Biography

Baroness Nicola Blackwood has been a member of the Supervisory Board at BioNTech since 2023. She has been Chair of Genomics England since 2020 and Chair of Oxford University Innovation since 2021. She is a member of the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the parliament of the United Kingdom (UK). Blackwood was elected Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon 2010 to 2017 and served as Minister for Innovation at the UK Department of Health and Social Care from 2016 to 2017 and 2019 to 2020 where she led on life sciences, NHS data and digital transformation and global health security. Amongst other roles, she was Chair of the technical regulator, the Human Tissue Authority, as well as a Chair of the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee and a member of the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee. Nicola Blackwood was educated at Trinity College of Music, London, St Anne’s College, Oxford, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.