Dr Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor of Law at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris and Global Clinical Professor at New York University School of Law. Alberto’s research has been centered on the role of - and need for – evidence and public input in domestic and supranational policymaking. In particular, he has been focusing on and promoting the study of the emerging law and policy of risk regulation in both the EU and the WTO legal orders. He has explored, in particular, the use of scientific evidence and behavioural research - as drawn from psychology, cognitive sciences and economics - in regulatory decision-making and in the judicial review of science-based measures by courts. At present, he is working on the legal implications and potential contribution of behavioural research in policymaking across policy areas. Due to his commitment to bridge the gap between academic research and policy action, he regularly provides advice to a variety of NGOs and governments across the world as well as international organizations, such as the the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Health Organisation, on various aspects of , international regulatory cooperation, international trade and global health law as well as evidence-based policymaking. Originally from Italy, Alemanno is a graduate of the and Harvard Law School. He holds a PhD in International Law and Economics from . Prior to entering academia full-time, he clerked at the Court of Justice of the European Union, worked as a Teaching Assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges and qualified as an attorney at law in New York. He is the founder and editor of the European Journal of Risk Regulation and the co-founder of TheGoodLobby, an innovative skill-based matching organization connecting people with expertise and knowledge with civil society organizations that need them. He established the Summer Academy in Global Food Law & Policy in 2008. Today it has become the leading training programme for professionals, policymakers and scholars committed to a more sustainable and fairer food supply chain. Alberto Alemanno was appointed Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2015.

Dr Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh, Jordan National born on February 1960, He is an International expert in Nutrition, holding PhD, MSc, PGD, and BSc from Jordan University. He is working with World Health Organization as a Regional Adviser in Nutrition in Eastern Mediterranean Region since 2009. He is working with three key departments: NCDs, Health Protection and Promotion and Emergency Departments. He worked more than 20 years with World Food Programme as Deputy Country Director, Head of Programmes and International Expert in many countries i.e. Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Malawi, Jordan and Iraq. He is a lecturer in International nutrition policies at Vienna University for Post graduate students. He worked also with Public sector for more than 8 years as Food Quality Control Officer and Clinical Dietitian He is an expert, and programme manager who simultaneously manages multiple international executive functions including nutrition policies and strategies, research and capacity building programme; addressing double burden of malnutrition, maternal and child health, and diet related non-communicable diseases. Highly energetic, results-oriented leader with an entrepreneurial attitude. Visionary Operations Executive with solid experience managing all levels of multiple projects including budgeting and administration.

Wenche Barth Eide is Associate Professor emeritus at the Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. Originally from biology she received postgraduate nutrition training at the University of London to help build up a new Nordic academic nutrition program in Oslo from the late sixties. Here she introduced early the then poorly developed aspects of socioeconomic and political aspects of public and community nutrition, and of agriculture and food policy in setting premises for food and nutrition security. In an academic break she served as nutrition advisor to IFAD in Rome (1989-95) and was later a board member of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Over four decades she has worked to link food and nutrition security to the international human rights system especially with regard to adequate food and health, and has a long experience from academic, NGO and UN collaboration in promoting such linkages in research, education and policy. She has been active in developing and promoting human rights based options in academic nutrition training and research, including with universities in developing countries. Among her publications she co-edited a two- volume book on ‘Food and Human Rights in Development’ (2005 and 2007). In 2015 she received The Royal Norwegian Order of Merit with Commander’s rank for her contributions to the interpretation of the right to food as a human right. Currently she coordinates an interdisciplinary research and action network on Food, Human Rights and Corporations (FoHRC) which seeks to interpret the UN Business and Human Rights Guiding Principles for the food sector.

Oliver Bartlett is a lecturer in law at the University of Liverpool. He researches on public health governance and the theory and ethics of public health law, with a specific interest in the role of law in the prevention of addiction. Oliver began his research at Durham University, where he completed an MJur on the regulation of alcohol advertising by the EU. His PhD research went on to investigate how law can be used as part of a holistic, horizontal and multilevel approach to combatting addiction. His thesis (to be completed shortly) presents justifications for the use of legal interventions in addiction governance, analyses current addiction governance at national and European level, and explores the feasibility and desirability of developing an EU Strategy on Addiction. Oliver’s planned future research will investigate justiciability mechanisms for the right to health, analysing the application of paternalism theories to the use of law and NCD prevention, and further exploring the role of law in the governance of complex social and health problems.

Dr Enrico Bonadio is Senior Lecturer in Law at City University London (City Law School), where he teaches various modules on intellectual property (IP) law. He holds law degrees from the University of Florence (PhD) and the University of Pisa (LLB), and is Associate Editor and Intellectual Property Correspondent of the European Journal of Risk Regulation. He regularly lectures, publishes and advises in the field of UK, European and international intellectual property law. He published a book on TRIPS Agreement and genetic resources (Jovene, 2008), and recently co-edited a book entitled "The New Intellectual Property of Health - Beyond Plain Packaging" (Elgar, forthcoming 2016). He has also done academic work on digital copyright and free speech, exhaustion of IP rights and parallel imports, patentability of human embryonic stem cells and patents and food safety. Enrico is Visiting Professor in IP Law at Université Catholique de Lyon (France) and University of Turku (Finland) as well as visiting lecturer at the LLM in Intellectual Property offered by WIPO and the University of Turin. He also recently taught at Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala, University of Wroclaw (Poland), Academy of European Law and University of Leuphana (Germany), Moscow State Law Academy (Russia), Université de Toulouse (France) and University of Pisa (Italy). In 2013 he has been Visiting Scholar at Melbourne Law School (University of Melbourne, Australia). His research and teaching interests have led him to deliver papers and talks in all five continents.

Seamus Byrne is a PhD researcher in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. Seamus’ research interests lie in the area of children’s socio-economic rights and in particular the fulfillment of those rights through the concept of ‘progressive realisation’. His current research examines and interrogates the phenomenon of school exclusions in the UK as against the duty of the State to progressively realise the right to education for children. Seamus adopts a child participatory methodology in furtherance of his research, invoking both qualitative and quantitative research tools. Seamus holds a BA (Hons) Degree in Legal Science, Politics & Sociology and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) Degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Seamus also holds an LL.M in Human Rights Law from Queens University, Belfast and a Barrister at Law Degree from the Honorable Society of Kings Inn’s, Dublin.

Dr Joshua Curtis is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. His work is located at the intersection of human rights, international economic law and development economics. He has written, for example, on human rights and foreign investment, the nature of legal obligations on States to cooperate internationally, and the application of human rights law to the process of economic policy- making. He has advised the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the Irish Cancer Society, Amnesty International, and the International Federation for Human Rights, and is currently an advisor to the South Centre and an academic member of the Extraterritorial Obligations Consortium. His present research is on ‘The EU, the BRICS, Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations and International Economic Governance’.

Dr Oliver De Schutter is a professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and at SciencesPo (France) and currently a visiting professor at Yale Law School. He served from 2008 to 2014 as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food as he is since 2015 a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and a member of the Lancet Commission on Obesity. His recent work is on the agriculture-food-health nexus, and as the co- chair of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), he has been working on the need for an intersectoral EU common food policy. His publications are at the intersection of human rights, international economic law and the theory of governance.

Dr Asbjørn Eide (dr.juris h.c. Lund University, born 1933) is Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, and founder and first Director of the Centre. Former member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (former name: Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities) for 20 years. As member of the Sub-Commission, he was entrusted with a number of special tasks: He was the Sub-Commission’s and thus the UN’s first Special rapporteur on The Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right (published by the then United Nations Centre for Human Rights as its Study Series, No.1, in 1989), and Special rapporteur on Peaceful and constructive ways of handling situations involving minorities. He was the first chairman of the Sub-Commission’s working group on the rights of indigenous peoples (1982-1983) and Chairman of the Sub-Commission’s working group on minorities (1995–2004). He was the Chairman of the Sub-Commission 1996. He has also been President of the Council of Europe’s Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention on the Rights of National Minorities. He chaired the FAO Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture 2000 to 2007. He has published extensively on human rights in general and on economic and social rights and minority rights in particular. He is a Knight of The Royal Norwegian St. Olav’s Order for his work in peace and conflict research and human rights promotion.

