Held on Friday, 09 Oct 2026 at 6:30pm

Venue: Apothecaries' Hall, Black Friar's Lane, London EC4V 6EJ

Presenting MSF: Humanitarian Medicine (Audrey Few lecture)

To be given by Mr Chris Lockyear

A trust in the name of Audrey Githa Few was set up in 1982 until 2005 by the United Kingdom Committee for the World Health Organisation of the United Nations. This trust provided grants to organisations including schools and charities linked to particular work in humanitarian medicine. The link between the money and the Apothecaries was that Ian Field and another civil servant at the Dept. of Health were appointed trustees to the fund, which was sitting idly, not being put to any purpose.

When Ian Field was at a committee meeting of the faculty, and they were trying to find funding to set up the bi-annual lectures, he persuaded his co-trustee to transfer the fund for the use of the Apothecaries Faculty of Conflict & Catastrophe.

The faculty was grateful to have received some monies in 2004. This enabled the faculty to establish an annual lecture programme with prominent speakers, hence furthering its objectives in the field of humanitarian medicine. Ms. Few had a keen interest in international issues, particularly those of the WHO.

Mr Christopher Lockyear is an Executive-in-Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), a negotiator, humanitarian, commentator, and qualified mediator with over two decades of experience in conflict environments, international diplomacy, and senior institutional leadership.

Chris is working on the intersection between humanitarian negotiations and political mediation. He teaches on humanitarian diplomacy, complex emergencies, and peace mediation.

Chris most recently served for seven and a half years as Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, an independent medical humanitarian organisation of nearly 70,000 staff across more than 70 countries.