The UK Biobank Audit and Risk Committee is responsible for keeping under review the adequacy and effectiveness of the organisation’s controls and risk management systems.
Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee
Bernard Taylor CVO, CBE, DL chairs the UK Biobank Audit and Risk Committee.
Bernard is a British scientist who has worked in the manufacturing industry and corporate finance at a senior level for many years. He became an Honorary Fellow of St John’s in 2008 and is Deputy Steward of the University of Oxford. He has been a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire since 2011 and was appointed CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2017 for services to business, education and the arts.
He is currently Chairman of Thomas White Oxford Limited, responsible for delivering Oxford North, the new global life sciences district for Oxford.
Bernard is on the Board of the Medical Sciences Division and the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.

Committee Members