Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, CBE, was most recently Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool. He has been Chair of the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) since 1999, a role which he relinquished when he became chair of the MHRA on its creation in April 2003.
Previously, he was a member of the Adverse Reactions Group, and the Subcommittee on Adverse Reactions to Vaccines and Immunisation of the CSM. Between 1992 and 1996 he was a member of the Medical Research Council. He has worked closely as assessor to various programmes of the European Union, on committees of the World Health Organisation, and within the International Union of Pharmacology.
Between 1987 and 1999, he was a member or the chairman of local and regional health authorities in the north-west of England. He has held visiting professorships in Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and India. Sir Alasdair is married with two children. He is not affiliated to any political parties.
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