Professor Emeritus of Reproductive Medicine at the University of Oxford
Graduated from Keble College, Oxford, in Experimental Psychology, and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, United Kingdom
Alongside his clinical work, and as a non-clinician, he made his way up the research ladder and was appointed Professor of Reproductive Medicine in 2011
He was head of the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for 15 years, which has now been renamed Women's and Reproductive Health
Google Scholar ranks him as the most highly cited scholar, and some of his papers are citation classics
His research has had a real clinical and public health impact, one such prodigious effort that he spearheaded is the International Fetal and Newborn Growth Consortium for the 21st Century, or INTERGROWTH-21st, a global multidisciplinary network of more than 300 researchers and clinicians from 27 institutions in 18 countries worldwide