Member of the Bioethics Council

Sir Jonathan Montgomery

Sir Jonathan Montgomery

Sir Jonathan Montgomery is Professor of Health Care Law at University College London.


He was chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the leading UK bioethics committee, from 2012 to 2017, Chair of the Health Research Authority for England from 2012 to 2019, and Chair of the UK Human Genetics Commission from 2009 to 2012. He has also served as a member of the European Group on Ethics (2017-19) and as non-executive director of Health Data Research UK (2017-21). Since April 2019 he has been Chair of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In 2019 he was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to Bioethics and to Healthcare Law. In 2021 he was elected to Fellowship of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences.


Sir Jonathan Montgomery received a BA and an LLM from the University of Cambridge.