Richard Meddings joined the Board of NHS England as Chair in March 2022.

From 2002 to 2014, Richard was a Group Executive Director at Standard Chartered, and Group Finance Director for eight years. Prior to that he was Group Finance Director at the Woolwich and Group Finance Controller of Barclays. Richard has in the past been Chairman of TSB Bank, served on the Board of HM Treasury, a Director at Credit Suisse, a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Legal & General, 3i Group, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group and at Deutsche Bank A.G. He has in these roles variously chaired Audit, Risk and Remuneration Committees.

From 2004 to 2014, Richard was Chairman of Seeing is Believing, a charity focused on curing avoidable blindness. He was a Trustee, and more recently Deputy Chair, of Teach First from 2016 to January 2022 and for the past 4 years has been Chairman of the Hastings Opportunity Area.

He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and has a Degree in Modern History from Exeter College, Oxford.