Professor Steve Riley was elected Chair of the Medical Schools Council in August 2025.
Professor Riley currently serves as Pro Vice‑Chancellor of Cardiff University’s College of Biomedical and Life Sciences. A practising clinical academic nephrologist with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, he brings a deep understanding of the relationship between medical education, research, and frontline patient care.
His academic expertise spans curriculum development, leadership in education, and clinical research in diabetic nephropathy. Notably, he led the transformation of Cardiff’s innovative C21 Medicine curriculum, introduced Wales’s first Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, and played a key role in developing the North Wales Medical School. He is also an alumnus of the Harvard Macy Institute’s international leadership programme and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators.