Harry Shapiro is Director of DrugWise – an online drug information service - and Managing Editor of DS Daily - the daily online drug, alcohol and tobacco news service. He has worked in the drugs field for over 40 years, first with the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence and then from 2000 with DrugScope where he was Director of Communications until the charity folded in 2015. Since 2015, he has been working with Knowledge-Action-Change promoting public health through harm reduction. He is the author and Executive Editor of the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report, contributes a blog to Nicotine Science and Policy and is one of KAC’s media spokespeople.

Martin Cullip is a former company director and International Fellow of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, who has written and blogged on free market and lifestyle consumer issues for over a decade. As a user of e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products, he is a particularly passionate consumer advocate for all forms of tobacco harm reduction and has a keen interest in the rapidly-evolving nicotine market and the politics surrounding it. Martin is a former Chair of UK educational charity The New Nicotine Alliance and has taken part in parliamentary evidence sessions and consumer, industry, and political events on the subject domestically and internationally.

Sarah Cooney is a science engagement specialist, advises on harm reduction, science communication, and regulatory affairs. For over a decade at British American Tobacco, she spearheaded the company’s science engagement, helping pave the way for less-risky nicotine products. Sarah reshaped BAT’s publishing strategy, crafting award-winning reports to demystify reduced risk research. Her knack for making science accessible extends from boardrooms to public forums, bridging the gap between scientists, regulators, and the media. With editorial roles at Nature, Elsevier, and BioMedCentral, Sarah brings a wealth of publishing expertise. As a published scientist (with a BSc and an MSc from the University of Toronto) she understands the need for commitment to scientific accessibility and innovation.

Fiona Patten was a member of the Victorian parliament from 2014 to 2022. She campaigned on harm reduction policies for 30 years and ran the Australian adult industry association (Eros) for 20 years. She initiated and delivered reforms including voluntary assisted dying, abortion law reform, the decriminalisation of sex work and drug law reform. Since leaving parliament she has continued to work on social reform issues including criminal justice reform, regulating adult use of cannabis, access to medicinal cannabis, drug harm reduction including for tobacco, and a greater separation of church and state. She currently sits on a variety of health and justice boards. Fiona is passionate about tobacco harm reduction and constantly disappointed with her own country’s approach to it. In 2018 she published her autobiography -‘Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll’. She is the owner of a registered wildlife sanctuary.

Since graduating with a degree in Politics and Government in 1978, Paddy has worked in a number of aspects of public health and social care, including alcohol and drug services, the probation service and public health advocacy. In addition to these he has worked in event management, including directing five editions of the International Harm Reduction conference. Since 2012 he has been mainly involved in the development and promotion of Tobacco Harm Reduction, including directing the Global Forum on Nicotine.

Clive Bates has had a diverse career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Starting out with IBM, he then switched career to work in the environment movement. From 1997-2003 he was Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK), campaigning to reduce the harms caused by tobacco. In 2003 he joined Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Strategy Unit as a civil servant and worked in senior roles in the public sector and for the United Nations in Sudan. He is now Director of The Counterfactual, a consulting and advocacy practice focussed on a pragmatic approach to sustainability and public health.

Dr Roberto A Sussman (PhD University of London) is a full time senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Nuclear Sciences of the National University of Mexico. His main research areas are General Relativity and Cosmology, but he has conducted research in other areas of Physics, including peer reviewed publications on e-cigarette aerosols. He advocates for an appropriate regulation of Tobacco Harm Reduction products in Mexico and Latin America and is active in spreading scientific information on these products, as well as advising consumers on how to counter the rampant governmental disinformation and prejudice about them.

Dr Brad Rodu is a professor of medicine and holds an endowed chair in tobacco harm reduction research at the University of Louisville, Kentucky USA. Since 1994 Rodu has authored 70 medical publications about tobacco, and he blogs at Rodu Tobacco Truth (http://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/).

Michelle Minton is a senior policy analyst at the Reason Foundation specializing in consumer policy, covering regulatory issues around gambling, tobacco harm reduction, cannabis legalization, alcohol, and nutrition. The author of numerous studies, her analyses have been published and cited in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today and peer-reviewed journals, and Michelle regularly appears in news media to discuss the unintended effects of laws designed to save adults from their own choices which not only conflicts with the principle of individual liberty, but often the goals of public health. She holds a BA from Johns Hopkins and an MSc from the University of New England.

Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH, is a physician and senior researcher specialising in Public Health at the Universities of Patras and West Attica in Greece. He has conducted extensive research on smoking, tobacco harm reduction, and vaping since 2011, publishing over 100 studies and presenting in more than 80 conferences. He authored the first systematic review on the safety and risk profile of e-cigarettes in 2014 and the first book on e-cigarettes, published by Elsevier. His research was influential in shaping the EU’s regulatory framework on vaping. In 2020, he was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher for his significant impact in global science. During the pandemic, he published studies exploring the relationship between smoking, nicotine, and COVID-19.

Harry Shapiro is Director of DrugWise – an online drug information service - and Managing Editor of DS Daily - the daily online drug, alcohol and tobacco news service. He has worked in the drugs field for over 40 years, first with the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence and then from 2000 with DrugScope where he was Director of Communications until the charity folded in 2015. Since 2015, he has been working with Knowledge-Action-Change promoting public health through harm reduction. He is the author and Executive Editor of the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report, contributes a blog to Nicotine Science and Policy and is one of KAC’s media spokespeople.

Martin Cullip is a former company director and International Fellow of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, who has written and blogged on free market and lifestyle consumer issues for over a decade. As a user of e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products, he is a particularly passionate consumer advocate for all forms of tobacco harm reduction and has a keen interest in the rapidly-evolving nicotine market and the politics surrounding it. Martin is a former Chair of UK educational charity The New Nicotine Alliance and has taken part in parliamentary evidence sessions and consumer, industry, and political events on the subject domestically and internationally.

Sarah Cooney is a science engagement specialist, advises on harm reduction, science communication, and regulatory affairs. For over a decade at British American Tobacco, she spearheaded the company’s science engagement, helping pave the way for less-risky nicotine products. Sarah reshaped BAT’s publishing strategy, crafting award-winning reports to demystify reduced risk research. Her knack for making science accessible extends from boardrooms to public forums, bridging the gap between scientists, regulators, and the media. With editorial roles at Nature, Elsevier, and BioMedCentral, Sarah brings a wealth of publishing expertise. As a published scientist (with a BSc and an MSc from the University of Toronto) she understands the need for commitment to scientific accessibility and innovation.

Christopher Russell, Ph.D. is a behavioural scientist and Director of Russell Burnett Research and Consultancy Ltd (RBRC), Glasgow, United Kingdom. Dr Russell leads the design, conduct, and reporting of perception and behavioural research studies of reduced risk tobacco and nicotine products, including electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS, vaping products), heated tobacco products, and nicotine pouches. Studies are designed to yield a range of cross sectional and longitudinal evidence on: (i) the likelihood that tobacco users and non users will initiate use of a new product; (ii) how adult consumers actually use a new product in everyday life; (iii) how cigarette smoking behaviour changes over time concurrent with new product use (e.g., switching, reduction); and (iv) behavioural intentions, risk perceptions, and subjective effects of a new product. These sources of evidence can inform regulatory evaluations of the potential impact of marketing a new tobacco/nicotine product on future tobacco/nicotine use behaviour and population health.

Miroslaw Dworniczak, PhD - chemist, freelance science journalist, former scientist and lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland). Author (under the name "Stary Chemik" - "Old Chemist") of the first blog in Poland dealing with e-cigarettes and e-liquid chemistry and safety (http://starychemik.wordpress.com - in Polish) and the webpage for complete beginners (http://epapieros.edu.pl) including a manual for beginners in English (http://epapieros.edu.pl/manual-english/).

David MacKintosh has over 25 years’ experience of working on alcohol and drug policy, which has included working within the UK Cabinet Office (UKADCU), heading up the London Drug and Alcohol Policy Forum (LDAPF) and providing specialist advice to the Greater London Authority. He also spent six years as Head of Community Safety for the City of London and has served as a trustee of a number of charities addressing substance use problems. He has helped deliver a range of innovative campaigns and national best practice guidance, which have all had one common purpose, to reduce harm to individuals and communities. In 2020 he began working as an independent consultant and now helps Knowledge•Action•Change deliver the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction and THR Scholarship programmes.

Will is the founding editor-in-chief of Filter, an online magazine that launched in 2018 to cover drug use, drug policy and human rights through a harm reduction lens. He's also the executive director of The Influence Foundation, the New York nonprofit behind Filter. His past work in the drugs and human rights spaces has included founding and/or editing a number of other publications, and consulting for various organizations. Originally from England, he now lives in Vermont.

