Dr. Jean Accius is the Senior Vice President of Global Thought Leadership at AARP. In this role he provides strategic direction, leadership & technical expertise championing new ideas, framing thought-provoking perspectives, and driving bold solutions to change systems & improve the lives of all as they age both domestically & internationally. Dr. Accius holds a Ph.D. in public administration from American University & is a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health program on health reform and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Corporate Innovation program.

Sofiat Akinola is a Health Policy Leader at Roche Diagnostics working on analyzing policy landscape and engaging global stakeholders to transform the way diseases can be prevented, diagnosed and monitored to keep populations healthy and health systems transformation.

Prior to joining Roche Diagnostics, Sofiat was a Global Health Lead at the World Economic Forum where her portfolio focused on Value-Based Healthcare, Universal Health Coverage and Healthy Ageing and Longevity. Sofiat led the portfolio on Health Ageing and Longevity with the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Healthy Ageing and Longevity, a dynamic platform for leading businesses, governments, civil society organizations and world class experts to shape the global healthy ageing and longevity agenda, generate and disseminate new contents and insights and engage multiple actors to co-create solutions to boost the impact of healthy life expectancy.

Sofiat worked in the NGO and Government sectors where she built monitoring and evaluation skills to support strategies ranging from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Initiative to Ending Homeless in Alberta, Canada. Sofiat has two Masters, one from University of Oxford on Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation with a focus on Impact Evaluation and from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where she received an MSc. and MPH. Sofiat also received her Bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Sociology focusing on Gender, Health and International Development.

The author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Ashton Applewhite is an internationally recognized expert on ageism. She speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, and is a leading spokesperson for a movement to mobilize against discrimination on the basis of age.

James is the CEO and Company Secretary of Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) and AAG in its capacity as Corporate Trustee of the AAG Research Trust, as well as Executive Officer for both the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - Asia/Oceania Region and the International Longevity Centre Australia.

James has three decades of experience in not-for-profit, tertiary and commercial sectors in Australia, Europe and the UK including at UnitingCare ReGen, beyondblue, University of Melbourne, Mental Illness Fellowship, Cancer Research UK, Oxfam Australia, Comic Relief UK and Toshiba.

Lidia Best is the Chair on National Association of Deafened People and the President of the European Federation of Hard of Hearing People ( EFHOH).She is also a member of the delegation of G3ict to UN and ITU and a member of the Make Listening Safe Working Group at World Hearing Forum, a stakeholder group run by WHO.

Lidia is internationally recognised accessibility expert ,action advocate for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and global ICT standards writer. She brings unique knowledge as expert with lived experience, as a person who is hard of hearing and a cochlear implant user since 2009. Her work has specific focus on accessibility, policy development, innovation, awareness and training.

Lidia’s motto “What do you know ,when you don’t know” is the driving force behind her work, having observed how lack of knowledge holds everyone back regardless of having disability or not. She writes about advocacy and inclusion in her Blog. Recently, Lidia advocacy efforts were recognised in the UK with Heather Jackson Award.

Cynthia Bullock leads the innovation activities across the UK Government’s £98 million Healthy Ageing Challenge supporting the development and delivery of products and services that will allow people to remain active, productive, independent and socially connected across generations for as long as possible.

Cynthia has a background in health research, innovation and commercialisation having trained initially as a Biochemist and Molecular Biologist. Most recently, she led the delivery of Health and Life science programmes at Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency representing over £400 million of investment across therapeutics, MedTech, diagnostics and digital health technologies. Cynthia has an executive MBA.

Barbara found herself behind bars in her late 50’s and promised to make a change for the ‘forgotten women’ she met inside by launching a lingerie brand with a difference.

She decided to create a lingerie brand for serving and former women prisoners, namely BehindBras. The brand reaches out to people with a sense of responsibility, who have concerns for the problems and injustices of society as well as bringing people together, connecting them publicly and emotionally. Using her ambition and experience as a role model to provide employment and self employment opportunities for women, who whatever reason, have been to prison.

BehindBras has two common goals; to design for people who understand her love for lingerie – creating beautiful lingerie; whilst supporting her vision to provide support, new skills and meaningful employment for former women prisoners, in the fashion, retail and creative industries.

