“In the case of health information, I spent twenty-five years practicing medicine, and I was all too familiar with the fact that information wasn't properly shared, so I wouldn't know exactly what was in the hospital records; patients would be lost. Computerization gives the opportunity to actually get the information much better.”

British medical scientist

Sir Mark Jeremy Walport is a British medical scientist. He served as the United Kingdom’s Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2013 to 2017 and later became Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation, or UKRI, from 2017 to 2020. In 2023, he became Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. His public work has centred on science policy and research leadership, moving between government and national scientific institutions.