Simon Stevens

The Right Honourable The Lord Stevens of Birmingham Kt
Official portrait, 2021
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal, Chair of the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency; Chair of Cancer Research UK; Chair-designate of King's College London
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2021 Life peerage
Chief Executive of NHS England
In office 1 April 2014 – 31 July 2021
Preceded by	Sir David Nicholson
Succeeded by	Amanda Pritchard
Lambeth Borough Councillor for Angell Ward, Brixton
In office 7 May 1998 – 2 May 2002
Personal details
Born	Simon Laurence Stevens (1966-08-04) 4 August 1966 (age 57) Shard End, Birmingham, England
Political party	None (crossbencher) (2021–present)
Other political affiliations	None - previously Labour Party
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford (MA) University of Strathclyde (MBA)
Awards	Knight Bachelor

Simon Laurence Stevens, Baron Stevens of Birmingham (born 4 August 1966) is Chair of the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency,^[1] Chair of Cancer Research UK,^[2] Chair-designate of King's College London,^[3] and an independent member of the House of Lords. Stevens previously served as the eighth Chief Executive of NHS England from 2014 to 2021.^[4] Earlier in his career he worked in the Prime Minister's Office at 10 Downing Street, as well as internationally, including Guyana, Malawi, and the United States. He was a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics from 2004 to 2008.