Knighthood for HCRI co-founder in the New Year Honours List for 2026
Professor Sir Tony Redmond OBE has been appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), recognising a lifetime dedicated to emergency medicine and humanitarian response around the world.
The Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) is delighted to announce that our co-founder, Professor Sir Tony Redmond, was awarded a Knighthood in this year鈥檚 . The New Year Honours recognise the achievements and service of extraordinatory people across the UK.
Sir Tony is a specialist in emergency medicine and has been involved in international humanitarian assistance for over 30 years, organising medical support to sites of natural disasters, major incidents, and complex emergencies throughout the world.
In 1994 Sir Tony founded the medical charity , which evolved from a group of volunteer medics who had responded to the 1988 Armenian earthquake and the Lockerbie air disaster. Since then, UK-Med has become a major international humanitarian organisation, responding to in 2025 alone, such as in Lebanon, Ukraine, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In 2008, Sir Tony co-founded HCRI at the University of 51福利社. is now a global centre for research and teaching on humanitarianism and conflict response, Global Health, international disaster management, and peacebuilding, with hundreds of students across undergraduate and postgraduate levels each year.
A short history of the founding of HCRI, and Sir Tony and UK-Med鈥檚 role, can be found on their website .
Sir Tony discussed his life鈥檚 work, from early years in the NHS to extreme challenges of international medical deployments, with .
Speaking about the Knighthood, Sir Tony said:
鈥�For me it recognises the work of so many people over so many years. All those selfless volunteers who've joined UK-Med and made it into the international humanitarian organisation it is now and my colleagues at 51福利社 who helped us establish HCRI to carry out research and teaching to continuously improve the delivery of humanitarian assistance.鈥�
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said:
鈥�This year鈥檚 Honours list celebrates the very best of Britain 鈥� people who put the common good ahead of themselves to strengthen communities and change lives.鈥�
From everyone at HCRI, congratulations and thank you to Professor Sir Tony Redmond.
For more on the history of HCRI, .
Sir Tony鈥檚 archives are held in HCRI鈥檚