Kate Nicholas

Kate is an Associate Director of World Vision, one of the world's leading humanitarian relief and development agencies whose 31,000 staff help communities in over 100 countries tackle poverty and the causes of poverty. She was formerly Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of PR Week, and has been a high profile commentator on PR, reputation management and corporate social responsibility.

Judith Willetts

Judith is Chief Executive of the British Society of Immunology, whose members work across areas including HIV/AIDS, allergy, diabetes, vaccination and arthritis. She previously held senior positions at DrugScope, the UK's leading drugs information charity, and the British Association For The Advancement Of Science. Judith is one of the three panel members on the Public Enquiry investigating the supply to patients of contaminated NHS blood.

Sharon Hendry

Sharon is The Sun's Senior Features Writer and former Women's Editor, and a contributor to GMTV, Sky News, BBC Breakfast, Woman's Hour, Radio Five Live and The Wright Stuff. She was responsible for a ground-breaking domestic violence campaign and also launched major investigations into the Child Support Agency and British adoption services.

Maggie Baxter

Maggie has worked in the voluntary sector for over 30 years, her senior positions including: Deputy Chief Executive and Grants Director at Comic Relief (responsible for the allocation of all Red Nose Day income), London adviser to the Baring Foundation, grants officer for Camden Council, and Executive Director of Womankind Worldwide the UK's leading charity supporting women in developing countries. She was also seconded to set up the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

More recently, Maggie set up the first UK Fund for women and girls "Rosa" and advises various grant giving foundations. She is also trustee to five organisations: Rosa; Trust for London/City Parochial Foundation; Green Belt Movement International, Women for Refugee Women & Hilden Charitable Fund and has been involved in making films around anti-trafficking of women.

Augusta Grand

Augusta runs the Eden Project's climate change programme, Climate Revolution, dreaming up and commissioning events, exhibitions and research projects about climate change, while keeping an eye on Eden's own emissions. At Eden she has also worked on biodiversity, mining, energy, and transport, specialising in partnership projects with multinationals.

Suzi Clark

Suzi has worked with charities (including the Chickenshed Theatre Company) for over 20 years as a professional fundraiser, communicator, networker and PR manager - as well as a volunteer. Her overseas posts include Bahrain, Sumatra, Singapore and Libya, while her UK work covers the arts, education, and international development (she recently joined a British Council delegation as guests of the Chinese government).

Flic Everett

Flic has been a freelance journalist and broadcaster for 16 years, working on The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Daily Mail, News Of The World, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Company, Elle, FHM, Men's Health, Radio 5, Radio 4 and a variety of TV programmes. Her consultancy Pitch Doctor offers training and advice to PR professionals.

Lorraine Fisher

Lorraine is former Commissioning Editor of FeMail and former Health Editor of the Daily Mirror. She was a member of the reporting team of the year which broke the Soham story.

Martin Popplewell

Martin Popplewell has presented the news on the BBC News Channel, Five, BBC World and SKY News, and reported for ITN, the BBC One's political programme On The Record and the religious show Heaven & Earth. He has also worked as a researcher at the House of Commons. Martin can provide bespoke media training across a range of industries.

Neela Bettridge

Neela is a founding partner of the sustainability consultancy Article 13 and has over 10 years' experience as an executive coach, trainer and public speaker working with senior management, board members and leadership teams.

Neela has extensive experience in the private and public sector, particularly in the Sustainable Development and solutions agenda and now works as an advisor in this area. She specifically advises on current and future risks in the social, environmental and ethical arenas and how they may affect sustainability business strategy.

Peter Finch

After academic research into psychology and theories of communication, Peter worked for major international advertising groups in building some of the world's largest and most successful brands; as varied as Volkswagen and Chanel.

In recent years he has run his own consultancy specialising in helping brand owners make the most of an increasingly fragmented media environment and increase their consumer intimacy and loyalty. Although working across a broad range of product fields he has particular experience in nutrition and healthcare - developing communications strategies for brands, industry organisations and advisory bodies.

Richard Campbell

A marketing and retail specialist, Richard ran Debenhams Marketing from 1996- 2001. He then joined LMG in late 2001 - LMG was a VC-backed start-up that owned and operated the Nectar loyalty programme. As Marketing Director, Richard launched Nectar in 2002 and played a key role as the business grew rapidly to become the largest loyalty programme in the UK. Since leaving LMG, he has spent the last five years consulting in the UK, Europe and the US.

Fiona Hunter

Fiona Hunter has over 20 years' experience in the field of Nutrition. She began her career as a dietitian working in the NHS. After leaving the health service she spent 10 years as nutrition editor at Good Housekeeping Magazine.

Now freelance, she writes twice a week for London Lite newspaper and a monthly column in BBC Good Food and Health & Fitness Magazine. She also contributes regularly to Essentials, First and The Daily Telegraph, as well as appearing regularly on TV and radio.

Her areas of special interest include food allergy, food labelling, children's nutrition, functional foods, obesity, women's health issues and the practical application of the science of nutrition.

Alan Knight

Alan Knight works with top level management and policy makers involved in the global retail and consumer products arena to help them develop the confidence, tools and inspiration to embed Sustainable Development within their corporate strategies product range and brand.  He is currently the Independent Sustainable Development Adviser to the Virgin Group and Fortnum and Mason. He serves on the UK Government's Sustainable Development Commission and has over ten years' experience chairing Government think tanks.

