Nick Seddon
Nick Seddon MBE (b.1978) is a British political policy adviser, businessman, and author. He served as a senior special adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron from May 2013 to 2016. Seddon was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is a Visiting Professor at the Imperial College London Institute of Global Health Innovation.[1]
Career
Since 2016 he has been an executive at Optum, United Health Group.[2] Seddon is CEO of Optum Genomics, having previously led product strategy and portfolio management for Optum.[3]
Before joining Optum, Seddon served as Senior Special Adviser for Health and Life Sciences to Prime Minister David Cameron from May 2013 to 2016. In this capacity, he played an instrumental role in developing and implementing policies to ensure the long-term sustainability of the NHS. His focus areas included mental health, cancer, childhood obesity, and the 100,000 genome program.[4] During the UK's G8 presidency, he worked with the PM and other international stakeholders to bring the fight against dementia to the forefront of the global policy agenda.[5] He was said by the Health Service Journal to be the ninth most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013.[6]
Seddon was formerly deputy director of the pro-market think tank Reform[7] and has served as head of communications for Circle, then the UK's fastest growing healthcare company.[8] Seddon has authored many articles in national newspapers and journals, and has appeared frequently on television and radio.[9]
He was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School in Birmingham and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and earned a first-class degree.
Publications
- 2000 Figures of Speech: An Anthology of Magdalene Writers with MEJ Hughes and John Mole (Magdalene College, University of Cambridge)
- 2007 Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (Civitas)
References
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- Joe Haines
- John Harris
- Tony Kerpel
- Brian Abel-Smith
- Joe Haines
- Jack Straw
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- Tom McCaffrey
- Jack Straw
- Guy Black
- Chris Butler
- Michael Dobbs
- Andrew Dunlop
- Brian Griffiths
- Jonathan Hill
- John Hoskyns
- Bernard Ingham
- Henry James
- Tony Kerpel
- Oliver Letwin
- Peter Levene
- David Lidington
- Warwick Lightfoot
- Ferdinand Mount
- The Lord Norton
- Michael Palliser
- Jack Peel
- John Redwood
- Norman Stone
- Sir Cyril Taylor
- Anthony Teasdale
- Nicholas True
- Alan Walters
- David Willetts
- John Whittingdale
- David Wolfson
- John Bercow
- Norman Blackwell
- Jonathan Caine
- David Cameron
- Judith Chaplin
- Greg Clark
- Sir Peter de la Billière
- Daniel Finkelstein
- Jonathan Hill
- Sarah Hogg
- Tony Kerpel
- Warwick Lightfoot
- Christopher Meyer
- Gus O'Donnell
- George Osborne
- Patrick Rock
- David Ruffley
- Sir Cyril Taylor
- Anthony Teasdale
- Nicholas True
- Gerald Warner
- Peter Wyman
- Andrew Adonis
- Tim Allan
- Jonathan Ashworth
- Ed Balls
- Hilary Benn
- David Bennett
- Tom Bentley
- Andy Burnham
- Alastair Campbell
- Matt Cavanagh
- Paul Corrigan
- Patrick Diamond
- Jo Dipple
- Michael Dugher
- Stephen Hale
- The Lord Hart of Chilton
- David Hill
- Anji Hunter
- Tom Kelly
- Liz Kendall
- Peter Kyle
- Sophie Linden
- Spencer Livermore
- Liz Lloyd
- Blair McDougall
- Pat McFadden
- John McTernan
- David Miliband
- Ed Miliband
- Jo Moore
- Sally Morgan
- Geoff Mulgan
- Martin Narey
- Susan Nye
- Jonathan Powell
- Lance Price
- James Purnell
- Emma Reynolds
- Ed Richards
- Conor Ryan
- Godric Smith
- Owen Smith
- Simon Stevens
- Sir Cyril Taylor
- Matthew Taylor