Dave Cross is a freelance journalist and vaper. He has been covering tobacco harm reduction and vape related stories since 2013, published by a range of new and old. The bulk of his work in this area has been published by the consumer focussed website Planet of the Vapes, coverage that generates millions of unique hits per year. Dave is a passionate advocate for truth and honesty in the tobacco harm reduction debate. First and foremost a consumer, he sat as a trustee on the board of the New Nicotine Alliance charity, volunteered for two British Standards Institute committees, and worked with an e-waste International Advisory Panel. Previously, Dave has worked in FMCG marketing, was a European Sales and Marketing manager for a vacuum deposited conformal coating division of Union Carbide and spent fourteen years as a Secondary Physics and a Primary school teacher.

Jonathan Fell has followed developments in the tobacco and nicotine industries for 30 years. He began his career as an equity research analyst covering tobacco and other consumer industries at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, and from 2013 to 2022 he was a founder and portfolio manager at Ash Park, an investment manager focused on investments in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. Jon now spends his time as a consultant in the tobacco and nicotine spheres and working in the not-for-profit sector, including chairing a London livery company charity, helping to run a Scout group, and serving as a director at Article 36, a UK-based organisation working to promote public scrutiny over the development and use of weapons.

Harry Shapiro is Director of DrugWise – an online drug information service - and Managing Editor of DS Daily - the daily online drug, alcohol and tobacco news service. He has worked in the drugs field for over 40 years, first with the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence and then from 2000 with DrugScope where he was Director of Communications until the charity folded in 2015. Since 2015, he has been working with Knowledge-Action-Change promoting public health through harm reduction. He is the author and Executive Editor of the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report, contributes a blog to Nicotine Science and Policy and is one of KAC’s media spokespeople.

Martin Cullip is a former company director and International Fellow of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, who has written and blogged on free market and lifestyle consumer issues for over a decade. As a user of e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products, he is a particularly passionate consumer advocate for all forms of tobacco harm reduction and has a keen interest in the rapidly-evolving nicotine market and the politics surrounding it. Martin is a former Chair of UK educational charity The New Nicotine Alliance and has taken part in parliamentary evidence sessions and consumer, industry, and political events on the subject domestically and internationally.

Sarah Cooney is a science engagement specialist, advises on harm reduction, science communication, and regulatory affairs. For over a decade at British American Tobacco, she spearheaded the company’s science engagement, helping pave the way for less-risky nicotine products. Sarah reshaped BAT’s publishing strategy, crafting award-winning reports to demystify reduced risk research. Her knack for making science accessible extends from boardrooms to public forums, bridging the gap between scientists, regulators, and the media. With editorial roles at Nature, Elsevier, and BioMedCentral, Sarah brings a wealth of publishing expertise. As a published scientist (with a BSc and an MSc from the University of Toronto) she understands the need for commitment to scientific accessibility and innovation.

Harry Shapiro is Director of DrugWise – an online drug information service - and Managing Editor of DS Daily - the daily online drug, alcohol and tobacco news service. He has worked in the drugs field for over 40 years, first with the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence and then from 2000 with DrugScope where he was Director of Communications until the charity folded in 2015. Since 2015, he has been working with Knowledge-Action-Change promoting public health through harm reduction. He is the author and Executive Editor of the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report, contributes a blog to Nicotine Science and Policy and is one of KAC’s media spokespeople.

Martin Cullip is a former company director and International Fellow of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, who has written and blogged on free market and lifestyle consumer issues for over a decade. As a user of e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products, he is a particularly passionate consumer advocate for all forms of tobacco harm reduction and has a keen interest in the rapidly-evolving nicotine market and the politics surrounding it. Martin is a former Chair of UK educational charity The New Nicotine Alliance and has taken part in parliamentary evidence sessions and consumer, industry, and political events on the subject domestically and internationally.

Sarah Cooney is a science engagement specialist, advises on harm reduction, science communication, and regulatory affairs. For over a decade at British American Tobacco, she spearheaded the company’s science engagement, helping pave the way for less-risky nicotine products. Sarah reshaped BAT’s publishing strategy, crafting award-winning reports to demystify reduced risk research. Her knack for making science accessible extends from boardrooms to public forums, bridging the gap between scientists, regulators, and the media. With editorial roles at Nature, Elsevier, and BioMedCentral, Sarah brings a wealth of publishing expertise. As a published scientist (with a BSc and an MSc from the University of Toronto) she understands the need for commitment to scientific accessibility and innovation.

