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PROFESSOR DAME LESLEY REGAN

Professor Dame Lesley Regan is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Wellbeing of Women, Secretary General of FIGO (the International Federation of Gynaecology & Obstetrics) and a member of the NHS Assembly. She was the 30th President (2016-2019) of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, only the second woman to ever hold this role and the first in sixty-four years. In December 2019 she launched “Better for Women”, an RCOG report which champions menstrual health, period problems and poverty issues.

Professor Regan is Professor of Obstetrics at Imperial College London and Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St Mary's Hospital; she is also director of Women's Health Research Centre, co-director of the UK Pregnancy Baby Bio Bank and co-Chair of the People and Culture Committee (Athena SWAN) for the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction.

Having graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, in 1980 Professor Regan pursued her career at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, where she first became enthused by clinical and laboratory research, completing an MD on miscarriage. In 2015 she received an Honorary Fellowship of the American College and a Doctorate of Science from University College London for the contribution to women's health.

Professor Regan was awarded a DBE for her services to women’s health in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List.

Professor Regan was appointed as the Women’s Health Ambassador in June, to help drive system-level changes to close the gender health gap.