Rahul is Counsellor for Healthcare & Life Sciences for UK’s Department for Business & Trade (DBT) at British Embassy Beijing. He leads on UK trade & investment in emerging opportunities between the UK and China. Previously, from 2017-2023, he worked for six years in DBT London HQ and has led on multiple programmes and opportunities in promoting business with UK and other countries. Key programmes he has led on include the genomics, healthy ageing, one health, health systems strengthening, development and formulating the UK Government’s global health framework. Before DBT, he worked in consulting for EY and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has a master in global politics from the London School of Economics (LSE).