The brand empowers women to become part of her dream of producing the finest lingerie for true lingerie enthusiasts, connecting those who appreciate the finest lingerie with women in prison by providing a unique training programme. This enables these former prisoners the chance to be financially sustainable in their chosen careers or business women supporting themselves and their families, whilst allowing our customers to continue looking and feeling fabulous!

As a self starter with clear priorities, Barbara contributes to her cause by forming partnerships with organisations connected with the criminal justice system, fashion and retail industries forming collaborative projects to help the beneficiaries of this new venture.

As a purpose driven entrepreneur specialising in lingerie, she trained at London School of Fashion for lingerie designing to understand the intimate apparel industry. With the love of all things associated with fashion, Barbara now uses this passion towards reducing reoffending by up-skilling former women prisoners - this is basically what makes her tick!

VC is the former MP for Twickenham for 20 years until he retired in 2019. Was Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the Coalition from 2010-15. He was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017-19.

Before becoming an MP he had a wide variety of roles in the private and public sector and was Chief Economist for Shell.

He is now Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE and has visiting professorships at St Mary’s, Nottingham and Birmingham City. He is the author of several books including Money and Power and The Chinese Conundrum published this year.

Dr Lisa Cameron is the MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow

Lisa grew up in the Westwood area of East Kilbride where she went to school. Since qualifying she has served the public at Hairmyres Hospital, Wishaw General Hospital, Dykebar Hospital and the State Hospital. She is an Expert Witness within the Scottish Court system working in cases of childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence.

Lisa has been an active local Union Representative over the past twelve years, campaigning for worker’s rights, pay, pensions and issues of discrimination and equality.

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Martin is the Director of Fair by Design which exists to end the poverty premium – the extra costs poor people pay for essential services like energy, credit and insurance. With a background in consumer advocacy, grant-making and regulation, he has held a range of positions, all with the common objective of placing low income and vulnerable people at the heart of policy-making.

Martin is a Financial Inclusion Commissioner, a member of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s Consumer Protection Advisory Committee and an Adviser to the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. He has been a board member of the Association of Charitable Foundations, the Nationwide Foundation, the Institute of Consumer Affairs, as well as a Commissioner for Scope’s Commission on Extra Costs for Disabled People.

Charles Counsell was appointed Chief Executive of The Pensions Regulator (TPR) on 1 April 2019.

Prior to this Charles was Chief Executive at the Money Advice Service (now part of Money and Pensions Service) for nearly two years.
Charles spent six years before this as Executive Director for Automatic Enrolment at TPR where he was responsible for the successful roll-out of this programme across the UK, working alongside the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In his time at TPR, the automatic enrolment programme led to over 7.5 million workers newly saving into a workplace pension from over 500,000 employers.

Charles was awarded an OBE in 2017 for services to workplace pension reform.

He has spent much of his career setting up and leading major change programmes in both the private and public sector in the UK and overseas.

Charles is also a Trustee of South Somerset Citizens Advice.

Josephine Cumbo was appointed Global Pensions Correspondent for the Financial Times in 2020.

Born and raised in Perth, Australia, Josephine travelled to the UK in the 1990s, before joining the FT as a reporter in 1997. She began to cover pensions in 2014 and has since become recognised as an expert in UK corporate, workplace and personal pensions policy. She has won more than 15 awards in the UK for her pensions reporting.

Prior to joining the FT, Josephine worked as a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, cutting her teeth as a journalist in the rugged far north of Western Australia.

Josephine is also a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, the UK’s highly-respected independent research organisation. She is also a staff representative on the FT’s Pension Governance Committee. Josephine is a regular commentator and columnist on pension issues for TV, radio and magazines in the UK, as well as speaker at political conferences on issues affecting retirement savers.

In 2012, Josephine was a Torchbearer for the London Olympics.

Mims Davies was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment at the Department for Work and Pensions on 26 July 2019.

She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 5 November 2018 to 25 July 2019.

She was previously Assistant Government Whip from January 2018 to November 2018, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales from July 2018 to November 2018.

Wouter De Tavernier works as an economist in the field of pensions and population ageing at the OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. He primarily studies automatic adjustment mechanisms in pension systems and poverty in old age, but also participates in projects with a wider scope on economic and social exclusion in old age. Before joining the OECD, he was involved in academic research in this field while at the universities of Leuven (Belgium), as well as Aalborg (Denmark), where he obtained his PhD.

