Eileen became Chair of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health on 1 November 2026.
Eileen is an experienced senior leader in both private sector and public service roles and is chair of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT). She has considerable experience of regulation in both health and education – in the former she was the Chief Operating Officer of the CQC and in this role led work across the NHS on whistleblowing.
As Chief Executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Eileen was responsible for one of the largest budgets in UK public service, as well as the regulation of the Academies and Colleges landscape in England.
Eileen currently holds a number of non-executive positions – she is Chair of Council at the University of Bradford, Chair (designate) of the Children and Families Trust for Bradford and District and has recently joined the board of Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications in England.