Ian Jacobs

Ian is currently President and Vice-Chancellor of University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Prior to this, he was Vice President of the University of Manchester from 2011-15 and Dean of Medicine and University College London from 2009-11. He qualified in medicine at Cambridge University and the University of London before specialising in surgical treatment of women’s cancers. He has for the last 30 years led a research team working on early detection and risk prediction of cancer with a particular focus on screening for ovarian cancer, which has led to grant awards > £50m and over 400 publications. He was the lead investigator for the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS).