LIDA Senior Management Team
LIDA Senior Management Team
The LIDA Senior Management Team supports the LIDA Director in executive decision-making and operational matters and is responsible for:
- Determining and delivering LIDA’s Business Plan
- Managing LIDA’s financial performance
- Ensuring engagement with external partners and agencies
- Overseeing operational management of LIDA staff, finance, information, IT, estates and health and safety
- Monitoring the effective implementation of Information Governance processes and procedures

Professor Mark Birkin
LIDA Co-Director, ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre and Professor of Spatial Analysis & Policy, School of Geography and Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute.

Professor Sir Alex Markham
LIDA Co-Director, MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre Director & Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine.

Professor Chris Gale
LIDA Co-Director, Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM).

Dominic Frankis
LIDA Director of Operations
d.frankis@leeds.ac.uk


Monica Jones
Chief Data Officer: HDRUK Hub for Cancer DATA-CAN
Associate Director: HDRUK North Better Care Partnership
Executive Lead: YHCR Population Health Management
m.c.m.jones@leeds.ac.uk

Professor Roy Ruddle
LIDA Deputy Director: Research Technology, Professor of Computing, School of Computing

Gary Cartwright - LIDA Finance Manager
Responsible for monitoring and reporting on the financial performance and sustainability of LIDA to the Senior Management Team.

Professor Geoff Hall
Professor of Digital Health and Cancer Medicine
Clinical Lead for DATA-CAN

Professor Dave Westhead
Professor of Bioinformatics
Turing University Lead
Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute
d.r.westhead@leeds.ac.uk