UKCO 2025 Plenary Speakers
Plenary Speakers
John Speakman
Speakman's work focuses on the causes and consequences of variation in energy balance, and in particular the factors that limit expenditure, the genetic and environmental drivers of obesity and the energetic contribution to ageing. He has ... Read more
Professor Naveed Sattar
Naveed Sattar, Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow, UK, is internationally recognised in cardiometabolic disease, with epidemiology, mechanistic and trial expertise. He has contributed to several other randomised ... Read more
Dr Jules Goodlet-Rowley
Jules has led the unit in Scottish Government for almost 5 years and has worked across a diverse range of government policy areas since 2008. Her areas of responsibility are broad but within diet she is currently working on how policy can ... Read more
Claire Hislop
Claire is a registered public health nutritionist who has worked in the public health field in Scotland for over twenty five years. Her current role is as Organisational Lead – Food & Physical Activity at Public Health Scotland where she ... Read more
Dr Gillian Purdon
Dr Gillian Purdon manages a team of registered public health nutritionists to publish a robust national picture of trends in diet and nutrition and disseminate the science and evidence base to influence public health nutrition policy ... Read more
Ken Clare
Ken is PPIE led at Leeds Beckett University and cofounder of the Obesity Voices Hub, and will be co-presenting with Louise Ells, on the lived experience work we have codeveloped over the past 5 years. Ken has a lifelong experience of living ... Read more
Professor Louisa Ells
Louisa Ells is Professor of Obesity, and Co-Director of the Obesity Institute at Leeds Beckett University. She is a registered public health nutritionist and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, with a specialist interest in ... Read more
