Our trustees

Fiona Driscoll

NCRI Chair

Fiona is Chair of the Wessex Academic Health Science Network and Chair of Women on Boards. She is a Non-Executive Director and Audit Chair of UKRI, a Trustee of King Edward VII’s Hospital, a Non-Executive Director of BotOptions (UK) plc and a Member of HM Treasury’s Major Projects Review Panel. Fiona focuses on strategy, through innovation, transformation and commercialisation, and effective governance and risk management, together with the EDI agenda.

Dr Matthew Hobbs

Matthew Hobbs joined Prostate Cancer UK as Deputy Director of Research in 2013, and was appointed as Director of Research in 2020.

Through a period where the charity’s focus has increasingly been placed on funding and translating research that can make a difference for men diagnosed with or at risk of prostate cancer.

Matthew has been responsible for in-year delivery of the charity’s research business plans; has contributed to development of new charity and research strategies; and, with his team, has delivered several targeted research funding schemes and changed how the charity performs horizon scanning, impact assessment, and response mode funding.

Angus McNair

Angus McNair is a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Surgery at the University of Bristol and Specialist Registrar in colorectal surgery. He trained in Bristol and the south west of England and completed his doctorate in 2011. His research interests include doctor-patient communication in cancer care, patient and public involvement in research prioritisation and randomised trial methodology.

Cathy Scivier

Cathy Scivier was a member of the leadership team at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London for fourteen years, initially as HR Director and latterly as Chief Operating Officer, where a key part of the role was liaison with cancer research funding bodies. Cathy left the ICR in early 2016 to relocate to the north-west of England and now lives in Lancashire. From 2012-2016 she was the ICR’s nominated Governor on the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust’s Governing Body. She has an MSc in HR Management and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Prior to joining the ICR she spent over 20 years in healthcare management in the NHS in south west London. She is also a trustee of a number of other charities. She has recently taken on the role of Chair at n-Compass, an advocacy and wellbeing charity. Cathy is also an Independent Member of the Audit Committee of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.