- Shriti Vadera
- Charlie Whelan
- Sam White
- David Whitton
- Jonathan Ashworth
- Polly Billington
- Nick Butler
- Stephen Carter
- Matt Cavanagh
- Dan Corry
- Tony Danker
- Jo Dipple
- Michael Dugher
- Michael Ellam
- Ayesha Hazarika
- Jeremy Heywood
- Joe Irvin
- Simon Lewis
- Blair McDougall
- Damian McBride
- John McTernan
- David Muir
- Martin Narey
- Maajid Nawaz
- Susan Nye
- Tom Scholar
- Geoffrey Spence
- Sam White
- Stewart Wood
- Shaun Bailey
- Gabby Bertin
- Helen Bower
- Jonathan Caine
- Camilla Cavendish
- Ryan Coetzee
- Andy Coulson
- Dominic Cummings
- Oliver Dowden
- Catherine Fall
- Simone Finn
- Sam Freedman
- Julian Glover
- Julia Goldsworthy
- Jean-Christophe Gray
- Rupert Harrison
- Arminka Helic
- Nick Hillman
- Steve Hilton
- Richard Holden
- Jo Johnson
- Daniel Korski
- Edward Llewellyn
- Poppy Mitchell-Rose
- Martin Narey
- Henry Newman
- Jonny Oates
- Neil O'Brien
- James O'Shaughnessy
- Craig Oliver
- Stephen Parkinson
- Richard Reeves
- Willie Rennie
- Patrick Rock
- Elizabeth Sanderson
- Nick Seddon
- Salma Shah
- Eleanor Shawcross
- Sarah Southern
- Philippa Stroud
- Liz Sugg
- Alison Suttie
- Carrie Symonds
- Nick Timothy
- James Wild
- Graeme Wilson
- Sean Worth
- Helen Bower
- The Lord Caine
- Nick de Bois
- David Frost
- Robbie Gibb
- Paul Harrison
- Fiona Hill
- Richard Holden
- Paul Holmes
- Charlotte Ivers
- Stewart Jackson
- James Kent
- Danny Kruger
- Lizzie Loudon
- Anthony Mangnall
- James Marshall
- Jamie Njoku-Goodwin
- Stephen Parkinson
- Joanna Penn
- Katie Perrior
- The Lord Randall of Uxbridge
- Elizabeth Sanderson
- Salma Shah
- Carrie Symonds
- Will Tanner
- Nick Timothy
- Will Walden
- James Wild
- Craig Williams
- Steve Barclay
- John Bew
- Liam Booth-Smith
- Lee Cain
- David Canzini
- Peter Cardwell
- Henry Cook
- Dominic Cummings
- Nikki da Costa
- Jack Doyle
- The Baroness Finn
- Benjamin Gascoigne
- Andrew Griffith
- Guto Harri
- Andrew Hood
- Simon Jupp
- Ross Kempsell
- Oliver Lewis
- Edward Lister
- Munira Mirza
- Tim Montgomerie
- Henry Newman
- Jamie Njoku-Goodwin
- Ed Oldfield
- Charlotte Owen
- Rob Oxley
- Dan Rosenfield
- James Slack
- Allegra Stratton
- Cleo Watson
- Shelley Williams-Walker
- John Bew
- David Canzini
- Mark Fullbrook
- Ross Kempsell
- Ruth Porter
- Adam Jones
- Charlotte Owen
- Matthew Sinclair
- Reuben Solomon
- John Bew
- Liam Booth-Smith
- Nerissa Chesterfield
- Amber de Botton
- James Forsyth
- Andrew Hood
- Henry Newman
- Eleanor Shawcross-Wolfson
- Will Tanner
- ^ "Institute of Global Health Innovation". Imperial College London. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "@n_seddon" on Twitter
- ^ "Institute of Global Health Innovation". Imperial College London. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Grose, Thomas (25 June 2018). "The Next Wave of Brain Research". AARP. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "Institute of Global Health Innovation". Imperial College London. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "HSJ100 2013 The annual list of the most influential people in health". Health Service Journal. 11 December 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ "Stephen Hawking: NHS is Britain's finest public service and must be preserved from commercial interests". The Independent. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 2022-06-20. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ Seddon, Nick (2007). Who Cares? (PDF). Author: Civitas. p. vii.
- ^ "Institute of Global Health Innovation". Imperial College London. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
External links
Nick Seddon's articles:
- for the Health Service Journal
- for the Guardian