Independent Non-Executive Director. Professor Anderson is the Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London and, until 30 September 2007, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom. It was announced on 21 June 2007 that Professor Anderson will succeed Sir Richard Sykes as Rector of Imperial College in the summer of 2008.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine at the US National Academy of Sciences.
He has published over 450 scientific papers on the epidemiology, population biology, evolution and control of a wide variety of infectious disease agents, including HIV, BSE, vCJD, parasitic helminths and protozoa, and respiratory tract viral and bacterial infections.
His principal research interests are epidemiology, biomathematics, demography, parasitology, immunology and health economics. He also has a keen interest in science policy and the public understanding of science.
He received a Knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2006.
