Tilak Ginige

Elected for three years 2023

Why do you want to be a governor?

I wish to give back to Trust, which has been instrumental in successfully helping to heal members of my immediate family. A governor is required to understand the patient experience, identify priorities for improvement of quality services and to engage with trust members and the general public.  I have been actively involved in community engagement  for the last 18 years. I come from a  medical family. My father was a surgeon, and my mother was a theatre sister  and I am more than aware of the multiple issues that are in operation in the operation of a hospital trust and the stresses that people in the medical world experience on a day-to-day basis. 

What skills do you feel you could bring to the role?

My research interests include Health Law, Renewable Energy Policy and Law, Mining Waste, Water Framework Directive, Environmental Liability, Nature Conservation Law, Rights to Nature and Sustainable Development and its applicability in the UK legal system.Public engagement in a wide variety of decision-making processes is at the heart of my research.  Furthermore, collaborating with public bodies is something that I'm quite used to, as in the past, I contributed to the Catalan Government's environmental policy as an advisor to the President of the Generalitat of Catalunya.

Declaration of Interests

None.