Guidance Executive considers and signs off guidance and implementation for publication. NICE holds Guidance Executive meetings every week.
Guidance Executive is made up of NICE executive directors, guidance centre directors and the communications director. The current membership is:

Sir Andrew Dillon
Chief Executive
Sir Andrew Dillon joined the NHS in 1975 and has held a number of senior management positions, including General Manager of the Royal Free Hospital and Chief Executive of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust. He joined the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as its founding Chief Executive in 1999.

Professor Gillian Leng
Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health and Social Care
Gillian is the Deputy Chief Executive at NICE, the Director of Health and Social Care, and a visiting professor at King's College London. Gillian trained in medicine at

Ben Bennett
Business Planning and Resources Director
Ben joined NICE in 2003. As director of business planning and resources, Ben is responsible for the Institute's business planning process and corporate services including finance, human resources, information technology, estates and facilities.
Ben graduated from the University of Keele with a degree in economics and computer science. He trained as an accountant on the NHS graduate financial management scheme and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).
Before joining NICE Ben worked for the Audit Commission, where he was involved in a range of work including value for money reviews and financial audit for both health and local government clients. Before

Mirella Marlow
Acting Director – Centre for Health Technology Evaluation
Mirella is responsible for the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, a part of NICE that develops guidance and advice for the NHS on a wide range of technologies, including pharmaceutical products, medical devices, diagnostics and digital products as well as interventional procedures. The centre also leads for NICE on science policy and research, and provides services for the life sciences industry through the Office for Market Access and Scientific Advice.
Mirella works with health services, government policymakers, the life sciences industry, patient groups, and researchers to maximise the effectiveness of our work in these areas.
Mirella joined us in 2004, having previously worked for 15 years as a commissioner in the NHS. She has an MBA and a Masters in Medical Ethics and Law from Keele University. Her interests in medical ethics include measuring cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve safety in healthcare, and incorporating ethical considerations into health technology assessments.

Mark Baker
Centre for Guidelines Director
Mark Baker is the Director of the Centre for Guidelines (CfG) and is responsible for designing and operating methods and systems to produce clinical guidelines for the NHS. CfG is also responsible for the work of the Medicines and Prescribing Centre including summaries of evidence on new medicines and unlicensed and off-label medicines and the management of the contract for the British National Formulary.
Before joining NICE, Mark was Lead Cancer Clinician at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals and National Clinical Lead for Cancer Peer Review. He has previously worked in transplantation, academic medicine and public health medicine and was Chief Executive of Bradford Teaching Hospitals for six years and a Director of Research and Development.

Jane Gizbert
Communications Director
Jane
Immediately before joining NICE, Jane was head of corporate communications at the Medical Research Council, the UK's largest publicly funded medical research organisation. Her remit covered the full spectrum of corporate communications, from strategic development, public involvement and consultation, to media relations and brand management. Jane has worked extensively in the political field in Canada, including as Press secretary for the official opposition and former prime minister of Canada, and as Director of communications, Canadian Federation of Labour.
Jane has also held senior positions in charitable organisations including the Scout Association and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Judith Richardson
Deputy Medical Director and Programme Director - Quality and Leadership
Judith Richardson's biography is to follow.

Alexia Tonnel
Director of Evidence Resources
Alexia Tonnel is director of Evidence Resources. She is responsible for the delivery of the NHS Evidence and UK PharmaScan services and leads the information management and technology, user research and information services resources of NICE. Alexia studied business and management in France after which she completed a Master of Science in International Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining NICE, Alexia was a Director with Deloitte where she advised a range of clients in the healthcare and life science industries on policy and strategy development as well as programme implementation.