Transparency data

Committee and working group members interests

Published 25 June 2026

1. Ms Julie Hill

1.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	Office for Environmental Protection.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	Limited consultancy circular economy/energy efficiency.
Shareholdings.	Husband has managed portfolio of shares.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	Belong to a number of gardening, heritage and arts organisations.
Other personal interests.	Fellow and President of Institution of Environmental Sciences.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

1.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	Chair, Waste and Resources Action Programme. Board Member of Consumer Council for Water, Environment Agency and Eden Project.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	Former Director and Associate, Green Alliance.

Non personal interests

Fellowships	None
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

2. Professor Julie Barnett

2.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	University of Bath (2013 to present).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	Visiting Professor, Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

2.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	University of Brunel (2008-2013). University of Surrey (1998-2008).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

3. Professor Eleonora Fichera

3.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.

University of Bath (2017 to present).

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	Yes, potentially related to the Medicines Act 2003. Details: research consultancy work for UCB Biopharma (UCB) via the University of Bath (01/02/2024- 30/05/2026). Summary of the project: This research project, conducted in collaboration with the Royal United Hospital (RUH), evaluates the implementation of a patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) care model for rheumatology patients. PIFU is recommended by the NHS 2022/23 Operational Guidelines. UCB provides the digital platform enabling RUH patients to book follow-up appointments. I lead the design and evaluation framework and assess outcomes for a specific patient subset. The primary objectives are to establish a robust evaluation, analyse data, and assess both the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of PIFU, with the goal of publishing results in an international peer-reviewed journal. We hold regular meetings with the UCB research team, RUH clinicians, and hospital data officers. Notably, UCB has no access to the data nor any analysis rights, ensuring that all data analysis is conducted by RUH and the University of Bath. Although this is a research-focused project, it is funded by UCB—a consultancy funding arrangement via the University of Bath agreed over a year ago but only recently formalised.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

3.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	None.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

4. Professor George Gaskell

4.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	None.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	Expert advisor, Predictby conducting behavioural studies for the European Commission (2025 to present).
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

4.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	None.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	Scientific Director, Open Evidence conducting behavioural studies for the European Commission (2012-2023).
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	Advisory group on risk communication, European Food Standards Authority (2005-2012).

Other personal interests.

None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

5. Professor Fiona Gillison

5.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	University of Bath (2007 to present).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

5.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	None.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

6. Professor Charlotte Hardman

6.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	University of Liverpool (2013 to present).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	Executive Editor for the academic journal Appetite (2025-present).
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	Project lead for a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded research grant paid to University of Liverpool (£1.5m) to investigate dietary inequalities in social housing (2025-present). Co-Investigator on a research grant funded (to University of Liverpool) by the American Beverage Association to investigate the role of low-calorie sweetened beverages in weight management (2014-present). Academic supervisor on a PhD studentship funded by Coca-Cola (2024 to present).
Trusteeships.	Trustee of Feeding Liverpool (charity), this is an unpaid voluntary position (2022 to present).
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	Membership of Global Nutrition Advisory Council for Mars, honoraria paid to Institution (2025-present).
Other non-personal interests.	None.

6.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Bristol (2009-2013). Post-doctoral Research Associate, Bangor University (2009-2013). Research Assistant, Bangor University (2000-2002).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	Previously received honorarium payments for invited talks from the International Sweeteners Association (in 2017 and 2018) and International Food Information Council (2021).
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.

None.

Indirect support.	Previous research funding: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) - Mainstreaming UK-grown beans in healthy meals (BeanMeals) , Work Package Lead, £242K to University of Liverpool (£1.8 million total including partners) (2022-2024). BBSRC, Food insecurity in people living with obesity (FIO FOOD), Work Package Lead, £256K to University of Liverpool (£1.6 million total including partners)(2022-2026). Natural Environment Research Council, Quality of Urban Environments with Nature Connectedness and Health (QUENCH) Network: A Network Linking the Quality of Urban Environments with Nature-Connectedness and Health, Co-Investigator, £9K to University of Liverpool (£312K total including partners), (2021-2022). UK Association for the Study of Obesity, Development of person-centred obesity management support during disruption: The REJOIN project, Co-Investigator, £20K to University of Liverpool, (2020-2021). BBSRC, Rurban Revolution: Can ruralising urban areas through greening and growing create a healthy, sustainable & resilient food system? Work Package Lead, £200K to University Liverpool (£639K total including partners), (2019-2022). European Commission, Horizon 2020 , SWEET: Sweeteners and sweetness enhancers: Impact on health, obesity, safety & sustainability, Co-Investigator, £764K to University of Liverpool (£6.5 million total including partners), (2018-2023). Welsh Assembly Government, The development of an intervention to increase physical activity in children, Principal Investigator, £56K to Bangor University,(2006-2007) .
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

7. Professor Spencer Henson

7.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Guelph, Canada (August 2001 to present).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	Consultancies related to economics of food safety with World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, Standards and Trade Development -Facility and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Various periods over the last five years).
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	Member, Rotary Club of Ottawa (June 2025 to present).
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

7.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	University of Reading.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	In addition to the above, Consultancies related to economics of food safety with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and WHO.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	Spent period of 12 months as academic visitor at Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome (September 2023 - August 2024).

