Professor Raman Bedi is the Chairman of the Global Child Dental Fund and was previously Chief Dental Officer in England, i.e. the most senior advisor on dentistry in each of the four UK governments and head of the dental profession.

Since 2012 Raman has been the founding chair of the oral health working group of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, which raises the importance of oral health issues affecting global public health. He is a practicing specialist, focusing exclusively on the comprehensive oral rehabilitation of young children. He was a consultant to the NHS in pediatric dentistry from 1991 to 2005 and is on the General Dental Council's list of Specialists in Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health. He is a consultant to WHO on curriculum development in the field of patient safety and dentistry, and was co-chair of the World Expert Committee on the management and prevention of dental caries. Recently, he was asked by WHO to review dental services in Oman.  

Raman served as head of dental public health at the Eastman Dental Institute at University College London and director of the National Centre for Transcultural Oral Health. He was also co-director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre at the Eastman Dental Institute. He is currently professor emeritus at King's College London.

He is one of the few researchers to have been awarded a Doctor of Science by the University of Bristol for his contribution to dental research and a Doctor of Humane Letters by AT Still University for his scholarly contribution to the social sciences.  

• Professor Emeritus of King's College London.  
• Formerly Director of Dentistry England.  
• Extraordinary Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa  
• Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania  
• Doctor of Dental Surgery, University of Bristol 
• Doctor of Humane Letters from AT Still, U.S.A. 
• Doctor of Science, University of Bristol 
• Honorary Fellow of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow  
• Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, UK.