Raman Bedi is Professor of Transcultural Oral Health at King’s College London and was the Chief Dental Officer of England from 2002 to 2005. Dr. Raman was the head of dental public health at the Eastman Dental Institute, University College of London, and Director of the National Centre for Transcultural Oral Health from 1996–2002. From 1998–2008 he was the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre at the Eastman Dental Institute. Currently, he is an Emeritus Professor at King’s College London. He holds several international honorary chairs, including an “Extraordinary Professorship” in Paediatric Dentistry at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and the University of Pennsylvania. He was the founding chair of the World Federation of Public Health Associations’ oral health working group (2012–2021), raising the importance of oral health issues affecting global public health. He was a WHO consultant and asked to review dental services in Oman. He was President of the British Society for Disability and Oral Health (2002), President of the Education Research Group of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) (2002–2004) and chair of the IADR Regional Development Programme Committee (2002–2004).