Catherine Pollard (1999)

Catherine oversees Moderna’s significant investment into R&D activities and the expansion of its clinical trial footprint across the UK, Canada and Australia. 
 
Catherine joined Moderna in October 2022 from the NHS, where she had spent over 12 years in a range of strategy, policy and transformation roles – national and local. Most recently she was Director of Technology Policy for NHS England and the Department of Health & Social Care, including developing plans to harness NHS data for research and innovation. 
 
Prior to NHS England, Catherine was the Director of Strategy at UCLH and the Executive Director for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System. Her early career was in consulting, including at McKinsey & Co. 
 
She holds a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and an MA in History of Art.