Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation welcomes new Chief People Officer

Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation is delighted to announce that Cynthia Duodu joined the Foundation in February as our Chief People Officer.

As Chief People Officer, Cynthia leads the Foundation’s people function, in a newly-established role which focusses on our most important asset to help us realise our vision of health equity – our people. The role will ensure diversity, equity and inclusion is at the heart of organisational culture. 

Cynthia brings a wealth of strategic and commercial experience from private and public sectors, having worked in roles across telecommunications, energy, health and impact investment industries at organisations such as Nesta, the NHS and government in the Department of Energy and Climate Change.  

She joins the us most recently from the Low Carbon Contracts Company and Electricity Settlements Company, where as Director of People and Organisation Development, she led on organisational strategy, culture and transformation.

With her extensive people and organisation development experience, Cynthia will be working to foster and maintain an environment of high performance and innovation across the Foundation. This includes establishing the people vision and structure to make sure the organisation is fit for purpose after a period of growth for the Foundation. She also leads the Executive Team’s collective work on developing the organisation’s culture.

Cynthia is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD), a Freeman of the Company of HR Professionals and sits on the Board of the Roffey Park Institute, a leader in the delivery of high impact executive development.