Jonathan Montgomery
Jonathan Montgomery | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jonathan Montgomery |
| Nationality | British |
| Board member of | Non-Executive Director, Health Data Research UK. Chair, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Academic background | |
| Education | King's College School, Wimbledon |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | Health care law |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Notable works | Health Care Law (Oxford University Press 2nd ed 2002). |
| Website | www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/people/jonathan-montgomery |
Sir Jonathan Robert Montgomery is a British legal scholar who specialises in health care law. He is Professor of Health Care Law at University College London.
Professor Montgomery was chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the leading UK bioethics committee, from 2012 to 2017. He was appointed Chair of the Health Research Authority in 2012. He was replaced by Professor Sir Terence Stephenson on 1 September 2019.
In March 2017 he became a member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE), which is the leading European bioethics committee He is a regular contributor to items in the media, including the BBC and broadsheet newspapers, and has given evidence to the UK Parliament.
In December 2018, he was appointed Chair of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Bioethics and to Healthcare Law.