Christian Payne

An experienced journalist, Christian Payne maintains and hosts blogs and podcasts with readers and listeners in over sixty countries. With a hand in social media, citizen journalism, professional photography and audio and video podcasting, his recent projects have included documenting the plight of Iraqi refugees for the United Nations; expanding the Open University's new media remit; and working alongside Reuters on groundbreaking projects with Gordon Brown and David Cameron. He has advised the Government on the use of Twitter.

Alma Carruthers

A fundraiser with 25 years' experience having successfully led major capital appeals for the NHS throughout the north west of England. During employment by the NHS,  Alma has acted as a consultant for outside organisations including Lancaster University; Lancaster Abbeyfield Society; Marion Allford Associates London, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Jockey Club; Macmillan Cancer Relief; Cancer Care; St Martins College; Lancaster Royal Grammar School; Wyre River Trust; Heron Corn Mill; Turner Dental School Manchester; Heart Concern; Morecambe Bay Health Authority.  Skills include fundraising strategies, recruitment of key supporters, establishing specialist panels, directing major appeals to successful completion.

Charles Martin

Charles commenced directing across a variety of TV entertainment & music shows. His distinctive visual style started to develop when he was asked to do the title sequence & branding for the first series of Big Brother (the original eye motif was his creation); ITV then sponsored him to direct two episodes of The Giblet Boys. The following year he went back to helm three further episodes, one of which garnered the Best Children's Drama BAFTA.

More recently Charles has been directing 2 series of the groundbreaking youth drama Skins, going on to win RTS, Broadcast & BAFTA awards. Charles is currently filming Single, Married, Other for ITV and developing a screenplay for his first feature film.

Anna Richardson

Anna is a regular on our screens, hosting numerous series for the BBC and ITV, including Love Bites Back, Dream Ticket, Des Res, Maternity Hospital and ITV's flagship film series Big Screen. More recently, Anna has turned her attention to writing and producing successful television formats for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, including No Waste Like Home; Turn Back Your Body Clock; and Channel 4's hit series You are What You Eat with Dr Gillian McKeith. 

James Whatley 

James Whatley is SpinVox's Head of Social Media & Conversation, an avid blogger in his own right via Whatleydude.com and co-founder of the online video show & website, The Really Mobile Project. Passionate for all things social, James is a frequent speaker at conferences and events.

He was one of the lead contributors to The Mobile Industry Review show and site, which at its peak, reached 250,000 viewers within the first year of launch. He is also creator of the Mobile Geeks of London, a networking group that started in the UK and has since gone global, and a key advisor to Dabr, a third party mobile web interface to Twitter.

Sam Norman 

Sam is a writer, journalist and broadcaster with extensive writing experience covering most national magazines and newspapers. Sam has presented for all the major broadcasters specialising in arts and entertainment shows such as ITV's Richard and Judy Show and GMTV's Good Morning with Anne and Nick as well as being show biz correspondent for London Tonight.

Jackie Elliot 

A founding member of the PRCA, Jackie Elliot is the former Geneva-based communications director of luxury watch company, Rolex. Prior to joining Rolex, she was EVP of MS&L, the global public relations firm within the Publicis group, and chairman of the UK’s Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA). She now heads the corporate and marketing communications company, Cathcart Consulting, with clients including Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and the Gala Coral Group.

Simon Pearson 

Simon has a formidable record of motor industry public relations in both in-house and consultancy roles. His experience embraces consumer, corporate and b2b work as well as motor sport, having worked for Rover, Toyota and Fiat before moving to freelance consultancy. He is currently retained by GKN Driveline, the global tier 1 automotive components manufacturer. He is also a part of the team running the Racing Steps Foundation, a privately funded initiative to support talented young racing drivers.

His automotive experience has involved much of the motor industry, having worked on programmes for Alfa Romeo, Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Porsche, Renault, Toyota and Volkswagen. He has been retained by Bridgestone, Champion, Federal Mogul, Magneti Marelli, Michelin, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and TRACKER Network, whilst managing the PR programmes of four successive London Motor Shows. He was instrumental in developing the biennial Earls Court exhibition from a dealer-support event attracting some 75,000 visitors, to a fully OICA recognised international motor show attracting at its peak, 425,000 paying visitors (ABC). Non automotive work has included Emirates airline, Rolex, the All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon), the British Ski Federation (now Snowsport GB), SnOasis (property planning), insurance companies and many more.

Simon is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and an honorary member of the Motor Industry Public Affairs Association.

Jenni Retourne 

Jenni Retourné is Director of Style with Substance, which specialises in social media, marketing and copywriting for beauty brands.

Editor of Pure Beauty magazine (a leading trade beauty title) for five years, Jenni has a deep understanding of beauty products and what brands need to do in order to survive in such a competitive market. Prestigious positions she has held include: Cool Brands panellist, judge of the Best Body & Bath Brand at the Pulse trade show, Philips product development consultant, Product of the Year judging panellist and Future Beauty and Body Visions conference speaker.. 

Philip Rose

Philip has nearly 20 years' experience in film PR and marketing, working client side for Sony, 20th Century Fox and Intermedia and on the agency side for Premier PR.

Jo Greaves

Jo has over 20 years experience in consumer health, diet management and nutrition PR.  Past clients have included The National Obesity Forum - launching their first consumer-facing initiative, Tanita, a leading brand of consumer and professional weight monitoring products - Tesco, Kellogg's and the NHS.

Jamie Goode

Jamie is a London based wine writer. After completing a PhD he worked for several years as a science editor before launching wineanorak.com, now one of the leading wine websites. Since 2005 he has been wine columnist for The Sunday Express, and has published two books: Wine Science (2005) and Authentic Wine (2011, with co-author Sam Harrop MW).