Mr Howard Lyons

ICMDA World Congress 2023 – Arusha Tanzania

How does one intentionally grow as a leader within healthcare?

Howard Lyons CBE

Howard started his career in healthcare management in 1972 in the British National Health Service becoming Chief Executive of the Chelsea & Westminster Teaching Hospital in Central London. After ten years, he left the NHS to work internationally in management and consultancy in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Far East for clients such as the World Bank, UN and African Development Bank as well as national government agencies, private hospitals, commercial organisations and a large number of teaching hospitals and health authorities. He has been Managing Director of a large hospital management company and Partner in a leading management consultancy firm.

In 2012, he was appointed to be the first Managing Director of Healthcare UK which was established by the British Government following the London Olympic Games to encourage and enable public and private sector organisations to share their expertise in healthcare in countries such as China, India, Brazil and the Middle East.

He retired in 2016 and is currently Treasurer of the UK’s Christian Medical Fellowship and on the Board of ICMDA since 2018. He was made Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours for services to healthcare management. He is married to Maura who was born in Zambia and has three grown-up children and three grandchildren.