Sophia joined the ILC in May 2019 as a Research Fellow.

Her work has mainly focussed on understanding the longevity economy, both in the UK and internationally, as well as exploring ways to boost individuals’ retirement prospects in the UK.

Prior to this, she worked as a policy and research officer for ASH Wales, working to inform and influence the tobacco control policy agenda in Wales. Before working at ASH Wales, Sophia worked as a social researcher for the Office for National Statistics, where she worked on publishing statistical releases on key health measures. Sophia has a BSc in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Warwick and an MSc in Economics from the University of Nottingham.

Steve joined ACS in 2015, having previously worked in hospitality and recruitment and graduating with a First Class degree in International Relations with Politics. Steve is responsible for business regulation policy, including employment, business taxation, payments, Sunday trading, post offices, planning and finance. He is responsible for the ACS Employment Group and ACS Property Group, manages research into ACS policy positions, drafts policy briefings and submissions and engages across government. Steve completed the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Diploma in 2019.

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Catherine Foot was appointed as the Director of Phoenix Insights in June 2021.

Catherine is a research and policy expert in ageing and longevity, bringing over 20 years of experience in the field. From 2015 to 2021, she was Director of Evidence at the Centre for Ageing Better. She has also held senior roles with The King’s Fund and Cancer Research UK.
Catherine holds degrees from University of Cambridge and University College London.

Paul joined ILC in August 2021 as our new Head of Partnerships. He has previously worked in the not-for-profit sector for the last 27 years, firstly in campaigning and fundraising and then with the Age Concern/Age UK network since 2005.

He has worked at local, regional and national level within Age UK, and has an MSc in Voluntary Sector Management from Cass Business School. Paul is also Chair of AWOC, a charity supporting people who are ageing without children and working to raise awareness about the issues they face. In his spare time Paul enjoys dog walking, carpentry and repurposing, and community volunteering.

Martin Green has had an extensive career in NGO development, both in the UK and internationally, and is Chief Executive of Care England, the largest representative body for independent social care services in the UK. He is also Chair of the International Longevity Centre, a Trustee of Independent Age, Vice President of The Care Workers Charity, and a Champion of The National Aids Trust.

In 2013 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Social Care to Buckinghamshire New University.

In 2012, in his role as Department of Health Independent Sector Dementia Champion, he led the development of the Dementia Care and Support Compact for The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia.

In 2008 he was named care personality of the year and was awarded an OBE for Services to Social Care in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. In 2019 he was presented with the Health Investor Outstanding Contribution award.

Martin Green writes and broadcasts extensively on social care issues and is on the Editorial Board of Community Care Market News and Care Talk magazine.

Baroness Sally Greengross has been a crossbench (independent) member of the House of Lords since 2000 and Co-Chairs five All-Party Parliamentary Groups: Dementia, Corporate Social Responsibility, Bladder and Bowel Continence Care, Social Care and Ageing and Older People. She is the Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Choice at the End of Life and Longevity, and is Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Equalities. Sally is also Chair of the cross-party Intergenerational Fairness Forum.

Sally is Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre – UK; was Co-President of the ILC Global Alliance from 2010-17 and is now their Special Ambassador; and was a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2006-12.

Baroness Greengross was Director General of Age Concern England from 1987 until 2000. Until 2000, she was joint Chair of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at Kings College London, and Secretary General of Eurolink Age. She is an Ambassador for Alzheimer’s Society, SilverLine and HelpAge International.

Baroness Greengross is a Member of several advisory boards including Fujitsu’s Responsible Business Board.

She is President of the Pensions Policy Institute and the Association of Retirement Housing Managers; a Vice President of the Local Government Association and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries.

Sally is Patron of several organisations including the Association of Retirement Community Operators; Care & Repair England; the Ransackers Association; and Age UK Westminster. Sally holds honorary doctorates from nine UK universities.

Her work on ageing has been recognised by the UN Committee on Ageing and she received an outstanding achievement award from the British Society of Gerontology as well a British Geriatric Society Medal. Sally was UK Woman of Europe in 1990 and has been an Ambassador for the Prince of Wales supporting responsible business practice.

