Ajit is Chair of Infectious Diseases and Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Respiratory Infections Health Protection Research Unit at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

He is also Chair of Trustees at the Bromley-by-Bow centre which pioneered social prescribing, Governor of the Science Museum Group and Chair of the India Alliance Strategy Board, India’s most esteemed medical research funding organisation.

Ajit brings to the Board his commitment to improving wellbeing through social prescribing and active engagement in the performing arts.