In office: 2022 – 2026

University College London, UK

Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE  FMedSci  MBBS  BSc  FRCP  MD  FRSB  FFICM  FRI

Professor Hugh Montgomery obtained a first-class degree in cardiorespiratory physiology/neuropharmacology before graduating from the Middlesex Hospital Medical school in 1987. He has since gained accreditation in general internal medicine, cardiology and intensive care medicine, and practices as a consultant in intensive care at the Whittington hospital in North London.

Hugh obtained his research degree (MD) in 1997, and is Professor of Intensive Care at UCL, where he directed the Centre for Human Health and Performance. He also co-chairs the international Lancet Countdown, which tracks how climate change is affecting human health. Hugh’s interest has been in the use of environmental stressors in the exploration of human (patho)physiology – often using a genetic approach. He was the first to discover a ‘gene for human fitness’. He has published over 550 scientific articles, including five in Nature.

In 2022, Hugh was appointed Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) for services to intensive care medicine and climate change.