Professor John Moxham

John Moxham has been a consultant in Respiratory Medicine at King's College Hospital since 1982. He is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at King's College London School of Medicine. He has been interested in tobacco control for more than 20 years, initiated the Tobacco Committee of the British Thoracic Society and in the 1990's was a Board member, and Chairman of ASH. In 1997 he became Dean on the King's College Hospital campus and in 2000 Vice Dean of the enlarged KCL School of Medicine. He has been Medical Director of KCH from 2003 to 2009 and was then appointed Director of Clinical Strategy of King's Health Partners, the Academic Health Sciences Centre constituted by Guy's and St Thomas', King's College and Maudsley Hospitals and King's College London.

Professor John Britton

Professor Britton is Professor of Epidemiology and Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at Nottingham University, and is a consultant in respiratory medicine at Nottingham City Hospital. He is Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, and chairs the Royal College of Physicians tobacco advisory group.  

Ed Gyde

Ed is CEO of a leading London-based social marketing agency, audience communications. He has worked in the communications industry for over 15 years and has masterminded many award-winning national/international tobacco control campaigns for organisations such as No Smoking Day, the British Thoracic Society, the British Lung Foundation and the European Respiratory Society.

Professor Martin Jarvis OBE

Professor Jarvis is Professor Emeritus of Health Psychology, University College, and London. He has been active in research into nicotine addiction, smoking cessation, and passive smoking for the past thirty years and is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation and the Royal College of Physicians’ Tobacco Advisory Group. 

Maura Gillespie

Maura has worked for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) for 12 years and is currently Head of Policy & Advocacy. She heads up a team of 10 who are responsible for the charities policy development, lobbying and campaigner engagement. The BHF have been a key player in smoking cessation, taking a leading role in the ban on cigarette vending machines and a ban of cigarette displays. Maura recently led the award winning Hands-only CPR TV campaign which has saved over 35 lives and the online video has been viewed 2.5million times. The BHF are working closely with the Resuscitation Council UK to try and get Emergency Life Saving skills taught to all children before they leave school. Maura also lead on the merger of No Smoking Day with the BHF in 2011 and is heading up the marketing team responsible for No Smoking day 2013/2014.

Sarah Woolnough

Sarah is Executive Director of Policy and Information at Cancer Research UK. In 2010 she was seconded to the Department of Health to develop the Government’s new cancer strategy – Improving Cancer Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer – which sets out to make our cancer services world class and commits England to saving an additional 5000 lives per year from cancer by 2015. Sarah sits on a number of national working groups and is a trustee of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) and health charity Bliss.

Dr Jennifer Mindell

Dr Mindell is a clinical senior lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at University College, London. She trained in general practice before moving to public health medicine, gaining a PhD from the University of London in 2002 and being elected Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2005. Experienced in tobacco control and research in Oxfordshire, Nottinghamshire, London and nationally, she leads on tobacco control for the Faculty of Public Health. 

Dr Lesley Owen

Dr Owen is an analyst in the Centre for Public Health Excellence at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Previous posts include senior public health advisor on tobacco at the Health Development Agency and senior research manager on tobacco at the Health Education Authority. 

Simon Hopkins

Simon Hopkins became the Hon Treasurer of ASH, following his appointment as British Heart Foundation Finance Director in 2009.

Peter Kellner

Peter Kellner is a political commentator and President of YouGov. Over the last 30 or so years he has been a journalist with The Sunday Times, The Independent, New Statesman and Evening Standard newspapers.

He has also been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and the Institute for Policy Studies, London and has advised several large corporations. He is the Chairman of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

Professor Peter Kelly

Professor Kelly’s career began as a lecturer in medical statistics at Newcastle University and he also worked for Teesside University where he became a professor. He was a non-executive director for a local acute trust before making a career shift into the NHS in 2000.

He was appointed Director of Public Health for Middlesbrough for five years before taking up his current role where he provides senior leadership for public health across Teesside and the North East. He was extensively involved in the 2007/08 regional and national ‘Darzi’ review of the NHS and is a passionate advocate for tackling health inequalities and supporting Teesside and the North East region in general. 

Dr Andy McEwen

Dr Andy McEwen is a psychiatric nurse by training who specialised in the treatment of addictions. He is currently Assistant Director of Tobacco Studies at University College London and Executive Director of the National Centre for Smoking Cessation & Training (NCSCT). His main research interest is in finding new and better ways of helping smokers to quit. Andy also acts as a Senior Editor for Addiction and is Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference (UKNSCC).

Lord Rennard of Wavertree MBE

Lord Rennard sits in the House of Lords on the Liberal Democrat benches. He is Treasurer of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Diabetes and a Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health. As a frequent contributor in the House of Lords, he concentrates on Constitutional Affairs, Localism issues and health matters.