Sir Peter Donnelly FRS, FMedSci, is the CEO and co-founder of Genomics plc. He has been a world leader in human genetics for over 20 years, having held leadership roles in many of the major international and national human genetics studies of this century, including the HapMap Project and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. Peter founded Genomics plc in 2014 after being frustrated that the extraordinary scientific discoveries on the genetic basis of human diseases were not impacting human health and healthcare quickly enough.

Prior to Genomics plc, Peter was a Rhodes Scholar and became the youngest full-time professor in the UK at age 29. He has received numerous awards and accolades, and several of his papers are considered classics, with tens of thousands of citations. Peter was Knighted in 2019 for this work in genomics and has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Human Genetics. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences.