David Livermore was the professor of medical microbiology at the University of East Anglia. After working at the London Hospital Medical College from 1980 to 1997, he joined the Public Health Laboratory Service (later PHE), and became director of its Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory. He was appointed professor of medical microbiology at the University of East Anglia in 2011. His chief research has been on the evolution and epidemiology of antibiotic resistance. Throughout the pandemic of 2020/21 he has been a consistent critic of lockdown policies.
