Speaker Group: Speaker 2024

Alizée Froguel

Alizée Froguel is a Prevention Policy Manager at Cancer Research UK – currently leading on the organisation’s tobacco and e-cigarette policy work. She has previous experience in overweight and obesity policy. Alizée has been at the charity for 7 years, and during her time has held a range of roles. She has a background in… Read more »

Richard Boden

Richard Boden is Deputy Director for Tobacco and Vapes Policy and Legislation within the Department for Health and Social Care. Richard has led on the design and development of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, and prior to this led on the independent Khan Review. Before joining DHSC, he worked at the Department for International Development… Read more »

Dr Alexandria Andrayas

Alex joined the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group (TARG) at the University of Bristol after completing a PhD as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research. Her current research focus aims to increase understanding of how early life experiences, socioeconomic position, mental health and other factors may influence smoking and vaping habits… Read more »

Dr Tom Freeman

Tom Freeman is the Director of the Addiction and Mental Health Group, an interdisciplinary research group bridging the departments of Psychology and Life Sciences at the University of Bath. He is Vice President of the Society for the Study of Addiction, and Senior Editor for the journal Addiction. He is internationally known for his research… Read more »

Pablo Cano Trilla

Pablo Cano Trilla leads the ECigIntelligence/TobaccoIntelligence legal analysis team, currently providing legal and policy tracking for more than 100 countries around the world, together with all US states and other subnational jurisdictions. He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) with Distinction from the University of Aberdeen, and is a law and political science graduate from… Read more »

Prof Coral Gartner

Coral Gartner is a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland, Australia and the Director of the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She has a first-class honours degree in environmental health and a… Read more »

Jeff Weiss

Jeff Weiss is the former Chief Engagement Officer, General Counsel, and Interim President of NJOY, the third largest e-cigarette company in the United States.  An NJOY lawsuit against FDA, culminating in a 2011 D.C. Circuit decision in the company’s favor, paved the way for FDA regulation of non-medicinal nicotine products.  In 2022, NJOY became the… Read more »

Prof Peter Selby

Dr. Peter Selby is a Senior Scientist and Senior Medical Consultant at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is the Vice-Chair, Research and Giblon Professor in Family Medicine, University of Toronto.  His research focuses on innovative methods to understand and treat addictive behaviours and their comorbidities. He uses technology to combine clinical… Read more »

Prof Jamie Brown

Professor Jamie Brown is Director of the UCL Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group and leads a CRUK programme of research to i) provide insights from the Smoking Toolkit Study into population-wide influences on smoking, smoking cessation and vaping and ii) advance the scientific foundation, and further the development of, potentially wide-reach digital behaviour change technologies…. Read more »

Dr Katie East

Katie is a Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) Griffith Edwards Academic Fellow and Research Associate working on projects relating to nicotine and tobacco product perceptions and use, with a focus on youth and young adults. Katie’s Fellowship is based within KCL’s Nicotine Research Group (NRG) but also involves collaborations with KCL’s Department of… Read more »