Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Centre for Global Mental Health and Centre for Implementation Science, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. He also works as a consultant psychiatrist at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in a local community mental health team in Lambeth. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, is a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator Emeritus and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, of King’s College London and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is director of NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London.