Matthew Campbell-Hill
Matthew Campbell-Hill is a health tech consultant and former GB wheelchair fencing athlete. He won bronze medals at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in 2014 and at the World Championships in 2019.
He has also worked in sport governance and public policy. In 2018, he chaired the Challenge Panel for the UK government’s Tailored Review of UK Anti-Doping. In 2019, he was a case study for the Lord Holmes Review, which looked at barriers that disabled people face in public appointments.
Born in Scotland in 1979 and raised in Oxfordshire, Campbell-Hill sang with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain as a bass. He took part in The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace at the Royal Albert Hall in 2000, and the first official recording was released that summer with the choir and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He later performed in a Shenandoah mass virtual recording with the choir Alumni in 2020.
After a spinal injury, he joined Truro Fencing Club in 2009 and competed for Great Britain in wheelchair fencing. He fenced in the épée (2014–2015) and sabre (2013–2015) teams, winning bronze with the sabre team at a 2014 World Cup in Malchow, Germany. A shoulder injury suffered during the Rio Paralympics qualifiers paused his career in 2015; he returned in 2018 for Tokyo qualifiers. In 2019 he was a reserve for the épée team that won bronze at the World Championships in South Korea. He retired from wheelchair fencing in 2020 after the Tokyo Games were postponed.
Campbell-Hill has held several public-sector roles. He was a non-executive director at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and chaired the Challenge Panel on the Tailored Review of UK Anti-Doping, which led to a budget increase for UK Anti-Doping. He was one of nine case studies in the Lord Holmes Review, and its 2019 Diversity Action Plan followed the recommendations.
In February 2023, he was appointed chair of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee. He is a non-executive director and Audit and Risk Committee member for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and a non-executive director leading global communications and strategy for Magway.
Earlier in his career, he joined NICE’s Medical Technologies Advisory Committee (MTAC) in 2009. In 2016 he became a senior advisor to the NHS WiFi Programme, helping connect thousands of patient-care locations. After leaving the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in 2018, he became Senior Fellow in Novel Technologies at the University of Birmingham.
During the COVID-19 outbreak, he co-designed the Aerosolshield, a portable isolation tent that acts as a barrier between patients and carers. It was named one of the ten innovations in the fight against COVID-19 in The Times’ Future of Healthcare report in August 2020. In 2020, he was nominated in The Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 for science.
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