Tim Kelsey

Chief Executive Officer
Australian Digital Health Agency

Tim Kelsey is Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency. He is an internationally regarded expert in thinking differently about how digital and social media can transform the customer experience in public services.

He was the first National Director for Patients and Information in the National Health Service (NHS) in England - a role which combined the functions of chief technology and information officer with responsibility for patient and public participation. He was also chair of the National Information Board and led the development of Personalised Health and Care 2020, a framework for implementation of a modern information revolution in the national healthcare system across Britain.

Tim joined the NHS in 2012 after serving as the British government's first Executive Director of Transparency and Open Data. As a leading advocate of a popular knowledge revolution in public services, in 2000 he co-founded Dr Foster, a company which pioneered publication of patient outcomes in healthcare. Telstra Health bought Dr Foster in 2015. Tim was named a Reformer of the Year by the Think Tank Reform in 2012, and one of the 500 most influential people in the UK in 2014 by the Sunday Times. Tim was a trustee of the Nuffield Trust, a leading health policy think tank, until 2015, and was appointed visiting professor at the Institute for Global Health Innovation at Imperial College, London in November 2015. Before Dr Foster, Tim held various news editor, investigative and television reporter roles, among them for the Independent and The Sunday Times, as well as Channel 4 and the BBC. He has also worked for Telstra and for McKinsey & Co.