Richard Horton, OBE, FRCPCH, FMedSci

Richard Horton is the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet. He graduated in physiology and medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1986 and joined The Lancet in 1990, becoming North American Editor in 1993. Horton has chaired global health commissions and co-chaired the UN’s Expert Review Group on Women’s and Children’s Health. He has received numerous awards, including the Friendship Award from China (2015) and the WHO Director-General’s Health Leaders Award (2019). He is a Foreign Associate of the US Institute of Medicine and advocates for planetary health. Horton authored The COVID-19 Catastrophe (2020), with a second edition released in 2021, and was awarded an OBE in 2023 for services to health and medical journalism.