Derek Yach MBChB MPH, is a global health expert focused on addressing major chronic diseases, mental health and their underlying risks. He has led major initiatives to address tobacco use, healthy diets, and mental health at the World Health Organization, Yale, PepsiCo, the Vitality Group, and most recently as President and founder of the Foundation for a Smoke Free World. Derek has published over 250 peer reviewed publications. He has served on several advisory boards including those led by the World Economic Forum, Wellcome Trust, NIH's Fogarty Center, and Cornerstone Capital. He currently is a member of APCO's International Advisory Board. He lives in Connecticut, USA and swims most days.

Professor Gerry Stimson is a leading advocate for tobacco harm reduction. A public health social scientist, with over 50 years’ experience of research and advocacy, he was one of the founders of harm reduction in the 1990s, helping to develop and evaluate harm reduction in the UK as a response to HIV/AIDS. Gerry has advised the UK Government, WHO, UNAIDS, UNODC, the World Bank and numerous governments around the world on issues relating to drugs, HIV infection and AIDS, and alcohol. He has also published over 220 scientific publications and several books. He is a co-founder of the Global Forum on Nicotine.  Gerry is advisor to the  Knowledge•Action•Change projects on tobacco harm reduction including the Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship Programme and the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction project. He is Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London.

Cliff Douglas is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Action to End Smoking. Cliff has dedicated his 37-year career to eradicating death and disease related to tobacco use by promoting science-based policies and education. Prior to Global Action, Douglas taught a graduate tobacco policy course at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and directed the university's Tobacco Research Network. Douglas served as the American Cancer Society's National Vice President for Tobacco Control and as Tobacco Control Policy Advisor to the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and the U.S. Surgeon General. Other career highlights include leading the campaign to prohibit smoking on airplanes in the U.S., serving as an attorney in landmark lawsuits against cigarette manufacturers on behalf of state attorneys general and individual smokers, and successfully defending Uruguay against Philip Morris International’s international trade action seeking to block that nation's tobacco control laws.

Dr. Sree T.Sucharitha, M.D currently Professor in Department of Community Medicine and Research Co-ordinator at Tagore Medical College and Hospital Chennai, India holds Fellowship in HIV Medicine from I-Tech India which is a joint program with collaboration with Tamil Nadu government. She is also Fellow of Asian Human Rights and Drug Policy. Won Best paper awards for presentations at Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR University (2018), IJRULA- Best Research Scientist-Environment Science (2018), Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University (2019). She is the Founding-Director of AHRER-Association for Harm Reduction Education and Research, a first-ever registered medical professionals body in India for increasing the public awareness of harms resulting due to various human behaviours associated with tobacco consumption, narcotics, alcohol, and obesity.

Tomás O'Gorman is a Mexican lawyer and teaches Corporation Law and Successions Law at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. An ex-smoker and vaper since 2016, he is co-founder of "Pro-Vapeo Mexico", a Mexican consumer association (registered in 2017), that advocates for tobacco harm reduction and non- combustible alternatives. He is a member of INNCO’s Board.

Joseph Magero is a dynamic public policy expert and dedicated harm reduction fellow committed to pioneering progressive solutions in the field of public health. With a keen focus on evidence-based strategies, Joseph has emerged as a trailblazer in advocating for pragmatic policies that mitigate the adverse effects of various societal challenges. Driven by a passion for public health and a desire to effect meaningful change, Joseph has been instrumental in raising awareness and championing evidence-based strategies for tobacco harm reduction. His advocacy efforts have extended beyond borders, engaging with policymakers, health organizations, and local communities to promote pragmatic solutions aimed at reducing the prevalence of smoking and its associated health risks. In 2019, the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organizations (INNCO) awarded him advocate of the Year.

Harry Shapiro is Director of DrugWise – an online drug information service - and Managing Editor of DS Daily - the daily online drug, alcohol and tobacco news service. He has worked in the drugs field for over 40 years, first with the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence and then from 2000 with DrugScope where he was Director of Communications until the charity folded in 2015. Since 2015, he has been working with Knowledge-Action-Change promoting public health through harm reduction. He is the author and Executive Editor of the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report, contributes a blog to Nicotine Science and Policy and is one of KAC’s media spokespeople.

