“The problem of poor vision has gone unnoticed for too long - it's astounding that 700 years after glasses were first invented, there are still 2.5 billion people across the world without access to something as simple as eye screening or a pair of glasses.”

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.