Jagannath (Jaggi) Sarangapani is an independent tobacco harm reduction advocate from India with more than a decade of lived experience as a consumer of safer nicotine products. After smoking nearly 40 cigarettes a day for 20 years, he quit smoking through vaping and has remained smoke-free for over 10 years. His advocacy focuses on the consumer perspective in tobacco harm reduction and the importance of ensuring that adult smokers have access to safer alternatives.

Outside his advocacy work, Jagannath is a second-generation industrialist with more than 35 years of experience managing his family business, a pioneer in cellular plastics and insulated panels in India.

He maintains an active lifestyle as a fitness enthusiast and hybrid athlete, with a particular interest in running, strength training, and HYROX competitions. Jagannath holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and is also an alumnus of Columbia Business School

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.

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.

Fiona Patten is a former independent Australian politician. She has campaigned on harm reduction policies for over 30 years and ran the Australian adult industry association (Eros) for 20 years. While in parliament Fiona 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. She was the recipient of the 2025 Michael Russell award. Her autobiography is called -‘Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll’. She is the owner of a registered wildlife sanctuary.

David Sweanor is an adjunct professor, Faculty of Law, and chair of the advisory board of the Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics at the University of Ottawa and has been actively involved in tobacco and health policy issues since the beginning of the 1980s. He has worked globally, and with numerous groups, including the International Union Against Cancer, World Health Organization, World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization and played a key role in achieving many global precedents in tobacco policy. He currently focuses much of his tobacco and nicotine related efforts on risk reduction strategies.