Danielle took up the role of Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in June 2021. Danielle joined us from the charity Rethink Mental Illness where she was Associate Director of Campaigns and Policy. She has previously worked as Director of Compassion in Dying and as Senior Policy Manager at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, leading on policy development relating to sperm, egg and embryo donation. She has also been an Ethics Advisor to the British Medical Association, and a Programme Manager at Help the Aged (now Age UK).

Susana is Senior Director of International Longevity Centre Singapore of Tsao Foundation. She has Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Santo Tomas University, Philippines and Master in Public Administration from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

She had been speaker at several national, regional and international conferences, co-authored several articles, and co-edited a book, ‘Financial Security of Older Women: Perspectives from Southeast Asia (2018)’. Her research and policy interests are ageing and gender, active/successful ageing, financial security, community resilience, empowerment and community development. Susana is Honorary Secretary of Board of Directors at Centre for Seniors, an NGO that promotes total well-being of older persons in Singapore, as well as Honorary Secretary of Gerontological Society of Singapore.

Arun joined the ILC in March 2019 as a Research Fellow.

Arun has mainly worked in the charity sector, most recently within higher education at Goldsmiths College and University of East Anglia’s Students’ Unions in policy and research roles working to improve the barriers facing marginalised students. In both roles, she has acted as a policy advisor, influencing internal university policy and has produced a number of in-depth pieces of research on a wide range of topics such as: religion and belief; mental health; and consumer law. Prior to her work at students’ unions, Arun was a Charity Works graduate and also worked for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in administrative and project roles working on freedom of information and prison reform. Her research interests are in addressing social determinants of health, particularly on the topics of overweight and obesity, mental health, and inter-generational trauma.

Arun has an MSc from King’s College in Global Health, an MA from the School of Advanced Study in Human Rights, and a BA (hons) from the University of Toronto in Sociology and Ethics.

Sharron is a Reader in Psychology and Health at the Division of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield, where she leads the ageing, gender, and sexual health/sexual well-being programme of research. She has worked in this area since 2001, and uses insights from psychology to address discrimination in healthcare and wider society. Sharron co-edited the book Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People, with Catherine Barrett (of Celebrate Ageing), which draws on interdisciplinary research to provide health and social care providers with an evidence-based framework to support the sexual rights of older adults.

Kate Jopling is a policy and strategy consultant, with extensive experience across the fields of health, care and ageing. Kate has particular expertise on loneliness, and has authored several influential reports including the final report of the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, and the recent Campaign to End Loneliness report on Loneliness beyond Covid-19. A former Director of the International Longevity Centre and the Campaign to End Loneliness, and Head of Public Affairs for Help the Aged, Kate has a wealth of experience of building collaborations, supporting learning and influencing policy and practice.

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Anna is the CEO of Tonic Housing, who have recently opened the UK’s first LGBT+ affirming retirement community in central London. She is Co-Chair of HouseProud and a member of the London Housing Panel. Prior to joining Tonic, she was Executive Director of UK Cohousing and active in the growing community-led housing movement, helping to establish new community-led housing hubs across the country and getting the Community Housing Fund launched for community groups to directly access funding. Anna has worked in the property sector for over 30 years, specialising in community-led development, working for housing associations, local authorities and developers.

Gillian Keegan MP was appointed as Minister of State for Care and Mental Health in September 2021, previously she was the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Apprenticeships and Skills.

Nancy Kelley is Chief Executive of Stonewall, the LGBTQ+ human rights organisation, which is part of a global movement for change. This means working with LGBTQ+ activists here in the UK and around the world, as well as with our partners and supporters. Together, we’re building a path towards the world we imagine, where LGBTQ+ people everywhere are free to be themselves and can live their lives to the full.

Diane began her career in television and radio, moving from production to presenting. She has fronted programmes on BBC 1 and 2, Sky News and Channel 4, and hosted a two-hour daily radio show.

She started working in magazines at the BBC and after time as features editor on Having a Baby, then Good Housekeeping, she became the editor of the Marks & Spencer magazine.

Following that, Diane launched a new magazine aimed at the 50+ market, and after a period at the Guardian working on the development of a B-2-B magazine, she was appointed as editor of Woman’s Weekly.

