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About Marc Goldfinger

Who is Marc Goldfinger

Marc Goldfinger is the elected Conservative Councillor for Norland Ward in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC). He is also on the Conservative Party's national Approved Parliamentary Candidates List. He holds a PhD in Clinical Neuroscience from Imperial College London and has spent his career at the intersection of science, technology, and public service. He is currently Director of Translational Sciences at a global pharmaceutical company.

Political career

Marc was elected as the Conservative Councillor for Norland Ward, RBKC, and sits on two council committees: the Planning Committee and the Adult Social Care and Health Select Committee. In his council work he applies his scientific and analytical background to planning decisions, social care commissioning, and public health policy. He is an approved Parliamentary candidate and is actively seeking a constituency to contest at the next general election.

His ward priorities include tackling fly-tipping and street cleanliness, opposing unsafe changes to the Holland Park roundabout, campaigning for the restoration of TfL bus routes 452 and 52, addressing e-bike antisocial behaviour, and improving air quality. He is also campaigning to retain a physical police presence in North Kensington and Notting Hill.

Scientific and professional career

Marc holds a PhD in Clinical Neuroscience from Imperial College London and an MSc in Neuroscience from King's College London. His research focused on traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and he has published 26 peer-reviewed papers with more than 600 academic citations.

After his doctorate, he worked in AI-driven medical diagnostics, leading the clinical development of imaging biomarker tools for liver disease and neurological conditions. He subsequently joined a pharmaceutical company as a senior product owner and later as Associate Director for Clinical Biomarkers, overseeing the translational sciences pipeline for rare and neurological diseases. He has advised the Cabinet Office on artificial intelligence in government and lectured at both Imperial College London and King's College London. He currently serves as Director of Translational Sciences at a global pharmaceutical company.

Academic publications

Marc has 26 peer-reviewed publications across several fields. Selected titles include:

  • The aftermath of boxing revisited: identifying chronic traumatic encephalopathy pathology in the original Corsellis boxer series (Acta Neuropathologica)
  • Next generation histology methods for three-dimensional imaging of fresh and archival human brain tissues (Nature Communications)
  • Annexin A1 restores cerebrovascular integrity concomitant with reduced amyloid-beta and tau pathology (Brain)
  • Quantitative MRCP Imaging: Accuracy, Repeatability, Reproducibility, and Cohort-Derived Normative Ranges (Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
  • Comparison of quantitative magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and the modified Amsterdam score for assessment of primary sclerosing cholangitis (Gastroenterology)
  • Systems and methods for processing images to determine biomarker levels (US Patent US-2024062372-A1)

Full publication list available on ResearchGate.

Community and voluntary work

Marc is a long-standing volunteer with the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), the UK's leading HIV and sexual health charity. He has contributed to HIV education, stigma reduction, and support for people living with HIV, with a particular focus on older and isolated individuals. He is also a volunteer with the National Brain Bank, contributing to neuroscience research infrastructure.

He serves as Deputy Chairman of LGBT+ Conservatives, championing LGBT inclusion within the Conservative Party and making the case that a politics rooted in individual freedom and limited government is the most philosophically coherent framework for LGBT rights.

Marc also serves as a council-elected trustee on the board of Citizens Advice Kensington and Chelsea. The organisation handles over 10,000 enquiries a year and helped more than 3,500 local residents gain almost £2.3 million in support in a single year through advice on welfare benefits, housing, debt, and cost-of-living issues. As a trustee, his role is strategic: setting organisational direction, monitoring financial health, and ensuring the charity is genuinely reaching the residents it exists to serve.

Personal background

Marc is married and lives in London. He was born to British and Canadian parents and is fluent in French, German and Italian. His grandparents survived the Holocaust. That family history is the foundation of his commitment to freedom, democracy, and human dignity, and shapes his understanding of why it matters who enters public life.

Outside his professional and public roles, Marc has had a 15-year parallel career in modelling and television, with campaigns for fashion houses including Hermes and Eton and appearances in publications including Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. He spends as much time as possible on the Cornish coast, where he kayaks and hikes.

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