Security, sharing and trust panel discussion

Jack Halligan has almost 10 years’ healthcare experience in Ireland, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, working across clinical medicine, healthcare technology and in management consulting with McKinsey & Company.

At Imperial, he works closely with digital health innovators in the day-to-day development and delivery of policy and research projects, including as co-author on the 2020 white paper NHS data: Maximising its impact on the health and wealth of the United Kingdom.

Jack studied medicine in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France.

Natalie Banner leads Understanding Patient Data (UPD), an initiative hosted at Wellcome to ensure uses of patient data for care and research are visible, understandable and trustworthy.

UPD works with patients, charities, researchers and health professionals to champion responsible uses of data, feeding into policy development, creating accessible resources and horizon scanning for emerging issues that may affect public confidence in the use of health data. This includes exploring how to create trustworthy frameworks for developing data-driven technologies in healthcare and research.

Natalie formerly led Wellcome’s policy work on GDPR and data protection, seeking to ensure UK legislation and regulation creates a supportive environment for health research using patient and health-related data. In 2018, she was named in BioBeat’s “50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness”. Prior to joining Wellcome, Natalie was a postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy at King’s College London.

Benoît Marchal has an IT Master Degree from the University of Technology of Compiegne (France) and has more than 25 years’ experience leading various digitalization projects to improve and streamline the clinical research process.

Before joining Roche, Benoît created and managed the startup NovaXon that provided solutions to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to collect clinical data.

Most recently, he took the position of Roche representative in the industry collaboration EHR4CR and became a strong advocate both internally and externally of the potential of hospital real world data to support medical research. Benoît is presently the project manager of PEPS (Patient Empowered, Privacy Secured), a project to enable privacy safe direct communication with patients through Blockchain.

Caroline Rivett is fascinated by the opportunities presented by technology in life sciences and healthcare, marrying her background in biological sciences, her board work in health and years of experience in technology risk. She is a member of the RSM’s Digital Health Council.

Caroline works closely with KPMG's clients in Life Sciences and Healthcare helping them to manage their cybersecurity and privacy risks to protect sensitive information and processes and facilitate more effective use of data. Prior to her global role with KPMG, she co-founded and sold a health informatics company that analysed individuals' medical records on behalf of UK life insurers and worked for six months as a CISO in a UK multinational conglomerate.

She has worked in healthcare and life sciences as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee for eight years. She regularly speaks in industry conferences on security and privacy in Life Sciences and Healthcare using her experiences in risk. Her specific interests relate to technology, health, and business growth, covering areas such as digital health, big data, privacy, cybersecurity, cultural change, and technology assurance, and lives in north London with her two children.

Deeph Chana is Professor of Practice at Imperial College Business School and Co-Director of Imperial’s Institute for Security Science and Technology. 

He has a diverse portfolio of advanced STEM research and development experience within government, industry and academia and has led numerous national security programmes working for the UK Government. 

Geoffrey Goodell is a researcher in the Financial Computing and Analytics Group of the Department of Computer Science at University College London.  

He leads the ISO working group responsible for international standards for the foundations of distributed ledger technology, and he is also an associate of the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs at the University of Oxford. He is also an experienced entrepreneur and portfolio manager.

He started his career as an associate in corporate credit and structured products at Goldman Sachs in New York and was later partner and chief investment officer of a boutique asset manager in Boston. His doctoral dissertation involved distributed systems and his current research lies at the interface of computer science, finance, and public policy, particularly with respect to digital marketplaces, digital payment systems, and regulation.  

Recently he has worked with central banks around the world to analyse the privacy and trust features of digital currency architectures.