Professor Neil Squires is Director of Global Public Health at Public Health England, and former Head of Health at the UK Department for International Development. He is Visiting Professor of Global Public Health at Lincoln University, International Registrar at the UK Faculty of Public Health, and Board Member and Chair of the Governance Committee of the Malaria Consortium, an international Non-Government Organisation. A medical doctor, Neil has served as a District Medical Officer in Malawi, has lived and worked in Bangladesh and Mozambique and worked for the European Commission developing the EU Strategy on the Global Health workforce.