Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green
Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green was appointed as the first Children's Commissioner for England in April 2005, taking up his post full time on 1 July.
Prior to this, he was the National Clinical Director for Children and Chair of the Children's Task Force at the Department of Health, as well as Nuffield Professor of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the Institute of Child Health, University College London.
From 1993 to 2003, Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green was an Executive Director on the Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust Board and Director of Clinical Research and Development at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Prior to this, he was a clinical and university lecturer and fellow of Green College at the University of Oxford and Professor of Child Health and Head of the school of Clinical Medical Sciences at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Professor Sir Albert Aynsley-Green trained at Guy's Hospital Medical School, University of London; Oriel College, University of Oxford and the University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
During 2006 he delivered the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother Lecture of the Nuffield Trust and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from the University of Nottingham and Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Liverpool. He was appointed Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2006.
