The first te antidos of to recruit a team. And i was given a bomb disposal engineer as my director general. He came from the private sector too, albeit he'd had a long career in the army running complex commercial projects. So going to just go back one stagestay, if that's ok. I brought together industry people, so, you know, scientific, clinical manufacturing, scale up an the sort of the legacy industry side of long term planning. nick then brought together procurement, project management, diplomacy, because we hard a whole international angle.
Kate Bingham is the former Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce and she's also a shrewd business mind, having been a successful venture capitalist in sectors such as biotech for the past 30 years. She recently spoke with Jessica Pulay at the Cliveden Literary Festival to discuss how business acumen played its part in managing a team of experts from sectors such as science, medicine, industry and academia, in the race to find vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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