John Wyn Owen CB currently holds the post of Chairman of University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. Until his retirement he held the post of Secretary of the Nuffield Trust from 1st March 1997 to June 2005 having previously been Director-General of NSW Health in Australia and Chairman of the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council and, until 1994, Director of NHS Wales.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health; Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians; Companion of the Institute of Health Care Management and Chartered Management Institute; Fellow of the University of Wales Colleges, of the Australian College of Health Service Executives, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts; an Honorary Doctor of the University of Glamorgan and an Honorary Doctor of Science of City University London. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a non executive director of the Madariaga Foundation of the College of Europe, Trustee of the National Heart Forumand Non-Executive Director UK Health Protection Agency.
Previously a member of WHO Technical Committee on Globalisation, Trade and Health, Member of the International Board of US Academy Health, Member of the Board of the International Society for Quality in Health Care, Member of the European Commission Expert Group on Foundations and R&D, Member of the Board European foundation Centre and Chairman of the International Committee and its initiative Europe in the World and Chairman of Young @ Heart. Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB), Queen's Birthday Honours in 1994.
