Fiona Godlee is a medical doctor, editor, writer and campaigner. She has written, researched and lectured on a broad range of subjects, including the impact of environmental degradation on health, drug policy reform, academic peer review, open access publishing, and the need for transparency, integrity and independence in medical research, education and practice. She is a trustee of the Eden Project and chair of Eden's Board Affairs Committee. She helped to establish and is an ambassador for the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and is chair of the Youth Environmental Service. From 2005 to 2021 she was editor in chief of The BMJ (British Medical Journal) and editorial director of its parent company BMJ. Prior to that she was the founding director of BMJ Knowledge, founding editorial director for medicine of BioMedCentral, and co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences.She was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard Medical School from 1994-1995. She is a Bye Fellow of King's College Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Fiona lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.