Meetings
The Events Board meets at least four times a year.
Upcoming 2026 dates:
- Friday 1 May 2026
- Friday 11 September 2026
- Friday 13 November 2026
Reporting mechanism
The Events Board shall report to Council from each meeting on the nature and content of its discussion, recommendations and action to be taken.
Remit
The Events Board acts as a forum responsible for shaping, prioritising and reviewing the College’s events programme, including workshops, meetings and the World Congress. The board has the following responsibilities:
- Approve the strategic direction and annual cycle of the College’s events portfolio:
- Setting and maintaining a coherent, needs-based and future-focused strategy for the College’s events portfolio.
- Ensuring all events align with the College’s three strategic objectives and educational priorities.
- Performing horizon scanning for emerging clinical, professional, workforce and global health needs to inform future programming.
- Approve, defer or decline new event proposals based on strategic alignment, educational value, financial sustainability and organisational capacity:
- Reviewing the full events portfolio to ensure relevance, impact, balance and sustainability.
- Approving progression of proposed events into the full programme.
- Prioritising events in line with strategic value, financial performance, and operational capacity.
- Provide financial and impact oversight on events and courses:
- Monitoring financial performance, risk exposure and contribution to the College’s sustainability.
- Reviewing agreed KPIs relating to attendance, delegate experience, educational impact, reach and commercial performance.
- Ensuring appropriate post-event evaluation and learning is embedded across the portfolio.
- Require information, analysis or assurance from executive staff, committees or event convenors as necessary to discharge its responsibilities:
- Holding overall responsibility for strategic oversight of quality assurance across the events portfolio.
- Working collaboratively with the Education Quality Assurance Committee (EQAC) to ensure educational standards and regulatory alignment are maintained.
- Ensuring duplication is avoided and governance responsibilities are clearly delineated
- Establish, amend and dissolve committees or working groups as required to support delivery of its remit, and provide ongoing strategic oversights of any such bodies to ensure clarity of purpose, appropriate delegation, and alignment with the College’s strategy.
- Make recommendations to Council where decisions fall outside its delegated authority.
Membership
Chair
Andrew Leather, Vice President for Membership (Chair)
Members
Vice President for Education, Melanie Tipples
Vice President for Global Health, Dr Sherif Abdel-Fattah
Honorary Director of Events, Ramesh Ganapathy
Deputy Honorary Director of Events, Swati Jha
Representative of Council
Representative of National Trainees’ Committee
Representative of Education Quality Assurance Committee
Chair Academic Board
Director and Lead Convenor of Revision Courses (to be recruited)
Director and Lead Convenor of Surgical Training Courses (to be recruited)
Director and Lead Convenor of Leadership and Management Courses (to be recruited)
Director and Lead Convenor of Lecture Based Courses (to be recruited)
Secretary
The Head of Course Development and Delivery. Contact: events@rcog.org.uk