Lord Ribeiro

Lord Ribeiro, CBE FRCS
Chairman of Board of Trustees

Lord Ribeiro was born in 1944 in Achimota in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Ribeiro qualified as a doctor at Middlesex Medical School in 1967 and then specialised in surgery, five years later being awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS). From 1979 until his retirement in April 2008, he was Consultant General Surgeon at Basildon Hospital with a special interest in urology and colorectal surgery, and he helped to establish the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital’s & NHS Foundation Trust’s advanced laparoscopic unit. He was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1998 and served as President from 2005-8. He holds Honorary degrees from the University of Bath and Anglia Ruskin University and received an Honorary Fellowship from the American College of Surgeons. In the 2004 New Year Honours he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to medicine and was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2009 New Year Honours. He was created a life peer on 20 December 2010, as Baron Ribeiro, of Achimota in the Republic of Ghana and of Ovington in the County of Hampshire. From 2012-2019, Lord Ribeiro was Chair of the Department of Health’s Independent Reconfiguration Panel, advising the Secretary of State for Health on changes to local health services in England. He is President of the Council of Dean Close School.

Achievements:

• Consultant General Surgeon