Tom Kibasi

Tom took up the role of Executive Director of Strategy on 15 May 2025.

He has over 20 years’ experience working in the healthcare sector.

He was previously Executive Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research. While at IPPR, Tom founded and chaired the Commission on Economic Justice and a major review into the future funding of the NHS which helped to secure the multi-year funding settlement.

Tom co-founded the non-profit Innovations in Healthcare which supports social entrepreneurs around the world.

He spent many years at McKinsey & Company where he was a partner in the healthcare practice in London and New York and focused on improving the integration of care.

During his career, Tom has worked in 20 health systems and for international organisations including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Early in his career, Tom worked at the Department of Health as Senior Policy Adviser to the NHS Chief Executive.

He led the team that developed the integrated care pilot for elderly people and people with diabetes and the Better Health for London report of the London Health Commission.

Tom provided expert advice and support to the Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting’s reform agenda, including drafting the 10 Year Health Plan.

He also led the drafting and directed the analysis for Lord Ara Darzi’s independent investigation into the state of the NHS, which reported in September 2024, as well as drafting High Quality Care for All in 2008.

He has served as chair-in-common of the 3 mental health and community NHS organisations in north-west London, leading the charge to improve their quality of care and to help keep patients well in the community, having joined the board of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in 2016.