Sue Charles
Life Sciences Consultant, Founding member of the WHO AMR Survivors Taskforce
A biotechnology entrepreneur and communications professional, Sue has over three decades of experience in the life sciences industry. Passionate about helping to translate bioscience innovations into commercial and investor success, Sue’s global experience covers advising early stage private to large multinational companies, supporting clients as they grow, including through successful financings both privately and on public markets. She has experience across breath of technology and therapeutic areas, including AMR.
Through her consultancy business, Charles Consultants (Life Sciences), she advises senior executives and boards of life sciences companies, venture firms and science-led organisations providing strategic communications counsel. She also serves on the Board of private genomics tools company, RevoluGen, where she is also part-time head of corporate communications, and is a senior strategic advisor for Consilium Strategic Communications and Scius Communications. She is a founding member of the WHO Taskforce of AMR Survivors and serves on the Strategic Advisory Council of PACE.
Widely recognised for pioneering the life sciences communications sector in the UK, Sue has founded, grown and led notable business communications consultancies including De Facto, Northbank, College Hill Life Sciences and Instnctif Partners (Healthcare & Life Sciences), building and leading teams in the UK, Germany, Australia and the USA.
Previous part-time executive roles have included as Industry Engagement Manager at the ithree institute at the University of Technology Sydney and as CEO of a biotech spin-out from UCL. She has served on the Board of the UK BioIndustry Association (2018-2020) and as charity board trustee for the Jane Goodall Institute (UK) (2009 – 2011).
Sue has a first-class degree and MA in Biochemistry from Oxford University, PhD-level research experience in molecular biology from Leicester University and an MBA from Cranfield Business School.