After 10 years at the helm of Woman’s Weekly, Diane was appointed as Creative Director, Events and Craft, overseeing the branding, creative delivery and communications for a number of live shows run by Time Inc UK’s events division.

Since leaving the company Diane has launched and runs her own website and blog - These Are The Heydays. She is the co-producer and presenter of The Extraordinary Ordinary podcast and has a weekly talk slot on Boom Radio.

She is on the Board of Trustees of the International Longevity Centre, a Director of the Women of the Year Lunch, a lay advisor to a cancer care charity, was an advisor on a incubator start-up programme and mentors young journalists.

Professor Andrew King is Deputy Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK where he also co-directs the ‘Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender’ (CRAG). His research has mainly focused on ageing amongst lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people. Andrew has published widely in this field: in books, journal articles and edited collections. Recent books include: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults: Identities, Intersections and Institutions (Routledge 2016), Older LGBT People: Minding the Knowledge Gaps (Routledge, 2018) and Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities: Multidisciplinary International Perspectives (Policy Press, 2019).

Andrew’s LGBT research has been funded by the ESRC, local government and housing associations. Andrew is project lead of CILIA-LGBTQI+ which is comparing intersectional life course inequalities amongst LGBTQI+ citizens in four European countries and is funded by the Norface consortium of European research councils. Andrew is also an associate editor of the journal ‘Ageing and Society’ and has previously edited ‘Sociology’, the journal of the British Sociological Association.

Sophia is Campaigns Manager at the Chartered Insurance Institute. She manages the Ageing/ Later Life campaign which is the next part of the Insuring Futures Initiative. The campaign has two key objectives: supporting the public to start conversations on care and later life resilience earlier and more effectively, and financial services adopting better models to work with families and older consumers. She also volunteers for several disabled rights charities including The Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) where she is a trustee (campaigning).

Sophia is the Founder of a campaign called ‘Ableism and Me’ which she started in response to the discrimination and ableism she has faced as a disabled woman. ‘Ableism and Me’ was created to raise awareness of ableism & fight for disabled people’s rights. Her current social media campaign #DisabledAnd was created to show the world that disabled people have more than one identity or that they are more than just the disabled friend/family member and challenge the media portrayal and public discourse around disabled people.

Sophia has been working in Campaigning and Policy for about 4 years mostly with NGOs in the UK working in social care, disability, international development, and global health. She graduated from Royal Holloway University with a 2.1 (Hons) in Politics, International Relations and Philosophy.

She is a really excited to be a speaker at ILC UK’s yearly conference ‘The Future of Ageing’, to discuss the different intersections of ageism and ableism and how the two impact one another.

Les joined ILC in October 2020 as Head of Global Research and will be working on a range of ILC research projects as well as enhancing our research approach and strategy.

Les is also part-time Professor of Statistics at The Business School (formerly Cass), City University, London, and Managing Director of Mayhew Harper Associates Ltd. His previous experience includes 20 years in the Department of Health and Social Security, the Department of Social Security, HM Treasury and the Office for National Statistics, where he was a director. He is an alumnus of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and a member of the Royal Economic Society.

For most of this time he has specialised in demographic ageing, health and social care, social security and pensions. In 2004, he co-authored a book entitled the ‘Economic Impacts of Population Ageing in Japan’ and in 2010 wrote a commissioned report for the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit entitled ‘The Economic Value of Healthy Ageing and Working Longer’. He completed his PhD in 1979 entitled ‘Urban Hospital Location’, which was published by George Allen and Unwin in 1986 and republished in 2018 by Routledge. He has written innovative reports on housing and pensions for the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation and on social care for DEMOS – two leading London-based think tanks as well various other reports for ILC on a range of topics.

His overseas experience includes spells working on projects in Japan (the economics of ageing), China (pensions), Russia (mortality), Italy (hospital location), Ukraine (women’s reproductive health) and Australia (health service planning). He has published numerous peer reviewed articles and is on the editorial board of two academic journals in his field. He is a member of the steering group for a major project funded by the actuarial profession on diabetes and is also a member of the scientific advisory committee for The Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr (LSCR) at the University of Essen focusing on ageing populations. He is avidly concerned about the levels of inequality in society and how improvements in health should be a key part of the policy response.