Martin Cullip is a former company director and International Fellow of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, who has written and blogged on free market and lifestyle consumer issues for over a decade. As a user of e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products, he is a particularly passionate consumer advocate for all forms of tobacco harm reduction and has a keen interest in the rapidly-evolving nicotine market and the politics surrounding it. Martin is a former Chair of UK educational charity The New Nicotine Alliance and has taken part in parliamentary evidence sessions and consumer, industry, and political events on the subject domestically and internationally.

Sarah Cooney is a science engagement specialist, advises on harm reduction, science communication, and regulatory affairs. For over a decade at British American Tobacco, she spearheaded the company’s science engagement, helping pave the way for less-risky nicotine products. Sarah reshaped BAT’s publishing strategy, crafting award-winning reports to demystify reduced risk research. Her knack for making science accessible extends from boardrooms to public forums, bridging the gap between scientists, regulators, and the media. With editorial roles at Nature, Elsevier, and BioMedCentral, Sarah brings a wealth of publishing expertise. As a published scientist (with a BSc and an MSc from the University of Toronto) she understands the need for commitment to scientific accessibility and innovation.

Clive Bates has had a diverse career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Starting out with IBM, he then switched career to work in the environment movement. From 1997-2003 he was Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK), campaigning to reduce the harms caused by tobacco. In 2003 he joined Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Strategy Unit as a civil servant and worked in senior roles in the public sector and for the United Nations in Sudan. He is now Director of The Counterfactual, a consulting and advocacy practice focussed on a pragmatic approach to sustainability and public health.

Jeannie is founder and managing director of JCIC International Consultancy specialising since 2011 in advocating for harm reduction policy. She was also recently elected to the States of Alderney parliament, a UK Crown Dependency. Jeannie was formerly Assistant Director of the International Legal Section of the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and is a specialist in treaty law with an LLM from King’s College London including a dissertation on Emerging International Public Health Issues – Human Rights, Harm Reduction and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Jeannie attended all negotiating meetings to create the FCTC during 2001 and 2003. Jeannie is an active commentator on tobacco harm reduction, alternative nicotine product policy and the therapeutic benefits of nicotine. She has recently published an article on using optional protocols to international human rights treaties enabling individuals to take cases against domestic government policy preventing their right to the attainment of the highest level of human health.

Mark Oates is the Director of We Vape and the Snus Users Association, which are both consumer groups standing up for the right of individuals to use safer nicotine products. He advocates for evidence-based harm reduction in a range of areas from tobacco to drug policy, a subject he has written on for the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute, where he is a Fellow. He also provided consumer evidence in the 2018 ECJ case to overturn the ban of snus across the European Union.

Jagannath (Jaggi) Sarangapani is a passionate independent tobacco harm reduction advocate from India and a former member of the Association of Vapers India (AVI). After smoking 40 cigarettes a day for 20 years, he quit through vaping almost a decade ago and has remained smoke-free since. He strongly believes smokers should have access to safer alternatives and the right to remain smoke-free. An avid fitness enthusiast and trekking lover, Jagannath maintains an active lifestyle alongside his advocacy work. A seasoned industrialist, he has spent over 30 years managing his family business, a pioneer in cellular plastics and insulated panels in India. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and is also an alumnus of Columbia Business School.

Harry Shapiro is Director of DrugWise – an online drug information service - and Managing Editor of DS Daily - the daily online drug, alcohol and tobacco news service. He has worked in the drugs field for over 40 years, first with the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence and then from 2000 with DrugScope where he was Director of Communications until the charity folded in 2015. Since 2015, he has been working with Knowledge-Action-Change promoting public health through harm reduction. He is the author and Executive Editor of the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report, contributes a blog to Nicotine Science and Policy and is one of KAC’s media spokespeople.

Martin Cullip is a former company director and International Fellow of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, who has written and blogged on free market and lifestyle consumer issues for over a decade. As a user of e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products, he is a particularly passionate consumer advocate for all forms of tobacco harm reduction and has a keen interest in the rapidly-evolving nicotine market and the politics surrounding it. Martin is a former Chair of UK educational charity The New Nicotine Alliance and has taken part in parliamentary evidence sessions and consumer, industry, and political events on the subject domestically and internationally.