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Sir Michael Jacobs appointed to Board of Law Commission

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Sir Michael Jacobs has been appointed as a non-executive board member of the Law Commission. He will join the existing NEBMs, Clare Bassett and Dr Hannah White.

He will be appointed for three years from 1 March 2027.

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Jacobs is an Infectious Diseases specialist and former Clinical Director of Infection at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, where he helped establish an internationally recognised centre of excellence. He played a central role in the UK response to the 2013–16 West Africa Ebola outbreak, leading the clinical team that treated Ebola patients in the UK. In 2020, the same team cared for some of the first COVID-19 patients in the country. He has served on, and chaired, numerous national and international advisory committees on dangerous viral infections and was NHS England Programme Director for High Consequence Infectious Diseases. In 2016, he was knighted for services to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Most recently, he was Warden (Head) of Keble College, Oxford and served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Deputy Chair of the Conference of Colleges