Thea Stein is the Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust – a UK Health and Social care research think tank. Thea has held many Chief Executive positions across various sectors, including Carer’s Trust, a UK wide charity supporting carers, and Yorkshire Forward, a regional economic development agency. For 9 years prior to joining Nuffield, Thea was Chief Executive at the Leeds NHS Community Healthcare Trust, where she led a range of work looking to integrate services across primary, community, local authorities and third sector organisations and ran a wide range of local and regional services.

Thea has also held a number of non-executive roles in housing organisations and academia and is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer in Population Health services research and Primary care at the University of Manchester. She started her career as a clinical psychologist and family therapist.