Charlotte Moore is a freelance journalist and communications consultant who has specialised in writing about pensions for the past 15 years. She contributes regularly to various specialist magazines such as Professional Pensions, IPE as well as the Pensions and Lifetime Saving Association’s quarterly magazine, Viewpoint. She blogs regularly about pensions on her website to explain how the UK’s pension landscape evolved and what challenges need to be addressed. She also contributes regularly to Times Radio’s Early Breakfast show reviewing the day’s business stories. She works with asset managers and consultancies to improve their external communications.

Communications is her second career; her first job after graduating from the University of Bristol with a degree in Chemistry was working as investment analysts covering the pharmaceutical sector. She has over 25 years either working in or closely observing the financial sector, with a deep understanding of how institutional investors, like pension schemes, operate.

Lily leads ILC-UK’s policy, public affairs and influencing activity in the UK and across the world.

Her work spans all policy areas, from health and care, to intergenerational relations, to the future of work.

She has a particular interest in the prevention of ill health and has spoken on the topic at a number of conferences, workshops and webinars across the world.

She has been quoted in the media, including in The Guardian, Forbes and BBC Radio among others.

Lily sits on the Advisory Board of the Age Action Alliance and previously managed the Innovating for Ageing Awards.

John Penrose has been MP for Weston-super-Mare since 2005. His campaigns to reboot British capitalism so our economy works for the many, not the few, include the Energy Price Cap; making housing cheaper to own or rent by allowing urban owners and developers to Build Up Not Out; making Britain’s economy more generationally-and-socially-just through a UK Sovereign Wealth Fund; and reforming formerly-nationalised utilities (e.g. energy, telecoms, water, rail) to put customers in charge, rather than politicians, bureaucrats or regulators instead.

A successful businessman before he entered politics, John has held a variety of posts since he was elected including PPS to Oliver Letwin, Shadow Business Minister, Tourism & Heritage Minister, Government Whip, Constitution Minister and Northern Ireland Minister. He is currently the Prime Minister’s Anti-Corruption Champion, Chair of the Conservative Policy Forum and sits on the Party’s Policy Board.

Judith Phillips is Deputy Principal (Research), and Professor of Gerontology at the University of Stirling, and is the UKRI Research Director for the Healthy Ageing Challenge. Her research interests are in the social, behavioural and environmental aspects of ageing and she has published and researched widely on environmental aspects of ageing, social care and caregiving.

Kate joined ILC in February 2021 as Head of Projects.

Kate is proud to say that she has spent the last ten years working in the charity sector. For the last four years, she has been CEO of Age UK Croydon, which she found hugely rewarding as well as challenging. Before that, she was Deputy CEO of Manor House Development Trust, a community development charity. Kate has also volunteered for AMREF and a farmers’ rights charity in India. She started her career in the construction sector, setting up a social enterprise to train and employ disadvantaged young people.

Whilst she was CEO, Kate gained a Diploma in Charity Accounting and finished the first year of a Masters in Voluntary Sector Management, which she hopes to continue. She has a BSc and MA in International Development from the University of East Anglia.

She is also a new mum to a little girl, Alex. She plays tag rugby on Saturdays (covid-dependent) with her husband and plays the violin.

Manoj Pradhan is the founder of Talking Heads Macroeconomics, an independent research firm and co-author of the bestseller “The Great Demographic Reversal”. Manoj was most recently Managing Director at Morgan Stanley where he led the Global Economics team. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2005 after serving on the faculty of George Washington University and the State University of New York. Manoj works on thematic global macroeconomics, with a focus on emerging markets. He has a PhD in economics from George Washington University and a Masters in Finance from the London Business School.

Tom Schuller is chair of the Prisoner Learning Alliance. His professional life has been mainly in adult education, as Dean of Continuing Education at Birkbeck and before that as professor of lifelong learning at the University of Edinburgh. He recently stepped down after 10 years as chair of the Governing Board of the Working Men’s College in London. Tom’s latest book - The Paula Principle: how and why women work below their competence level - was published in 2017.

Laura is passionate about social integration, social equity and giving people a voice. Laura joined Re-engage as head of impact in March 2021. Re-engage has been helping to alleviate loneliness for older people across the UK for more than 55 years, with a special focus on the over 75s. Laura’s work includes overseeing all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities, as well as conducting research to better understand the lived experience and needs of older people experiencing loneliness. In 2021 she led a research project into the wants and needs of older LGBT+ people which is now informing the development of a new service at Re-engage specifically to support older LGBT+ people experiencing loneliness and social isolation.

Prior to Re-engage, Laura worked for the anti-prejudice and discrimination charity the Anne Frank Trust and the social integration charity The Challenge. Laura is a qualified history and politics teacher and taught in schools across London before moving to the charity sector.

Caroline is the Chief Executive of the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), having previously been the Partnerships and Commissioning Director. She is responsible for leading the organisation through its transition year as it develops an ambitious new National Strategy and Corporate Strategy.

Caroline joined from the Money Advice Service, where she was Head of UK Debt Advice, responsible for developing the sector’s target operating model and building industry partnerships to support the development of the debt advice quality frameworks and standard financial statement.

Previously, Caroline was the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Money Advisers and has a wealth of commissioning experience.

David has worked in policy and research on ageing and demographic change for 20 years. He holds honorary positions at UCL and Newcastle University

David has presented on longevity and demographic change across the world (from Seoul to Singapore and Sydney to Stormont). David won the Pensions-Net-Work Award for “The most informative speaker 2006-2016”. He is frequently quoted on ageing issues in the national media.

David has a particular interest in older consumers, active ageing, financial services, adult vaccination, and the role of technology in an ageing society. He has a strong knowledge of UK and global ageing society issues, from healthcare to pensions and from housing to transport. He has published reports on a range of topics from transport to technology and health to consumption.

He has worked as an “expert” for the pan-European Age Platform for 15 years. David the former Vice-Chair of the Government’s Consumer Expert Group for Digital Switchover. For ten years he chaired a London based charity (Open Age) which enables older people to sustain their physical and mental fitness, maintain active lifestyles and develop new and stimulating interests.

Prior to joining the ILC, David worked as Head of Policy at Help the Aged where he led a team of 8 policy advisors. David has also worked for environmental and disability organisations in policy and public affairs functions. His other experience includes working as a VSO volunteer in Romania, in Parliament for a Member of Parliament, and with backbench committees.

David is a retired football referee, is married, and has a 13 year old son. He runs (slowly) and cycles (a little quicker) and once scored a penalty against Peter Shilton.

Tim Whitaker is a consultant specialising in policy and communication issues affecting older people and an ageing society. His interests include public engagement, advocacy issues, service change and usage of public spaces. He’s involved with Positive Ageing in London looking at London’s recovery planning post pandemic and is also a Trustee of Wise Age a specialist employment body promoting training and support for workers over 50 in London and challenging ageism in employment.

Researcher at the Learning and Work Institute for the European Midlife Skills Review project, funded by Erasmus Plus and led by the TUC, with partners in Spain, Romania, Italy and Finland. The project develops the peer-supported approach to skills review established in a previous project, strengthens the on-line tool for review (Value My Skills) and will also map the skills used in the tool to the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO).

Previously, Jane led the Mid-Life Career Review project funded by the then Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Elizabeth White, author of 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal (Simon and Schuster) is an aging solutions advocate for older adults facing uncertain work and financial insecurity. When she could not find a book that met her needs during her own bout of long-term unemployment, she wrote it herself. She wrote it as a 62-year-old woman who has lived the stories she describes, and as a Harvard MBA, former retail entrepreneur, and C-suite executive who never expected to land here.

Ms. White is a frequent guest blogger, and speaker at conferences and workshops, and has been named one of the top 50 influencers on aging in the country. Her essays and work have appeared in publications like Barron’s, Forbes, The Huffington Post, MarketWatch, Next Avenue, and The Washington Post. She has been featured prominently in three segments on the PBS NewsHour. And her TEDx Talk has been elevated to the main TED stage where it has garnered over 1.9 million views. Ms. White has been featured on the TED Radio Hour and was recently invited to testify before the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

Paul Willis is an Associate Professor in Social Work and Social Gerontology in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He is also Head of the Centre for Research in Health and Social Care at Bristol and a Senior Fellow of the NIHR School for Social Care Research.

Paul’s research areas include: inclusive housing and care provision for older adults; loneliness, ageing and masculinities; sexuality, care and ageing; and, trans ageing and gender identity.