Professor Soumen Sengupta is the Director of Health and Social Care for South Lanarkshire. 

Alongside being Chief Officer for the South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership, he fulfils the role of:

• Director of Social Work Services for South Lanarkshire Council, with strategic responsibility for the Children and Justice Services; and
• Director of Primary Care for NHS Lanarkshire, providing strategic leadership for pan-Lanarkshire Primary Care Services.

His appointment as Director followed an extensive career in public health and in health and social care management; and his having led strategic transformation programmes at local, regional and national levels.

Professor Sengupta has a MSc in Public Health from the University of Aberdeen and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde.