Charity welcomes its new Trustees: Edward Jackson and Roger Kirby

Professor Roger Kirby MA MD FRCS (Urol)

Roger Kirby is the immediate past President of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, St John’s College, Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital, London. He qualified as a doctor with a distinction in surgery in 1975. He was appointed as a consultant to St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1986, moving 10 years later to St George’s Hospital, London SW17. During the latter part of his 30-year NHS career he was awarded a Chair of Urology in 2001 and was Director of Postgraduate Medical Education. He created, and was Director of, a thriving Urology Research Unit at St George’s and pioneered one of the first courses on patient safety there.

Professor Kirby was among the first in the UK to introduce radical surgery for prostate cancer and minimally invasive treatments including robot-assisted prostate surgery. Among his many pioneering initiatives has been the creation of The Prostate Centre in Wimpole St.

Professor Kirby was founder and Chairman of the charity Prostate UK/Prostate Action for 13 years, and continues to serve as Vice-President for Prostate Cancer UK. He is also a founding member and now President of The Urology Foundation (TUF).

 

Edward Jackson

Edward has a wealth of City experience spanning law, investment banking and investment disciplines.

He is currently employed at Pictet Group, a Swiss private bank, where he is responsible for UK Real Estate Investments for the bank’s value-add and core+ property strategies. He joined Pictet in 2019 and has made a number of investments in logistics, residential and office sectors.

Prior to Pictet, he was a Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked for nine years in mergers & acquisitions, and debt and equity capital markets. He acted for public companies and private equity funds in real estate, consumer beverage, healthcare and media industries across Western Europe.

Edward previously trained and qualified as a corporate lawyer at Clifford Chance, and also worked at Taylor Wessing and Weil Gotshal. In his eight years’ experience as a lawyer, he worked in London, Tokyo and New York.

Edward has advised pro bono at Battersea Legal Advice Centre, and is currently a mentor for Fairfield Enterprise, a charity providing specialist careers coaching to undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. Edward holds an LLB degree in Laws from University College London, and an MBA from INSEAD, where he was an IFS/Henry Grunfeld Scholar.