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

8. Dr Hannah Lambie-Mumford

8.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	University of Sheffield (2014 to present).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	Child Poverty Action Group (2014 to present).
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2020-2023).
Indirect support.	UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Economic and Social Research Council grant funding (2020-2023).
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

8.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	None.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

9. Dr Rounaq Nayak

9.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	University of the West of England Bristol (Feb 2025 to present).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	Trustee of Food Matters (Nov 2024 to present).
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

9.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	None.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	Fellowship of the Economic and Social Research Council.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

10. Dr Raymond Obayi

10.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	University of Manchester.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

10.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	None.
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	Co-investigator on an Abattoir Review Exercise partly funded by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council to review and assess the modernization needs of UK abattoirs (2019). Research team member for a project on the application of digital twin simulation to model optimisation needs of inspection processes, this project involved collaboration with the FSA (2020). Research team member on a study exploring labour shortages in the food sector, which included the involvement of the FSA (2022).
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

11. Dr Luca Panzone

11.1 Current Interests

Personal

Direct employment.	Principal Behavioural Scientist, Ofgem (August 2025 to present). Reader in Environmental Economics, Newcastle University (August 2024 to present). TREx Reviewer, Turing Research Ethics, Alan Turing Institute (January 2023 to present).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	None.
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics. American Marketing Association.
Other personal interests.	Food and Agriculture Organization ENC Working Group: Leveraging behavioural science to tackle food loss and waste (April 2024 to present). Visiting professor, at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Italy (May 2022– July 2022).

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute.
Indirect support.	None.
Trusteeships	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.	None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.

11.2 Historic Interest

Personal

Direct employment.	Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute (October 2021-September 2024). Senior Lecturer in Consumer Behaviour, Newcastle University (since August 2020). Lecturer (grade G) in Consumer Behaviour, Newcastle University (UK) (August 2017). Lecturer (grade F) in Consumer Behaviour, Newcastle University, UK (April 2014). Research associate in environmental economics, Sustainable Consumption Institute, and Environmental & Resource Economics Research Group, Economics, School of Social Science, University of Manchester, UK (January 2011-March 2014).
Consultancies and other fee-paid work.	Behavioural Data Scientist, Centre for Net Zero/Octopus Energy (November 2024-to May 2025). Advisor for the Competition and Market Authority (June 2021-June 2022).
Shareholdings.	None.
Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.	None.
Other personal interests.	None.

Non personal interests

Fellowships.	None.
Indirect support.	Hort2thefuture: soil-friendly practices in horticulture including alternative growing media, circa £50,000, Funder: EU Horizon 2020.Role: Co-I (WP lead) (2024). UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Covid-19 Grant Extension Allocation (CoA), Funder: UKRI, circa £37,000, Role: Newcastle Principal Investigator (PI) (2021). The feasibility of using UK pulses as Tempeh substrate, Funder: Arrow Innovation Catalyst Project, circa £9,000, Role: Co-Investigator (2021). FoodShock2020 – Intelligent data analytics to understand food consumer practice during a food system shock, the case of COVID-19, Funder: Science & Technology Facility Council, circa £8,000, Role: Newcastle PI (2020). “Diverseafood: Evaluating the potential of multi-trophic aquaculture to improve nutrition and ecosystem sustainability in the UK”, Funder: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBRSC) - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) -Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Global Food Security, circa £190,000 (total project value: circa £637,000), Role: Newcastle PI. (2019-2020). Boosting consumer self-control to motivate purchasing low-carbon food and drink in an online supermarket, N8 Agri-food Strategic pump priming, £20,000, Role: PI (2019). “Estimating the link between alcohol excises and the price of alcoholic drinks in UK supermarkets using scanner data”, Funder: Alcohol Research UK, circa £8,000. Role: PI (2018). “Consumer demand for functional foods: the case of vitamin D enrichment in eggs”, Funded by University of Bologna, circa £8,000. Role: PI (2017). Cost-effective supply chain for livestock in Ethiopia,  N8 Strategic pump priming (with Scarpa, R., Howley, P., and Thankappan, S.), circa £29,000, Role: Co-I (2017). “Sustainable consumption in retail environments”, Unilever funding received within an overarching agreement with the University of Manchester, circa £80,000, of which circa £3,000 to Newcastle, Role: PI (2017). ESRC Studentship on “Implications of Carbon Policies on the Quality of UK Diets”, started in September 2017, circa £74,000 (2017). Institute for Agri-food Research and Innovation (IAFRI) Studentship on “How can we characterise meat quality? Psychophysics of consumption indicators of the quality of beef.”, started in September 2017, circa £74,000 (2017) ESRC Studentship on “Self-regulation in sustainable food purchases: The role of motivation, self-control, and depletion”, started September 2016, circa £74,000, plus £5000 from Unilever plc. (2016). “Moral self-regulation and sustainable consumption”, Funder: Institute for Research on Sustainability, Newcastle University, £10,000 (value: circa £ 55,000), Role: PI (2016). “Consumers Heuristics and Biases in the Identification of Sustainable Food”. Funder: Institute for Research on Sustainability, Newcastle University, £10,000 (value: circa £ 44,000). Role: PI.(2015). “Driving consistency in sustainable choice behaviour”,  Funder: Unilever, circa £ 22,000, Role: PI (2013). “Demand elasticity of Electricity Using Products”,  Funder: Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, circa £ 72,000, Role: PI (2012). “Eco-innovation and Consumer Behaviour”, Funder: ESRC Co-Investment Pilot, circa £377,000 (grant R114688), Role: Researcher (PI: Prof. Dale Southerton) (2012-2014).
Trusteeships.	None.
Land and property.	None.
Other public appointments.None.
Other non-personal interests.	None.