Sir Graham Thornicroft is a British psychiatrist, researcher and Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Centre for Global Mental Health and Centre for Implementation Science at King's College London. He also a Consultant Psychiatrist working at a community mental health team at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. He is best known for his work on community mental health services, stigma and discrimination, and global mental health. He has published 30 books, and has written over 640 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Thornicroft was made a knight bachelor in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to mental health. Education and early life Graham gained a first class honours degree in Social and Political Sciences from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. After a year working as a residential social worker in a children’s home in Labrador, Canada, he studied Medicine at Guy’s Hospital, and trained in psychiatry at both the Maudsley and Johns Hopkins Hospitals. He completed an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and went on to complete his PhD at the University of London, focusing on the positive outcomes of discharging long-term psychiatric in-patients to community care. In November 2019, Graham was interviewed on the BBC World Service series, The Inquiry, in a radio documentary called "What can we do about the world's mental health problem?", in which he revealed that he had been inspired to become a psychiatrist by an incident in his childhood when his mother, who experienced a severe episode of depression, had attempted to kill herself and her children by using the gas from the kitchen oven (in those days, the gas used in British housing was "coal-gas" containing carbon monoxide, was poisonous and was often a feature in suicides in the UK). Thornicroft's mother was treated for several months, made a full recovery and then returned to work. Career Graham is a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is the founding Head of the Health Services and Population Research Department (HSPRD) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, Founding Director of King's Improvement Science and he established the Centre for Implementation Science at KCL. Graham is a founding member of the Movement for Global Mental Health, a network of 200 institutions and 10,000 individuals involved in improving services for people living with mental health problems and