Tim Hubbard is Head of Informatics at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Cambridge, UK. He is responsible for the informatics division of the institute, which is at the vanguard of providing analysis and access to genome and genetic data, particularly of humans. He is joint head of the Ensembl genome annotation project (http://www.ensembl.org), which is the world's leading database and access point for the human genome sequence. The Institute was responsible for determining a third of the human genome sequence and with the Wellcome Trust led the policy of immediate release of sequence data into the public domain. Following the controversy surrounding the ownership and access to the human genome sequence, he has become a leading advocate of the benefits of open access and open data release for science and society as a whole. He was a member of the OECD working group on 'Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data' (http://dataaccess.ucsd.edu) and is a member of a number of advisory boards related to information access, including ukPMC (uk PubMedCentral) a repository for open access publications. He is actively involved in government, NGO and industry discussions regarding intellectual property, innovation and public health.
Tim received his BA from Cambridge University (UK), and PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London (UK).
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