Chief executive Independent Reconfiguration Panel and director of Commissioning, Specialised Services, NHS England.
Now the panel's director has resigned after being accused of feeding information to then-Gov.
One of the panel, the director Taylor Hackford, called Blank a national treasure.
Stephen Deuchar, the chair of the judging panel and director of the Art Fund, which organises the prize, said the list shows how UK museums lead the world.
Tim Knox Chairman, AIL Panel and director, Sir John Soane's Museum Why all the hand-wringing (The human cost of the cuts, 25 March)?
"It is a very difficult problem," said Shelley M. MacDermid, a co-chairwoman of the panel and director of the Center for Families at Purdue University.
At a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, the panel's director said its inquiry had confirmed evidence that nearly half of the 284 prisoners interviewed in three provinces had been tortured during arrest or questioning.
In his testimony to the parliamentary panel, Andrew Cecil, director of public policy for Amazon in Europe, confirmed that the company had received a demand for $252 million from the French tax collection agency.
Speaking to the same House panel, the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper, gave spy agencies a grade of "B-plus, if not A-minus" for their recent Middle East forecasting.
Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, a consumer representative on the panel and director of the health research group at the nonprofit group Public Citizen, said the F.D.A. should "move slowly, if at all," to expand approved uses of the drug.