Dr Marine Friant-Perrot is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Nantes, since 1999. She is habilitated to supervise PhD research (HDR). She is the author of several contributions in consumer law, food law, and health law, published in national and international journals. With Professor A. Garde, from the University of Liverpool, she has co-published several articles as well as an expert report for the French INPES, on the legal tools to prevent non communicable diseases. She has participated in training initiatives for the World Health Organisation, and is a member of the “Law, Science and Technology” and “Trans Europe Expert” networks, and also of the International Association for Consumer Law.

Dr Amandine Garde is Head of the Law Department at the University of Liverpool in the UK. Her research interests lie in the fields of Trade, Consumer, Advertising, European Union and Public Health Law. In particular, she has developed an expertise on the legal aspects of obesity prevention and other NCD risk factors. Her book EU Law and Obesity Prevention (Kluwer Law International, 2010) is the first to offer a critical analysis of the EU’s Obesity Prevention Strategy, and she is co-editor (with Alberto Alemanno) of Regulating Lifestyle Risks: the EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She is the author of several reports on food marketing to children and NCD prevention, and she has developed several training courses on the role of legal instruments in the prevention of NCDs for, among others, the WHO. She was a member of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Science and Evidence to the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity. She regularly advises a broad range of international organizations, NGOs and governments worldwide. She is the founder and director of the new Law and NCD Research Unit at the University of Liverpool. Before moving to Liverpool, she lectured at King's College London (where she obtained her PhD), at the Faculty of Law in Cambridge (where she was also a Fellow of Selwyn College), at the University of Exeter and at the University of Durham. She spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 2005-2006 and is a qualified solicitor.

Nikhil Gokani is a researcher at the School of Law and Social Justice, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. Nikhil’s research looks at the role of UK, EU and international law in preventing non- communicable diseases through tackling the primary risk factors of unhealthy diets, excessive alcohol consumption and tobacco use. He has recently moved into the field of air pollution control. His focus is on producing and disseminating impactful research which can be translated into policy action. His special interests lie in, firstly, the conflation of consumer protection law and public health and, secondly, in the reduction of health inequalities. Nikhil is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, publishes regularly, and regularly works with governments and charities as part of his advisory and consultancy work. Nikhil sits on several national committees, which have included two committees at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, three committees at the Royal College of Physicians including on its Working Party on Air Pollution, the National Institute for Health Research, and the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Dr Mette Hartlev is a professor of health law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, and head of the research center WELMA which is concerned with legal studies in welfare and market integration She has a PhD and a LL.D in law, from the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests focus on health law (including public health law), patients’ rights, health and human rights, biomedical research, and law, science and technology studies, and she has published extensively on these issues in both international and domestic journals. Currently, she is a research partner of the interdisciplinary research project – Governing Obesity – where her main research interest is government’s obligation to prevent obesity and protect obese persons from stigma and discrimination. She has previously participated in several research projects funded by the EU-Commission and national research foundations and is a member of the editorial board of European Journal of Health Law. Furthermore, she is chair of the management board of the Danish Anti-Doping Agency and the vice chair of the Danish National Committee of Research Ethics.

Dr Philip James trained in science and medicine before organising public health/nutrition teaching at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He organised/chaired and wrote the first UK and WHO reports on modern nutrition approaches to malnutrition and the non – communicable diseases and obesity. He also organised the first WHO global burden analysis of obesity and the UN Millennium report on Nutrition for the UN Secretary General. He devised for Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister, the UK Food Standards Agency and advised EU President Delors on establishing DG SANCO and EFSA as well as devising the programme to combat spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) which involved a host of legal measures to avoid trade wars between the USA and Europe. He then devised with the McGill University a series of conferences on legal and other e.g. trade measures which could deal with obesity using childhood obesity as the entry point. He established the International Obesity Task Force, helped develop the IOTF criteria for childhood obesity and developed/wrote the first DH/MRC and Royal College of Physicians reports on obesity and chaired/wrote the UK report on preventing childhood obesity in 1997 for Tessa Jowell, the first Minister of Public Health, which was immediately rejected because of objections from the Food and Drink Federation. He is now a key advisor on nutritional aspects of public health initiatives for the WHO Middle East and Europe regions covering 75 countries and has stimulated the Gulf States to ban the production/imports of trans fat, introduced regulatory measures on salt reduction in bread and is now engaged in new legal and fiscal approaches in the Middle East region with the worst diabetes and obesity problems in the world.

