Meet Your Expert Course Director

Benedict Stanberry

Benedict Stanberry has held healthcare-related positions in legal practice, academia, management consulting and politics as well as being a senior executive in a number of healthcare organisations.

Originally trained as a lawyer, Ben has both bachelors and masters degrees in law, was a faculty member of both the law school and business school at Cardiff University and was named Welsh Lawyer of the Year in recognition of his healthcare advisory work with the Welsh Assembly Government and European Union.

Following a move to management consulting in 2001, Ben led the provision of healthcare advisory services to numerous public and private sector organisations and worked extensively with the institutions of the European Union, the European Space Agency and the World Health Organisation. He was an adviser to several government health ministries and interim chief executive of a Brussels-based NGO.

Ben was elected to local government in London in May 2006, where his role included the overview and scrutiny of the capital’s healthcare services. In October of that year, he was appointed commercial and legal director of one of the UK’s leading providers of outsourced diagnostic services.

In 2008, Ben was awarded an MBA scholarship by Henley Management College, one of the world’s top business schools.

Since October 2009, Ben has been a consultant and advisor to numerous healthcare organisations in the Middle East – including the UAE Ministry of Health – and has delivered executive education and training to all levels of healthcare managers and clinicians in the region.

Ben is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Member of the Institute of Directors. He is a frequent speaker at both national and international healthcare events and has written numerous books, book chapters and journal articles on healthcare strategy and management.