Visiting Professor of Advocacy for Children and Childhood at Nottingham Trent University; Professor Emeritus of Child Health at University College London

Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green trained in medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London and in paediatric endocrinology at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. He gained a D.Phil on the mechanism of insulin secretion at the University of Oxford.

He was Clinical Lecturer first in adult medicine and then in Paediatrics at the University of Oxford; he was elected Fellow of Green College and promoted University Lecturer in Paediatrics; he was then James Spence Professor of Child Health and Head of Clinical Sciences at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; followed by Nuffield Professor of Child Health at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, and first Board level Executive Director of Clinical R&D at Great Ormond Steet Hospital for Children, London.

He was the first National Clinical Director for Children in Government in the Department of Health in London, then first Children’s Commissioner for England; he was elected President of the British Medical Association. He was also Chair of the Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education and member of the Archbishop’s Education Board.

He is now Professor Emeritus of Child Health, University College London and Visiting Professor in Advocacy for Children and Childhood in Nottingham Trent University.

He has over 300 publications on metabolic and endocrine diseases and political policy for children and is author of the award winning and best-selling book ‘The British Betrayal of Childhood’.

He has many national and international indicators of esteem including the James Spence Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath, the Andrea Prader Medal of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and the Lifetime Achievement Award by Congenital Hyperinsulinism International.

He was knighted by HM Queen Elizabeth in 2006 for his services to children and young people.