Sir Chris Ham CBE DL (born 15 May 1951),[1] is a health policy academic who started life as a political scientist.
He was seconded to the Department of Health where he was Director of the Strategy Unit working with Alan Milburn and John Reid until 2004.
[2] He was said to be "unrivalled in his ability to distil and synthesise complex policy developments and present them in a clear and digestible manner for non-specialists" in 1999.
He was said by the Health Service Journal to be the 38th most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013.
He was appointed as independent chair of the Coventry and Warwickshire sustainability and transformation partnership in January 2019.