Beth Thompson

Dr Beth Thompson is Wellcome’s Executive Director of Policy & Partnerships, responsible for the work of the policy and government relations and strategic partnerships teams. Beth joined Wellcome in 2009, where her previous roles have included leading Wellcome’s global policy work in mental health, infectious disease and climate and health, and science policy and advocacy activities in the UK and EU. In 2017 Beth was awarded an MBE for successfully advocating against amendments to the EU GDPR that would have been severely damaging for research. Beth holds a PhD from the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.