Born in London, Cary Adams has a BSc Honours degree in Economics, Computing and Statistics from the University of Bath, United Kingdom and a Masters degree (with Distinction) in Business Administration. 

He is a Harvard Business School Alumni having attended the School’s Executive General Management programme in 2003.

In 2009, Cary made a career change, moving from the management of international businesses in the banking sector to become CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), based in Geneva.

UICC exists to help the global health community accelerate the fight against cancer and its growing membership of over 770 organisations in 156 countries features the world’s major cancer societies, ministries of health and patient groups and includes influential policy makers, researchers and experts in cancer prevention and control.

Cary and his team focus on global advocacy to deliver the World Cancer Declaration targets by 2020, running significant global programmes that address key cancer issues and use their membership reach to bring about the exchange of best practice globally.

Cary is also Chair of the NCD Alliance, a coalition of around 2,000 NGOs working on Non-Communicable Diseases, which includes cancer, diabetes, heart and respiratory diseases.