Lawrence Tallon
Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Lawrence Tallon is the Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). He was previously Deputy Chief Executive at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, where he led the Trust’s approach to strategy, technology, innovation and improvement. He has extensive experience across the healthcare sector in strategy and leadership roles, including within the Department of Health and Social Care alongside ministers and NHS leaders.
Lawrence is committed to patient safety and healthcare innovation, as well as life sciences and risk-proportionate regulation.
15:05-15:55
Monday 28 September Day One Plenary Agenda
Panel 2: GLOBAL ALIGNMENT – Europe’s role in a multipolar digital economy
- How can Europe engage constructively with diverse digital governance models while advancing its own regulatory priorities on data, AI and digital infrastructure?
- Where do differences in technology policy risk creating long-term fragmentation, and what is the cost of regulatory divergence for European businesses and consumers? Where can pragmatic alignment instead be achieved through standards, adequacy and regulatory cooperation?
- How can Europe make data-transfer frameworks more flexible, durable and predictable, while using its regulatory and market influence to promote interoperability, mutual recognition and greater regulatory cooperation rather than reinforcing global fragmentation?
- Can cooperation on international technical standards, including through organisations such as ISO and IEEE, deliver practical alignment across jurisdictions faster than legislative convergence?