress.  

A UK registered pharmacist and RPS faculty certified mentor, Nargis’ career spans a broad range of healthcare sectors and organisations. She began her career as a clinical pharmacist within NHS hospitals and then moved into academic research and teaching. She later progressed into healthcare and business consulting, founded, and ran a small company, and eventually entered into leadership roles within corporate pharmaceutical. These included biotech companies and leading International functional groups at Baxalta, Inc., Stiefel, a GSK company, and AstraZeneca UK. She has also shaped service re-structures at AbbVie and a Nuffield hospital group, and managed GxP audits and regulatory inspections within the NHS and other healthcare/pharmaceutical sectors.  

Most recently Nargis has undertaken a variety of consultancy roles including providing leadership, direction and strategic input into International Medical Compliance activities at Evolus Pharma, Medical Affairs at Angelini Pharma and Global Medical Affairs at Brittania Pharmaceuticals Ltd, to name a few.  

Nargis is also a previous Trustee, now Medical Advisor to Connate Support, a medicines and birth defects community interest company and a Public Health Ambassador (PHA) promoting public health initiatives as a member of the Public Health Collaboration (PHC).  

Mr Mark Spragg - Lay Trustee  

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Mark worked as a criminal defence and civil litigation solicitor for over 40 years in some of the most interesting cases of the time, working hard to ensure a level playing field so all his clients had a fair trial.  

In 2017, he joined Medway NHS Foundation Trust as a non executive director becoming Senior Independent Director and Deputy Chair in April 2020. He is chair of the disciplinary panel of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments and has recently been appointed to the Conduct Committee of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He is involved with a number of charities.   

Mr David Bennett - Lay Trustee  

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David Bennett has extensive experience in strategy and operations having advised boards in the public and private sector as a management consultant and served as an executive on boards in the logistics and telecoms sectors. He was a partner in the strategy practice of Accenture and has worked across Western Europe, the US and in Asia. Dave was responsible for setting up NHS Supply Chain Ltd which provides logistics and procurement services to the NHS in England, sourcing more than £2bn in consumables and capital equipment annually.  

He was a Non-Executive Director on the board of The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 7 years and now serves in a similar capacity on the boards of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and the Mountbatten (Hospice) Group and is Chair of the YMCA-Fairthorne Group.  

Mr Tom Grinyer - Advisory role

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Mr Tom Grinyer is the Group Chief Executive Officer at the Institute of Physics.  

Tom began his career working as a Researcher for Saratoga Europe (now part of PWC). After two years he started working for the Civil and Public Services Association and also joined the House of Commons as a researcher for a recently elected MP. In 2000 Tom became Head of Campaigns for the Public and Commercial Services Union and in 2004 was promoted to Director of Communications responsible for the organisation’s communications and public affairs strategies. His remit in this role was to improve member engagement and the profile of the organisation, which saw a substantial increase in membership numbers.  

In 2010 Tom moved to the Royal College of Physicians, as Director of Communications and External Affairs. During 2013 he was interim Chief Executive and subsequently Tom’s role was expanded to that of Executive Director of Strategy, Communications and Policy in which he took on further responsibility for RCP’s business strategy; including its 500 year anniversary celebrations, patient inclusion and involvement and fundraising. Tom held responsibility for delivering high profile organisational targets and led the policy team in promotion of the RCP’s ‘Hospital on the Edge’ and ‘Future Hospital’ campaigns. He was the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Anaesthestists from July 2015 to July 2019 and Chief Executive Officer of the British Medical Association from 2019 to 2022.  

@TomGrinyer  

Articles of Association

The Articles of Association (currently under review) set out the rules governing the running of the charity. 

Code of conduct  

FMLM have adopted the Nolan principles which are the basis of the ethical standards expected of all office holders and all persons working in an official capacity on behalf of FMLM will adhere to, including Trustees, committees, members and staff. 

The Nolan Principles, also known as the Seven Principles of Public Life, were established to provide a framework for the ethical standards expected of public office holders. These principles are Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.

You can read more about the Nolan Principles on the UK government's official website here or the Committee on Standards in Public Life page here.