Dr Tim Lobstein is Policy Director for the World Obesity Federation based in London, UK, and Adjunct Professor at the Public Health Advocacy Institute of Western Australia, Curtin University, Perth. Dr Lobstein is an occasional consultant to the World Health Organization, the European Commission, and various other authorities and non-governmental organisations. He is the author of chapters on food policy and obesity in international text books, and the author or co-author of more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He was previously co-director of the UK Food Commission, a civil society organisation concerned with food policy. Dr Lobstein has special interests in child obesity, on marketing food and beverages to children, on nutrition policies and programmes, and on health inequalities and income disparities. He has been Principal Investigator on two European Commission-funded projects and a Work-package Leader on six EC-funded projects related to nutrition, obesity prevention and treatment, and health impact assessment. Dr Lobstein has extensive experience in policy analysis, policy dissemination, evidence reviews and advocacy.

Dr Caoimhín MacMaoláin is an Associate Professor in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. He previously lectured at the University of Northampton and held a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Integration at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the way in which the production and sale of food is regulated by EU and International law. He has written two books on this subject, both published by Hart: Bloomsbury. He is currently researching and writing a third book, which is specifically on Irish Food Law. He has also published a number of book chapters and articles in the leading international journals in the field, including the European Law Review, the Common Market Law Review, the European Journal of Consumer Law, European Public Law and the Food and Drug Law Journal.

Anna Glayzer is Advocacy Manager at Consumers International (CI), the global federation of consumer groups. Anna has been campaigning on food and nutrition issues for over ten years. She led CI’s work on drafting a global convention to protect and promote healthy diets.

Dr Benn McGrady is a Technical Officer (Legal) at the World Health Organization. He is an international lawyer whose work focuses on the implications of international trade and investment agreements for health. Among other publications, Benn is the author of Trade and Public Health: The WTO, Tobacco, Alcohol and Diet (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Confronting the Tobacco Epidemic in a New Era of Trade and Investment Liberalization (WHO, 2012). He has taught at Georgetown University Law Center and Sydney Law School and trained government officials on the implications of trade and investment agreements for public health around the world. At WHO, Benn is responsible for providing technical assistance to WHO Member States and building their legal capacity to prevent non-communicable diseases.

Dr Gregory Messenger joined Liverpool Law School as a Lecturer in 2015. He has taught public international law, world trade law and international investment law at the Universities of Oxford and Durham as well as courses in English law at the University of Granada. Greg's research examines conceptual issues arising from the development and application of international law, with particular focus on international economic law. He has consulted for a number of governments on international law matters and is a Member of the ILA Committee on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law. His recent monograph The Development of World Trade Organization Law is available from OUP.

Katharina Ó Cathaoir is a PhD Fellow at the Centre for Welfare and Market Integration (WELMA), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She is a member of an interdisciplinary research group - Governing Obesity - that seeks to find societal solutions to obesity. Katharina holds a BCL in Law and Irish from University College Cork and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Trinity College Dublin. Prior to joining the University of Copenhagen, she worked as a judicial researcher for the Irish Courts’ Service and an advisor to Ireland’s Permanent Mission to the UN. Katharina’s primary research interests lie in the interaction between children’s rights and health promotion. Her PhD thesis analyses the extent to which children’s rights provide a basis for restrictions of high fat, salt or sugar food marketing.

Jude Osei holds a master of laws degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Following a brief career at the bar, he joined the legal and consular bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ghana, responsible for international public law and providing legal advice on investment treaties. From 2010 to 2014, Mr Osei worked with the Permanent Mission of Ghana to the UN in Geneva, first as a first secretary and later as Counsellor. During this period, his portfolio included the Human Rights Council, World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Health 0rganization. In July 2014, Mr Osei joined the World Health Organisation, as part of the Secretariat for the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity to project manage the work plan on the Ad-hoc Working Group on implementation, monitoring and accountability, made up of 23 global experts from the fields of nutrition, physical activity, advocacy, policy formulation, law and accountability. Mr Osei is currently responsible for facilitating the development of an approach to register and publish the contributions of non-State actors to the achievement of the 9 voluntary NCD targets.

