CECILIA KINDSTRAND-ISAKSSON, SWEDEN Cecilia Kindstrand is Director of Public Affairs for Swedish Match, a company with tobacco harm reduction at the core of its business. The company divested its cigarette business in 1999 and is now offering products that are recognized as safer alternatives to cigarettes. She is based in Brussels and has worked extensively with the EU regulatory matters, especially the TPD 2014/40 a legislation banning the ‘proof of concept’ of tobacco harm reduction in 26 of the 27 Member States.

Ángeles Muntadas-Prim chairs the Spanish Association Supporting Vapers (ANESVAP). Formed in 2014, ANESVAP is the only association

in Spain defending vapers’ rights. ANESVAP is also a founding member of INNCO, and she serves on INNCO’s Governing Board. She’s cofounder/organizer of the THR Summit Spain (2018), which gathered tobacco harm reduction experts from around the world. She has been

instrumental in promoting the Tobacco Harm Reduction Platform in Spain (2019) for doctors and scientists and in the creation of AHL

Provape, a network of organisations in Latin America focused on vaping and THR. She meets with various politicians, medical associations, and media and also attends various events and political rallies in order to ensure that consumers are represented.

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 90 studies and articles. Notably, he authored the first systematic review on the safety and risk profile of e-cigarettes in 2014; 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.