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).

Professor Mark Gilthorpe
LIDA Deputy Director: Research & Innovation, Professor of Statistical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine and Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute.

Dr Luke Burns
LIDA Deputy Director: Education & Training, Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography, School of Geography

Dr George Ellison
LIDA Deputy Director: Education & Training, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine.

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