David McCoy currently works as a Research Lead for the United Nations University’s International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), a global health think tank based in Malaysia based in Malaysia. At UNU-IIGH he led the publication of a briefing paper on global university rankings, and currently heads a programme of work on power and accountability in global health. Prior to this he was Professor of Global Public Health and Director of the Centre for Global Health, as well as the Director of Education in the Wolfson Institute of Population Health Sciences at Queen Mary University London (QMUL). At QMUL he managed a suite of undergraduate and postgraduate Global Health taught programmes. He qualified as a medical doctor from Southampton University and worked as a clinician in the UK and South Africa for six years before entering a career in public health as a research fellow at the University of Cape Town and then spent six years working for the Health Systems Trust, an NGO established to support the post-apartheid transformation of South Africa’s health care system. After ten years in South Africa he returned to the UK, where he has worked across the NGO sector, academia and the NHS. He has a Masters in Maternal and Child Health from the University of Cape Town and a doctorate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.