Surgeon Captain Kate Prior is a consultant anaesthetist in the Royal Navy and works at
King’s College Hospital in London. From her early career as a ship’s doctor to more
recent deployments, her operational military role has taken her to war in Afghanistan
and Iraq, Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis and working for the United Nations in
South Sudan. She will share the lessons she has learned about frontline medicine,
leadership and being a woman in the male-dominated world of the military.

Outside of the hospital walls, she provides pre-hospital care for the military, for the
Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix and sporting events as diverse as Tough Mudder,
the Bramham International Horse Trials and the London Marathon.