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Fiona Miller Smith

Chief Executive, Barts Charity

Barts Charity is based in Cities of London and Westminster — the organisation’s base, not a personal address.

Press citations

1

Topic

1

Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

Last quoted

Aug 2026

Fiona Miller Smith: key facts

Kind of voice
Sector leader
Role
Chief Executive
Organisation
Barts Charity
Organisation based in
Cities of London and Westminster
Quoted on
Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Tracked press citations
1
Most recently quoted
27 Aug 2026

Who Fiona Miller Smith is

Fiona Miller Smith is Chief Executive of Barts Charity, one of Europe's largest health foundations, which manages a £500 million investment and commercial property portfolio alongside a £150 million five-year philanthropic programme focused on medical research and innovation in East London. She has held the role since joining from Social Finance, an FCA-regulated impact investing organisation, where she was Director and COO. Her earlier career spanned investment banking and private equity at Goldman Sachs and Murray Johnson Private Equity, followed by leading and selling three high-growth businesses. Under her leadership the charity has pursued a 2022–2027 strategy prioritising partnership with Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London to fund transformational healthcare and research projects for the people of East London. She is a public advocate for the role of philanthropic capital in strengthening NHS workforce wellbeing, widening access to NHS careers, and advancing medical research including cancer, cardiovascular, orthopaedic, and youth mental health.

“It will be "a transformative moment for the health of people in east London," said Fiona Miller Smith, the charity's chief executive.”

References for this biography

  1. 1.Our management team – Barts Charity — Confirms her role as CEO, career background in investment banking, private equity, and Social Finance, and her non-executive roles.
  2. 2.Better Society Capital Appoints Barts Charity CEO Fiona Miller Smith to Board of Directors — Confirms CEO role, describes Barts Charity as one of Europe's largest health foundations with a £500m portfolio and £150m philanthropic programme, and her February 2025 BSC board appointment.
  3. 3.Our strategy – Barts Charity — Establishes her authorship of the 2022–2027 strategy and the £149m/£150m+ funding figures.
  4. 4.Barts Charity announces new five-year strategy – Charity Today News — Press coverage quoting her on partnership strategy with Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London; confirms ~£30m annual grant-giving.
  5. 5.Barts Health to support 1,000 young people across East London into NHS careers – Waltham Forest Echo — Recent (August 2026) press quote from her on NHS workforce access and the Healthcare Horizons programme.
  6. 6.Barts Charity supports 'Rising Stars' of medical research with £6 million grant – EurekAlert! — Evidences £6m Rising Stars grant and her public statement on the importance of investing in medical research talent.
  7. 7.BARTS CHARITY overview – Companies House — Confirms registered office address: Ground Floor, 12 Cock Lane, London, EC1A 9BU.
  8. 8.Fiona Miller Smith – John Lyons Charity trustee biography — Confirms MBA from INSEAD, Goldman Sachs and Murray Johnson Private Equity career history, and joining Barts Charity in 2016.

Notable achievements

  • Led Barts Charity to award £149m in research and healthcare grants over the five years to 2022, and launched a further £150m+ five-year strategy for 2022–2027. Source ↗
  • Secured £3m wellbeing package for Barts Health NHS Trust staff funded through the charity's Covid-19 Emergency Appeal, which raised £3.7m in total. Source ↗
  • Oversaw a £6m Rising Stars lectureship grant to Queen Mary University of London to grow the next generation of medical researchers. Source ↗
  • Appointed to the Board of Directors of Better Society Capital in February 2025. Source ↗
  • Backed the Healthcare Horizons programme with Bank of America to support more than 1,000 young people across East London into NHS careers. Source ↗

Where Fiona Miller Smith has been quoted

  1. NHS to take over state-of-the-art hospital from private health group in ‘windfall’theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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