Matthew GOULD

Matthew is currently CEO of the Zoological Society of London, a conservation charity which runs London and Whipsnade Zoos, a global network of conservation projects, and the scientific Institute of Zoology.

As CEO of NHSX Matthew led the digital transformation of health and care in England. His team helped the NHS through the pandemic by developing the NHS Datastore, allowing the crisis to be managed using real-time data, and built the award-winning NHS Covid Pass.

He was previously the Government’s first Director General for Digital and Media at DCMS, the Government’s cyber security director, and Britain’s Ambassador to Israel, where he built an ambitious programme of scientific collaboration on regenerative medicine.