Lord Crisp

Lord Crisp

Full title

The Lord Crisp KCB

Name

Edmund Crisp

Party/group

Crossbench

Joined the Lords

28 April 2006

Contact details

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 0207 219 5353
crisp@parliament.uk

Web & Social media

Biography

UK Parliament

Committee House Date
Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee Lords 2007-09

Professional life

Job title Organisation Date
Chief Executive NHS 2000-06
Permanent Secretary Department of Health 2000-06

Public life

Post Organisation Date
Co-Chair Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance 2009-
Chair Sightsavers 2007-

Member's focus

Policy
Culture, media and sport
Health services and medicine
Global health.
World
India
Africa.

Register of Interests

  • 1: Directorships

    • Director (with wife) of Global HDE Ltd (publishing, research and consultancy in Health, Design and Education). This company's activities include dealing with those aspects of the Member's business and voluntary activities not covered in other categories below. Paid contracts mainly or wholly delivered by Member are with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (chairing a review of the Portuguese NHS; Institute for Healthcare Improvement (acting as adviser to Chief Executive on Global Health Strategy); Doctors.Net UK (as member of Advisory Board); KPMG (speaking engagements and advisory work up to 30 days a year outside UK; Harvard School of Public Health (advisory role at meeting of Health Ministers 4-6 June 2012 and 6-10 November 2012); HLSP in South Africa 5-6 November 2012; HLM Architects 20 November 2012; Diario Economico conference, Lisbon, 17 January 2013
  • 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

    • Income from occasional conferences and articles
    • Royalties from publication of a book on global health: “Turning the World Upside Down – the search for global health in the 21st century”
    • Royalties from publication of "24 Hours to save the NHS - the Chief Executive's account of reform 2000-2006" (OUP)
  • 4: Shareholdings (a)

    • The Member and his wife are majority shareholders of Global HDE Ltd (consultants in Health, Design and Education - see category 1))
  • 6: Sponsorship

    • Support is received from Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance for a parliamentary researcher
  • 7: Overseas visits

    • Visit to Portugal with wife, 21-25 June 2012, for International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth Ambassadors ' meeting and meetings at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on the Portuguese NHS; travel and accommodation costs met by hosts
    • Visit to Zambia 30 October - 5 November 2012; accomodation and some other expenses paid by Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance
    • Visit to Washington DC, 16-19 November 2012, to attend Neglected Tropical Diseases Conference on behalf of Sightsavers; travel and part of accommodation paid by Sightsavers International
    • Visit to Boston, Mass, USA, 25 February - 1 March 2013, to attend conference; travel, accomodation and honorarium paid by Novartis
  • 10: Non-financial interests (b)

    • Member of Court and Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
    • Chair, Advisory Board, King’s Centre for Global Health
  • 10: Non-financial interests (e)

    • Chair of Trustees, Sightsavers International
    • Co-Chair, Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance
    • Trustee, RAND Europe
    • Global Ambassador, Global Health Workforce Alliance
    • Ambassador, Archbishop Tutu's Global eHealth Ambassador Programme
    • Co-chair designate, Uganda UK Health Alliance
    • Member of Advisory Board, African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation