Nora Ann Colton is the Founder and Director of the UCL Global Business School of Health and Professor of Leadership and Management for Healthcare.  She has a health and development economics background with extensive experience in change management and strategic leadership for healthcare.  Prior to this role, she was the UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (Postgraduate Education) and Joint Director of Education at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital.  

She has also been a visiting professor at the School of Public Administration at the University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China, and the American University of Beirut. She has held academic appointments at Drew University in the USA and the University of East London. She has also held a post-doctoral position at the Department of Economics at Harvard University.  Her D.Phil. is from St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford.

Her research focuses on leadership and the new health economy, self-selection bias in healthcare leadership roles, and the relationship between senior managers' backgrounds and organisational performance in healthcare.  

Nora is an educationalist with a particular interest in curriculum development and education strategy. She has supervised several doctoral and master's students and taught at the postgraduate level. She is a sought-after executive education trainer and event speaker focusing on strategic leadership for healthcare.