Dame Catherine Elizabeth Bingham was born on 19 October 1965 and is a British venture capitalist, who is a managing partner at a venture capital firm, SV Health Investors.
17 Facts About Kate Bingham
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In 2020, Kate Bingham chaired the government's Vaccine Taskforce, steering procurement of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
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Kate Bingham was born in London, the only daughter of the barrister and judge Tom Kate Bingham and Elizabeth and the eldest of their three children.
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Kate Bingham attended St Paul's Girls' School, London, before going on to study at the University of Oxford where she was an undergraduate student of Christ Church, Oxford.
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Kate Bingham then pursued further studies at Harvard Business School, taking the degree of MBA.
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Kate Bingham has an honorary doctorate from Imperial College London.
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Kate Bingham worked in business development for Vertex Pharmaceuticals and consultants Monitor Company before joining Schroder Ventures in 1991.
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Kate Bingham became a managing partner specializing in biotechnology, and has served on the boards of companies in the UK, US, Ireland, Sweden and Germany.
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Kate Bingham serves on the boards of the Francis Crick Institute and the British government's Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
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In May 2020, Kate Bingham was appointed chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, without a competitive recruitment process.
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In 2016, Kate Bingham received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath.
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Kate Bingham was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for "services to the procurement, manufacture and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines", Bingham was admitted to the Freedom of the City of London in that year.
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Kate Bingham was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering later the same year.
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Kate Bingham is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and holds honorary fellowships from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and the British Pharmacological Society.
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Kate Bingham has expressed views on how the UK covid vaccination programme could have been better run, and on how UK potential in life sciences could be improved.
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Kate Bingham published her account of the seven months she spent chairing the Vaccine Taskforce in her book The Long Shot, in which she shared lessons for future pandemics and offered advice on how government could work more successfully with industry.
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Kate Bingham married Jesse Norman in 1992; the couple have two sons and a daughter.