Sue Russell

Sue Russell is Senior Funding Policies Adviser in Funding Operations and Governance at Wellcome based in the UK, having joined in 2025. Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that works towards everyone benefitting from science’s potential to improve health and save lives. Sue’s role at Wellcome spans a number of funding policy areas including globalising policy approaches, promoting research integrity and use of generative AI. Sue joined Wellcome in 2025, following 10 years in different roles leading funding policies and in grant management roles at Cancer Research UK (CRUK). Before that, Sue spent a further 10 years at various international development funders and non-governmental organisations in programmatic and funding roles, focusing on improving health and disaster relief across many low- and middle-income countries.