Lord Prior is Deputy Chairman U.K. and Global Senior Advisor at Lazard.

He was educated at Cambridge University and subsequently qualified as a barrister. He trained in finance at Lehman Brothers and Lazard Freres in New York before holding a number of senior positions within the industrial sector, including British Steel, where he was Commercial Director.

He was elected MP for North Norfolk in 1997 and became CEO and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. He served as Chairman of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2002 – 2012 before becoming Chairman of the Care Quality Commission.

In 2015, he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and created a Life Peer.

He is also Chairman of Protas, a not-for-profit clinical trials business, chairs the Cambridge Life Sciences Council, and is a member of the Novo Nordisk Sustainability Advisory Council.