COT Register of Interests K - O

Direct employment.

Senior Research Fellow at the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen. (Since 1997)

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

None. 

Shareholdings.

None. 

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

None. 

Other personal interests.

None. 

Fellowships.

None. 

Indirect support.

None. 

Trusteeships.

None. 

Land and property.

None. 

Other public appointments.

None. 

Other non-personal interests.

None. 

Direct employment.

None. 

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

None. 

Shareholdings.

None. 

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

None. 

Other personal interests.

None. 

Fellowships.

None. 

Indirect support.

Part-time PhD student funded by industry.

Trusteeships.

None. 

Land and property.

None. 

Other public appointments.

None. 

Other non-personal interests.

Direct employment.

University of Reading. (Since 2010)

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

RSM UK Consulting LLP (Consultancy, payment to University of Reading). FSA funded project on nitrite/nitrate. (2025)

Shareholdings.

None. 

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

School governor (Since 2024)

Other personal interests.

Longstanding research collaboration with Mars -arising from previous funded projects (funding now expired - 2010 to 2020). Financial contribution now limited to acceptance of travel and hospitality.

Fellowships.

None. 

Indirect support.

None. 

Trusteeships.

None. 

Land and property.

None. 

Other public appointments.

None. 

Other non-personal interests.

Director of an analytical facility at the University of Reading (“Chemical Analysis Facility”), where users may be directly or indirectly funded by commercial sources, or work has been directly commissioned by them (since 2021)

Member of the Scientific Committee of the British Nutrition Foundation. (since 2020)

Direct employment.

None. 

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

EQT (Consultancy, payment to University 2024).

Shareholdings.

None. 

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

None. 

Other personal interests.

None. 

Fellowships.

None. 

Indirect support.

None. 

Trusteeships.

None. 

Land and property.

None. 

Other public appointments.

None. 

Other non-personal interests.

Direct employment.

Emeritus Reader in Medical Statistics at City St George’s, University of London. Since 2019

Pension - Pfizer

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

None. 

Shareholdings.

National Grid plc,

AstraZeneca (Spouse Shareholder),

National Grid plc (Spouse Shareholder).

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

Biometrics Society,

British Toxicological Society(BTS),

Genetics Society,

Royal Society of Biology (RSB),

Laboratory Animal Science Association (LASA), 

Royal Statistical Society (RSS),

Statistitians in the pharmaceutical industry (PSI),

United Kingdom Environment Mutagen Society (UKEMS),

Member of the UK Committee on Toxicity in Chemicals in Food Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) and sub-groups,

Member of BEIS SAG-CS,

Member of the joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) 92,

Member of HESI/GTCC (Genetic Toxicology Genetic Committee),

MRC EMINENT Scientific Review Board,

RISEP Challenge Panel Member,

Member of OECD Expert Groups,

ILSI Europe (Combined Toxicity Expert Group),

British Trust of Ornithologists (BTO),

English Heritage,

Liberty,

Campaign of the Protection of Rural England (CPRE),

Kew Gardens,

Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust (SBBOT),

Chelsea Physic Garden,

National Trust.

Other personal interests.

None. 

Fellowships.

None. 

Indirect support.

None. 

Trusteeships.

None. 

Land and property.

None. 

Other public appointments.

None. 

Other non-personal interests.

None. 

Direct employment.

Employed by the Postgraduate Medical School (PGMS), University of Surrey from 2004 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2019 at St George’s, University of London when I retired and took on Emeritus status up to the present. Recently, St George’s merged with City University and is now called City St George’s University of London.

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

None. 

Shareholdings.

None. 

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

EFSA Scientific Committee,

COM,

COC,

Member of UK National Centre of Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) Board (until Dec 2022),

MHRA ISAC,

ILSI Europe (TTC Expert group},

 OECD (Workgroup Member),

IWGT (Workgroup Member).

Other personal interests.

None. 

Fellowships.

None. 

Indirect support.

None. 

Trusteeships.

None. 

Land and property.

None. 

Other public appointments.

None. 

Other non-personal interests.

Direct employment.

Newcastle University (2006 - Present)

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

None. 

Shareholdings.

None. 

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

Member of British Toxicology Society (2012 - Present)

Other personal interests.

None. 

Fellowships.

None. 

Indirect support.

None. 

Trusteeships.

None. 

Land and property.

None. 

Other public appointments.

None. 

Other non-personal interests.

None. 

Direct employment.

None. 

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

Completed consultancy for Expert Committee on Pesticides as Member: (January 2022.)

Shareholdings.

None. 

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

Member of the Committee on Pesticides, (2012 - January 2022). 

Other personal interests.

None. 

Fellowships.

None. 

Indirect support.

None. 

Trusteeships.

None. 

Land and property.

None. 

Other public appointments.

None. 

Other non-personal interests.