About Baroness Delyth Morgan

As CEO of Breakthrough Breast Cancer for 10 years, she turned the organisation into the fastest growing charity in the sector and created a dynamic and ambitious brand that put breast cancer firmly on the public agenda.

In 2007, Delyth was appointed to Government.She served as Children’s Minister, Intellectual Property Minister and Quality and Governmnet spokesperson for the Department of Work and Pensions in the House of Lords.

She became Chief Executive of Breast Cancer Campaign in 2011, leading the charity in its mission to find the cures for breast cancer and conducting the first Gap Analysis to identify the critical gaps in breast cancer research and knowledge.

In 2014, Delyth played a pivotal role in the merger of Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, working with trustees to define and establish a new organisation committed to the ambition that, by 2015, everyone who develops breast cancer will live.

In April 2015 Delyth became Chief Executive of Breast Cancer Now, the UK’s largest breast cancer charity.

Delyth now sits in the House of Lords as an independent peer. She is a Fellow of University College London and Honary Fellow of the Institute of Cancer Research and Cardiff University.

She is also Patron of Pancreatic Cancer UK and The Sheila McKechnie Foundation, and Honorary President of Cancer 52. In June 2015, she was appointed Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI).