Morning sessions
Welcome: Nigel Waterson, Chair, ILC-UK
An age of possibilities: Longevity White Paper Chair: Kate Jopling, ILC Associate
Getting longevity on the political agenda	Speakers: David Sinclair, ILC-UK Panellists: Miranda Green, Journalist and commentator, UK politics specialist Andrew Harrop, The Fabian Society Paul Johnson, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Alice Thomson, The Times
Promoting health through the life course Chair: Cynthia Bullock, Innovate UK UKRI
A focus on health span, not life span	Speakers: Dr Hannah Behrendt, Behavioural Insights Team Jennifer Blainey, Novavax Dr Anna Dixon, Reimagining Care Commission Arunima Himawan, ILC-UK Prof. Dame Louise Robinson, Newcastle University
Delivering a decent income Chair: Sue Lewis, ILC-UK
Work and finance that works for longer lives	Speakers: Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Careful Industries Delroy Corinaldi, Black Footballers Partnership Professor Lynda Gratton, London Business School Katie Waldegrave MBE, Now Teach
Keynote: George B. Ploubidis, Professor of Population Health & Statistics, Director of 1958NCDS & 1970BCS, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Afternoon sessions
Solutions for longer lives Chair: Prof. Alexander Evans OBE, Trustee, ILC-UK
Keynote: Lord David Blunkett, Former Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary, and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Open slot debate: The role of food in the 100-year life	Speakers: Tilly Robinson-Miles, Food Train Ros Wilson, VOICE
Open slot debate: The role of physical activity in the 100-year life	Speakers: Professor Stephen Harridge, King’s College London Tom Addison, Policy Manager, The Physiological Society Stephen McPeake, Civic Dollars
Building stronger communities Chair: Janet Sutherland, ILC-UK
Better places, better futures	Speakers: Iain Cassidy, Open Age Andrew Goodacre, British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA) George MacGinnis, UK Research and Innovation Professor Julienne Meyer CBE, Older People’s Housing Task Force Nicola Waterworth, Greater Manchester Ageing Hub
What happens next Chair: Tim Fassam, Trustee, ILC-UK
Have your say: Placing longevity at the heart of policy making	Prof. Alexander Evans OBE, Trustee, ILC-UK David Sinclair, ILC-UK
Closing address: Isabelle Gillespie, ILC-UK
Networking

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Our speakers include:

Tom Addison, Policy Manager, The Physiological Society

Dr Hannah Behrendt, Director of Health and Wellbeing, The Behaviour Insights Team

Jennifer Blainey, Director of Government Affairs for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, Novavax

Lord David Blunkett, Former Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary, and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Dr Cynthia Bullock, Deputy Director, Healthy Ageing Challenge, Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation

Iain Cassidy, CEO, Open Age

Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Founder and Executive Director, Careful Industries

Delroy Corinaldi, Co-founder and Executive Director, Black Footballers Partnership

Dr Anna Dixon, Chair, Reimagining Care Commission

Professor Alexander Evans OBE, Trustee, ILC-UK

Tim Fassam, Trustee, ILC-UK

Isabelle Gillespie, Head of Programmes, ILC-UK

Andrew Goodacre, CEO, British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA)

Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School

Miranda Green, Journalist and commentator, UK politics specialist

Professor Stephen Harridge, Professor of Human & Applied Physiology and Head of the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King’s College London

Andrew Harrop, General Secretary, The Fabian Society

Arunima Himawan, Senior Health Research Lead, ILC-UK

Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Kate Jopling, ILC Associate

Sue Lewis, Trustee, ILC-UK

George MacGinnis, Challenge Director, Healthy Ageing, UK Research and Innovation

Stephen McPeake, CEO, Civic Dollars

Professor Julienne Meyer CBE, Chair of Older People’s Housing Task Force

Professor George B. Ploubidis, Professor of Population Health & Statistics, Director of 1958NCDS & 1970BCS, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Professor Dame Louise Robinson, Professor of Primary Care and Ageing, Newcastle University

Tilly Robinson-Miles, Policy and Parliamentary Engagement Manager, Food Train Scotland

David Sinclair, Chief Executive, ILC-UK

Janet Sutherland, CIHM, AoU, Trustee, ILC-UK

Alice Thomson, Journalist and columnist, The Times

Katie Waldegrave MBE, Co-Founder and Director, Now Teach

Nigel Waterson, Chair, ILC-UK Board of Trustees

Nicola Waterworth, Strategic Programme Lead – Ageing in Place, Greater Manchester Ageing Hub

Ros Wilson, Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Volunteer, VOICE

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Dr Hannah Behrendt, Director of Health and Wellbeing, The Behaviour Insights Team

Dr Hannah Behrendt is Director of Health and Wellbeing at the Behavioural Insights Team. She has been with BIT for the last 9 years, working with a wide range of partners in the UK and across the world to deliver projects applying behavioural insights to improve health and wellbeing. Hannah combines in-depth experience of policy development and evaluation with deep expertise in behavioural science. Before joining BIT, Hannah spent several years at the World Bank, working on environmental economics and the World Development Report on ‘Mind and Society’. Hannah holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Edinburgh as well as an MPhil in Economics and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.

Jennifer Blainey, Director of Government Affairs for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, Novavax

Jennifer has spent 15 years working in healthcare policy and government affairs across a wide range of policy areas including public health, life sciences, cancer and long-term conditions. She has been published in Pharmaceutical Marketing, Health Service Journal and the British Journal of Healthcare Management. Prior to joining Novavax she worked for the biopharmaceutical company Celgene and a range of communications agencies advising pharmaceutical companies on public affairs strategies.

Lord David Blunkett, Former Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary, and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Rt Hon Professor the Lord David Blunkett was awarded a peerage in the dissolution Honours List in 2015. He was the MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 1987-2015, serving for eight years in Tony Blair’s cabinet as Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions respectively.

Lord Blunkett was formerly the Chair of Social Services in the City of Sheffield, and was Shadow Health Secretary in 1992 – 1994.

He is currently Professor of Politics in Practice at the University of Sheffield, chairs the University of Law, is Chair of the Advisory Board to FutureLearn and is involved with numerous charitable organisations locally and nationally.

He is an avid supporter of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

Dr Cynthia Bullock, Deputy Director, Healthy Ageing Challenge, Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation

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 and then obtained an MBA at Imperial College London. Previously, 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.

Iain Cassidy, CEO, Open Age

Iain is the CEO of Open Age, a member-led charity that is focused on promoting positive ageing across its membership and beyond. He has a degree in Chemistry and started his career in the world of investment banking, working for Goldman Sachs in New York before moving to London.

Iain began his charity career as one of only twelve members of staff at the then fledgling Teach First, before transitioning into a fundraising position at Age Concern England and eventually heading up the national Corporate Partnerships team at Age UK. With several senior positions subsequent to his work at Age UK, Iain now has over 15 years’ experience working for charitable organisations.

Open Age’s latest work is targeted at activating older adults’ potential through interactive online activities via a purpose-built online platform. That will be launched in 2024. Iain sees this as a key solution to addressing social loneliness, and improving physical and mental wellbeing in ageing populations.

Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Founder and Executive Director, Careful Industries

Rachel Coldicutt is a researcher and strategist specialising in the social impact of new and emerging technologies. She is founder and executive director of research consultancy Careful Industries and its sister social enterprise Promising Trouble.

She was previously founding CEO of responsible technology think tank Doteveryone where she led influential and ground-breaking research into how technology is changing society and developed practical tools for responsible innovation. Prior to that, she spent almost 20 years working at the cutting edge of new technology for companies including the BBC, Microsoft, BT, and Channel 4, and was a pioneer in the digital art world. Rachel is an advisor, board member and trustee for a number of companies and charities and a member of the Ofcom Content Board. In 2019, Rachel was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours for services for the digital society.

Delroy Corinaldi, Co-founder and Executive Director, Black Footballers Partnership

Delroy Corinaldi is the co-founder and Executive Director, Black Footballers Partnership, a voice and support for black footballers for change on an off the pitch.

He used to be Director of External Affairs, StepChange Debt Charity, leading it’s team on payday lending reform and relationships with policymakers, the banks and the media, and Senior Public Affairs Officer at Which? working as part of a team on pension and mortgage endowment misselling as well as across utilities and competition policy.

During his career he has been Strategic Director for David Lammy MP and advisor to Diane Abbott MP, as well as an advisor to the Doreen Lawrence Covid Review. In other roles he has been part of the team at FIPRA, a leader in political and regulatory processes, advising business on consumer facing campaigns, special advisor to the BVI government and in his own consultancy advising on environmental and retail campaigns.

Delroy also co-founded the Financial Inclusion Centre and Digibridge, non-profits established to close the financial inclusion and digital divide respectively. He currently serves as Trustee for New Philanthropy Capital, The Daniel Phelan Trust and High Trees Community Trust, having previously been elected onto the board of Terrence Higgins Trust.

Delroy and his work for Black Footballers Partnership has appeared in the Financial Times, the Times, on the BBC and CNN as well as Sky Sports News and ITV News amongst others. Delroy was educated in Manchester, lives in London and calls Wolverhampton home.

Dr Anna Dixon MBE, Chair, Reimagining Care Commission

Anna Dixon is a strategy, governance and policy consultant working with national charities and organisations in the health and social care sectors. She brings over 20 years’ experience in health and social care, with expertise in ageing and public health. She is an effective influencer and leader having held a number of senior positions including Director of Strategy and Chief Analyst at the Department of Health and Social Care and Director of Policy at the King’s Fund. She also brings insights from her work internationally for the World Health Organisation and European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

A former Chief Executive of the Centre for Ageing Better and trustee on several Boards, Anna has a deep understanding of charity governance and has led the development and delivery of both organisational and national strategies. She received an MBE for services to wellbeing in later life in the 2021 New Year’s Honours List. Anna chaired the Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care (June 2021-Jan 2023) and served as a member of the Advisory Group to the Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland (Sept 2020-Jan 2021).

Professor Alexander Evans OBE, Trustee, ILC-UK

Alexander is Professor in Practice in Public Policy at the London School of Economics where he teaches ‘Anticipatory Policymaking’ and directs the MPA in Data Science and Public Policy.

A career diplomat, he has worked as an adviser to the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street, Strategy Director in the Cabinet Office, and Director Cyber in the Foreign Office. He has served as Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India and (briefly) Pakistan, led a United Nations Security Council expert group, and been a senior adviser at the U.S. Department of State. He has also worked for think-tanks in London, New York and Washington DC.

His former academic posts include serving as the Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, as a Senior Fellow at Yale, and as a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. He has a Ph.D. in politics and was a Yale World Fellow.

Tim Fassam, Trustee, ILC-UK

Tim Fassam is Public Affairs Director at Phoenix Group, where he is responsible for public policy and government relations. Prior to joining Phoenix Tim was Director of Government Relations and Policy at UK wealth management trade association PIMFA, MD of Public Affairs, Policy and Research at TheCityUK and Director of UK Public Affairs at Prudential. He has previously acted as a trustee of international relations think tank Asia House and international development charity TFAC.

Isabelle Gillespie, Head of Programmes, ILC-UK

Isabelle has worked in policy, government affairs and strategic communications for almost a decade.

Isabelle has a particular interest in women’s financial empowerment, mental health and wellbeing, and the role that city design and planning has in building ideal communities to live, work and play.

She joined the ILC in Summer 2023 after working for a Cabinet Minister in Australia where she developed Government-wide strategies, new policies and oversaw the roll out of various initiatives. Isabelle also spent many years working across both the traditional and digital media space and on a variety of political campaigns.

In her spare time, Isabelle enjoys walking, cooking, travelling and seeing her favourite musicians in concert.

Andrew Goodacre, CEO, British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA)

BIRA CEO Andrew Goodacre has devoted his career to strengthening Britain’s high streets and the communities they support. Since taking over BIRA’s leadership in 2018, Andrew has expanded membership by nearly a third, by ensuring the needs of independent retailers are heard by government decision makers. Andrew has appeared before numerous parliamentary select committees to present evidence on a range of high street concerns – from the impact of the pandemic to supply chain inflation. His representations were pivotal in paving the way for the 2019 Retail Rates Discount, which greatly reduced the tax burden on smaller retailers. Andrew represents BIRA on the Department of Business Retail Sector Council and serves as a member of the British Retail Consortium’s Policy Board and the Welsh Retail Council.

Prior to leading BIRA, Andrew spent many years in the hospitality industry, which helped to reinforce his belief of the importance of local high streets to the fabric of local communities and their contribution to the government’s levelling-up agenda. He started his career in hospitality, spending 25 years working in the retail divisions of national breweries and pub companies. Andrew was also formerly a member of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) before becoming the CEO of the Residential Landlords Association in 2013.

Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School

Lynda Gratton is one of the foremost global thought-leaders on the future of work, named by ‘Business Thinkers 50’ as one of the top fifteen business thinkers and described as a ‘rock star’ teacher. Lynda is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, where she received the ‘teacher of the year’ award and designed and directs ‘the future of work’ elective, one of the school’s most popular electives. Her research on hybrid work was featured as the cover article for Harvard Business Review in May 2021 and she explores issues of work in her MIT Sloan column. Over a decade ago Lynda founded HSM-Advisory, which has supported more than ninety companies around the world to future-proof their business strategy. Her eleven books, including Redesigning Work and The 100-Year Life, have sold over a million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages.

Lynda serves as a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and co-chairs the WEF Council on Work, Wages and Job Creation. Lynda has sat on the advisory board of Japan’s Prime Minister Abe and serves on the advisory board of a number of global companies.

Miranda Green, Journalist and commentator, UK politics specialist

Miranda Green is a journalist and commentator who specialises in UK politics. After financial journalism training in the City she moved into the Westminster political sphere, working for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons for several years before going back into the BBC then the Financial Times. She has worked on a variety of editing and reporting jobs for the paper over the years, including as education correspondent, and has been a regular voice on broadcast media talking about politics and public policy.

Professor Stephen Harridge, Professor of Human & Applied Physiology and Head of the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King’s College London

Stephen Harridge obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham and then undertook 3 years of post-doctoral research in Scandinavia at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre (Denmark) with Professor Bengt Saltin. He then held faculty appointments at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and in the Department of Physiology at University College London, where he was also a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow. In 2005 he was appointed Professor of Human & Applied Physiology at King’s College London.

In 2010 he established and is currently Director of the Centre for Human & Applied Physiological Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine). He is also co-Director of Ageing Research at King’s. Since 2012 he has been Editor in Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports and is a Fellow of the Physiological Society.

His research is multi-disciplinary, using single cell through to whole-body exercise physiology approaches with the aim of increasing our understanding of human ageing with a particular interest in skeletal muscle. A distinct focus has been on the positive role that exercise plays in modulating our physiology as we age.

Andrew Harrop, General Secretary, The Fabian Society

Andrew has been general secretary of the Fabian Society since Autumn 2011 and in that time has led the society’s research on economic and social policy as well as the future of the British left. In 2022-23 he led a project reporting to the Labour Party on developing a National Care Service. At the Fabians, he has also written reports on pensions reform, older people’s social care and older people’s housing. He was previously director of policy and public affairs for Age UK and before that was head of policy at Age Concern England, and a researcher for the New Policy Institute and a backbench Labour MP. At Age UK, he led the charity’s work on the introduction of age discrimination legislation, including a successful campaign to outlaw mandatory retirement ages.

Arunima Himawan, Senior Health Research Lead, ILC-UK

Arun joined the ILC in March 2019 as a Research Fellow. She leads on ILC’s global health programme of work and currently manages the ILC’s prevention programme. She has also led on a number of other health projects, ranging from medication adherence to structural heart disease and adult immunisation. She is a member of the Structural Heart Disease Coalition, the ILC Global Alliance Long-term Care Working Group and the ILC Global Alliance Gender and Ageing committee.

In addition to global health, her interests include: generational discourse, social inequalities, and financial wellbeing. Prior to ILC, Arun worked at Goldsmiths College and the University of East Anglia in policy and research roles, influencing internal university policy to improve the student experience.

Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in the UCL Policy Lab and at the UCL department of economics.

He was for 10 years a member of the UK Climate Change Committee, and has served on the council of the ESRC and of the Royal Economic Society. Paul led reviews of pension auto-enrolment and of inflation measurement for the UK government, and of fiscal devolution for the Northern Ireland executive.

Previous roles have included time as chief economist at the Department for Education and as director of public spending at HM Treasury, where he also served as deputy head of the government economic service.

Paul published the Sunday Times bestseller “Follow the Money” in 2023. He was appointed CBE in the 2018 birthday honours.

Kate Jopling, ILC Associate

Kate Jopling is a policy and strategy consultant, with extensive experience of working with voluntary sector organisations across the fields of health, care and ageing. Kate has worked extensively on loneliness, and has authored several influential reports including the final report of the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness. 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 influencing policy and practice.

Sue Lewis, Trustee, ILC-UK

Previously a senior civil servant in the Treasury, Sue has been an independent board member and consultant for the past 12 years. Her current roles include Specialist Adviser to the Treasury sub-committee on financial services regulation, and lay member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Regulatory Board. Sue is also a Trustee of Surviving Economic Abuse, and the FairBanking Foundation.

Sue previously chaired the independent Financial Services Consumer Panel, which influences the Financial Conduct Authority’s policies and rules in the interests of financial services consumers. She was also a Trustee Director at leading master trust The People’s Pension, where she was responsible for member engagement, and a Trustee of StepChange debt charity.

Internationally, Sue has worked with the OECD and Alliance for Financial Inclusion on financial consumer protection, financial literacy, and financial inclusion. She recently advised the Central Bank of Uzbekistan on how to integrate consumer protection into its financial services legislation. Sue was also a member representative on EIOPA’s Occupational Pension Stakeholder Group.

George MacGinnis, Challenge Director, Healthy Ageing, UK Research and Innovation

George MacGinnis leads the £98 million Healthy Ageing Challenge, a research and innovation programme supporting the UK Government’s Ageing Society Grand Challenge to ensure that people can enjoy at least 5 extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035, while narrowing the gap between the experience of the richest and poorest.

Stephen McPeake, CEO, Civic Dollars

Stephen has been working in the technology industry for 25 years and has spent the last 10 focusing on Smart Cities solutions and citizen engagement technology including the ReportAll app and more recently Civic Dollars. Civic Dollars is an award-winning community currency platform that is designed to improve public health by incentivising activity by encouraging people to spend more time in parks and open spaces.

Stephen understands the role technology can play to enhance longevity through health, wellbeing and community spirit in urban and rural settings and believes that technology solutions should be used to improve the lives of citizens in an ethical manner.

Professor Julienne Meyer CBE, PhD, Chair of Older People’s Housing Task Force

Julienne is Professor Emerita of Nursing: Care for Older People at City, University of London, with Visiting Professorships at University of Hertfordshire and Ulster University. Since retirement in 2019, in addition to her on-going research commitments, Julienne has worked as an Associate of the King’s Fund co-leading the ‘Care Home, Housing, Health and Social Care: Learning Network’ and, together with Rt Hon Paul Burstow and Sir David Pearson CBE, she co-chaired the ‘SCIE Commission on the Role of Housing on the Future of Care and Support’. She is a Non-Executive Director for Elizabeth Finn Homes Ltd and Trustee for My Home Life Charity. In April 2023, she was appointed by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Department of Health and Social Care as Chair to the Older People’s Housing Taskforce.

Drawing on her skills as a former registered nurse and qualified teacher, she uses collaborative approaches to bring about whole systems change and reflect on the lessons learnt from attempts to improve practice. Her style of working is evidence-based, relationship-centred, appreciative, and action-oriented.

Her expertise in aged care has long been recognized internationally. She was Vice Chair of the Global Ageing Network (international network of leaders in ageing services, housing, research, technology and design) and has held Adjunct Professorships in Australia (University of South Australia, Griffiths University, Federation University Australia) and America (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
In 2015, Julienne was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s New Year honours for contribution to Nursing and Care for Older People and was named by the University of London as one of their 150 leading women (1868-2018).

Professor George B. Ploubidis, Professor of Population Health & Statistics, Director of 1958NCDS & 1970BCS, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies

George is Professor of Population Health and Statistics at the UCL Social Research Institute and Director of the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies. His research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health, well-being and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focusses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error. Prior to joining UCL he held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Cambridge.

Professor Dame Louise Robinson, Professor of Primary Care and Ageing, Newcastle University

Professor Dame Louise Robinson, is an academic GP and Professor of Primary Care and Ageing at Newcastle University. She was the first GP to be awarded a prestigious NIHR Professorship. Professor Robinson also holds the first UK Regius Professorship in Ageing.

Louise leads a research programme focused on improving quality of life and quality of care for older people, especially those with dementia. She leads 1 of only 3 Alzheimer Society national Centres of Excellence on Dementia Care. Louise was primary care lead for the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge and is a member of the National Dementia Care Guidelines development group.

Tilly Robinson-Miles, Policy and Parliamentary Engagement Manager, Food Train

Tilly Robinson-Miles is an expert in older people’s food security. She is a Social Scientist and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She is currently Policy and Parliamentary Engagement Manager for the Scottish National Charity – Food Train. Through her work at Food Train, including it’s innovative ‘Eat Well Age Well Project’ (which works to tackle malnutrition amongst older people living at home), Tilly has led the way in Scotland, the UK and further afield advocating for and championing the experiences of older people and food. This includes ensuring the wider social and preventative value of food, interconnections between health, wellbeing and food and right to food are recognised at all levels of policy, most notably in the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act.

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David Sinclair, Chief Executive, ILC-UK

David has worked in policy and research on ageing and demographic change for 20 years.

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 housing to transport.

David has presented on longevity and demographic change across the world (from Seoul to Singapore and Sydney to Stormont). And he has published reports on a range of topics including transport, technology, health and consumption.

David has worked as an expert for the pan-European Age Platform for 15 years and is 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.

Janet Sutherland, CIHM, AoU, Trustee, ILC-UK

Janet has over 30 years’ experience in housing and regeneration, in local government, housing associations, the voluntary and private sectors. Her work includes neighbourhood renewal, effective community engagement, urbanism and housing for older people, including published research. She has held senior positions with the London Boroughs of Lewisham, where she was Head of Strategic Housing and Regulatory Services, and Camden, and was Director, JTP Cities with JTP architects. Janet is Vice Chair of Peabody Trust’s Care and Support Committee, and a Director of Groundwork South. She is Chair of the u3a national Future Lives Group, and on the Crouch End Neighbourhood Forum. She was a Director of the Academy of Urbanism.

Alice Thomson, Journalist and columnist, The Times

Alice Thomson is a columnist and interviewer at The Times. A former Times trainee, she became a foreign correspondent, feature writer and political reporter for the paper before moving to The Daily Telegraph as a columnist, restaurant reviewer and leader writer. She returned to The Times in 2008.

Katie Waldegrave MBE, Co-Founder and Director, Now Teach

My working life began as a teacher in the first cohort of Teach First. From there I became Head of History at Cranford Community College.

In 2007, I started the literacy charity First Story. In 2016, Lucy Kellaway and I started Now Teach – a charity which brings career changers into teaching and supports them to accelerate their impact. It has been a great privilege to see 800+ Now Teachers becoming a force for good in schools.

More recently I’ve launched Now Foster, an initiative to support more people to become foster carers. My guiding principle with both Now Teach and Now Foster is that as we live longer lives, we can have multiple careers and roles in society. It is my firm belief that – correctly harnessed – the skills and experiences of the ageing population will be part of the solution for some of the most intractable problems of the next generation. I’ve seen first-hand the mutual benefit of career change to both Now Teachers and their students.

As Director, I try to balance thinking about how to grow and improve Now Teach with the day-to-day dramas and joys of running any organisation. In the rest of my life I try to bring up three small people while promising myself there will one day be a second book!

I studied history at Oxford and have a PhD in creative writing. My first book, a biography of the daughters of Wordsworth and Coleridge, was published by Penguin Random House in 2013. I’ve also taught at Ashoka University in Delhi.

Nigel Waterson, Chair, ILC-UK Board of Trustees

Nigel Waterson has been a Trustee of the ILC since 2010. He was formerly a Conservative MP and Shadow Pensions Minister and Shadow Minister for Older People. He was also a long-serving Chair of the All Party Group for Older People at Westminster. Nigel was until recently Chair of NOW:Pensions, the third largest master trust in the UK, and has also been Chair of the Equity Release Council. He is a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and a member of the Pensions Management Institute. Nigel is an independent professional pension trustee. Nigel was appointed as Chair of the ILC Board in July 2023.

Nicola Waterworth, Strategic Programme Lead – Ageing in Place, Greater Manchester Ageing Hub

Nicola is an experienced social policy leader creating systems change through enabling people to collaborate at their best. As Strategic Lead for Ageing in Place at Greater Manchester Ageing Hub, GMCA, Nicola leads the Ageing in Place Pathfinder. This £4 million investment is a partnership using co-production to test new ways to support older people to live well for longer with better health and connections in their own local community and learning how to sustain and scale this work across the city region.

Nicola has had a career in local authority policy, strategy and commissioning, social enterprise and gender equality sectors championing collaboration, co-production and social investment to create change and tackle inequality. An experienced coach and facilitator, Nicola is co-author of ‘Women, Power & Politics: what’s changed in 100 years?’ for the British Council and was a founder of Find It Film, using film to explore the greater diversity in sports and outdoor adventure.

Ros Wilson, Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Volunteer, VOICE

Ros is a Public and Patient Involvement volunteer for VOICE, based at Newcastle University and the National Innovation Centre for Ageing. She has been involved in many healthy ageing projects including, the Healthy Ageing Challenge supporting the UK Government’s Ageing Society Grand Challenge, as a facilitator for a Mediterranean Diet and Physical Exercise for Alzheimer’s Research, and for a James Lind Alliance PSP.

 

David Sinclair, ILC-UK

 

Arunima Himawan, ILC-UK

 

Prof. Dame Louise Robinson, Newcastle University

 

Katie Waldegrave MBE, Now Teach

 

Delroy Corinaldi, Black Footballers Partnership

 

George B. Ploubidis, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies

 

Ros Wilson, VOICE

 

Professor Stephen Harridge, King’s College London, and Tom Addison, The Physiological Society

 

Stephen McPeake, Civic Dollars

 

George MacGinnis, UK Research and Innovation

 

Iain Cassidy, Open Age

News

22/08/2023

Longevity experts develop a plan to maximise the opportunities of longer lives

The International Longevity Centre (ILC), the UK’s leading authority on demographic change, has embarked on a programme of work to develop a new Longevity White Paper, identifying the changes we need to make to grasp the opportunities of population ageing, and longer lives.

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16/08/2023

Open slot submissions

We invite you to apply for the opportunity to speak at our Future of Ageing conference, on Thursday 7 December 2023, at the Wellcome Collection, London.

So what is your ‘one solution’ for ageing populations that would give more hope for the future? The deadline for applications is 9.00am on Friday 15 September 2023.

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Previous conferences

Future of Ageing 2023 is our ninth annual Future of Ageing conference. Take a look at some of the highlights from our previous conferences below.

• Future of Ageing 2022
• Future of Ageing 2021
• Future of Ageing 2020
• Future of Ageing 2019
• Future of Ageing 2018

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If you’re interested in helping to shape the agenda of the UK’s main conference focussed on longevity, please get in touch with Paul Goulden at PaulGoulden@ilcuk.org.uk.

 

 

 

 

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The terms of the venue and the terms of other applicable third parties may also apply to you.

You agree that you will behave (i) in accordance with our and any other relevant party’s (such as the venue) reasonable requests and instructions and (ii) appropriately, lawfully and not in a disproportionately disruptive or antisocial manner.

Where we deem that it is necessary to do so we may at our discretion change the format, content, programme, speakers or venue. Should we do this we will endeavour to notify you.

If any such change results in a material disadvantage to you such as it being a material change to the core purpose or content or venue of the event we will inform you as soon as reasonably possible and you may at your discretion attend the event in its changed form or cancel your booking and receive a refund of any monies paid, less a £50 administrative fee.

We may have to suspend or cancel the event if we experience an emergency or circumstances that are beyond our reasonable control. You may cancel your booking under such circumstances. If we cancel the event due to an emergency or circumstances outside of our control we will provide a full refund of any monies paid, however we are unable to cover consequential losses. The maximum refund that you will receive is limited to the exact fee that we charged you.

If we fail to comply with this agreement, we are responsible for loss or damage that you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of the agreement or our negligence. Loss or damage is foreseeable if they were an obvious consequence of our breach or if they were contemplated by you and us at the time we entered into this agreement.

You shall be responsible for any loss or damage to any of your property unless we have caused any such loss or damage.

Your booking is not transferable to any other person unless you give ILC written notice at least five working days before the event takes place.

Payment and cancellation

You or your organisation must pay ILC-UK Services Ltd the full price for the booking at the time of booking or on receipt of our invoice or otherwise in accordance with our payment instructions.

A receipt for payment will be issued on your request. Unless we have stated otherwise, the fee is inclusive of those refreshments and written materials provided in connection with the event that we are responsible for providing.

Unless otherwise indicated prices expressed exclude VAT.

Payment must be received by us in cleared funds at least three working days before the date of the event.

You may cancel your attendance at any time before the event and we will issue a refund in accordance with the below cancellation conditions:

• All cancellations are subject to a £50 administrative fee which will be deducted from the refunded amount.
• Cancellations made within 14 days of the event – 50% of the ticket cost will be retained by ILC-Services Ltd.
• Cancellations made within 7 days of the event – non-refundable.

GDPR

Where you have indicated you are happy for us to do so, your personal details will be securely retained by ILC. These details will be used to keep you up to date with news related to the ILC. Your details will not be shared with third parties.

Please refer to our Data Protection Notice for more information.