David Patterson joined the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) in 2008 to design and manage the HIV and Health Law Program. By 2014 the program grown to support activities in 24 countries. Mr Patterson has been IDLO’s Senior Legal Expert for Health since 2014, based in The Hague, Netherlands. As a member of IDLO’s Global Initiatives Department, he is responsible for new program development and thought leadership in global health law, and technical support for current program implementation in three work areas: HIV, NCDs (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease), and falsified medicines. Mr. Patterson has over 20 years' experience in international health and development with the UN (UNDP, UNAIDS), NGOs and government sectors. In 1993, Mr. Patterson co-founded the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and later, as Director of International Programs, created the Network's HIV and Law Programs in the Caribbean and in East Africa. His current areas of research and thought leadership include the application of the lessons from the HIV epidemic to the global response to non-communicable diseases. In 2015 he was appointed as a Commissioner of the Lancet Commission on Obesity. Mr. Patterson holds a Master of Laws from McGill University, Canada, and a Master of Science from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in Public Policy and Management. Other post-graduate qualifications include a Certificate in Community Health from the University of Montreal and a Certificate in Development Evaluation (IPDET) from the World Bank and Carleton University, Canada.

Neville Rigby is convenor of the International Obesity Forum and former director of policy and public affairs of the International Obesity Task Force, which he joined after a long career in journalism. He has been a strategy consultant on public health advocacy for almost 20 years, worked closely with WHO, and has written and co-authored many papers on obesity policy.

Sarah Roache, LL. M., LL.B., is an Associate at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Sarah researches and advises on legal and policy interventions to reduce key non-communicable disease risk factors including unhealthy diets and physical inactivity. Sarah leads the O’Neill Institute’s collaboration with the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, which assists member states to harness the power of law to reduce non- communicable disease risk factors, improving health and productivity. Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Sarah worked as a complex class action litigator, representing victims of tobacco related diseases and thalidomide survivors. She also has experience as a social and legal policy adviser to government and NGOs, including formulating best practice domestic implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Sarah holds a Master of Laws in Global Health Law from Georgetown University, where she received the Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, S.J. Prize for the most distinguished academic record. Sarah also holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Dr Mavluda Sattorova is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. She specialises in international economic law broadly defined, with particular focus on international investment law. Her most recent work examines the interplay between investment treaty law and national policy- making. Currently she is working on a project that explores the impact of international investment law on government behaviour. Dr Sattorova’s track record of knowledge exchange and capacity building activities includes working with international organisations and think-tanks, such including WHO, UNCTAD, and Investment Treaty Forum.

Dr Manisha Shridhar is a Regional Advisor on Intellectual Property, Trade and Public Health at the South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO/SEARO). He earned his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and has been awarded other degrees from the Franklin Pierce Law Center (FPLC), Concord, USA, Punjab University, and Delhi University. As Joint Secretary and with Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises in the Government of India he managed and prepared documents on policy reform including for WTO negotiations, ASEAN, MERCOSUR, Bangkok Agreement, SAFTA and other Free Trade Area agreements. Dr Shridar has assisted UN organizations in developing and organising IPR training programs, case studies and study materials, and has worked with UNIDO on Geographical Indications for traditional products. He has served as Head of Training Research and Development in the National Academy of Administration. In addition to his mother tongue, Hindi, she is fluent in English and French.

Dr Helen Stalford is Professor of Law and founding director of the European Children's Rights Unit at the University of Liverpool. She has researched and published widely on issues relating to EU law and children's rights and has acted as consultant to UNICEF, the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the EU Fundamental Rights Agency on a range of EU-related children's rights projects. Her current work focuses on children's access to and experiences of the justice system and she is currently co-leading two funded projects that explore different dimensions of this: an AHRC-funded project, 'Children's Rights Judgments' that re-drafts existing judgments from a range of jurisdictions from a distinctly children's rights perspective; and a European Commission funded project that observes practitioners and clients involved in 'live' cases to explore how children's rights can be brought to bear more meaningfully on the legal process.

Erik Wijkström is a Counsellor in the WTO Division on Trade and Environment. He joined the WTO Agriculture and Commodities Division in 1995 and thereafter worked in several areas of trade policy, including agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS Agreement), trade and environmental policy, as well as trade and health policy. Mr. Wijkström's main focus is in the area of non- tariff barriers and specifically standards and regulatory matters. He has a Master Degree in the area of agriculture and economics from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, in Uppsala, Sweden. He is currently responsible for matters relating to the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) at the WTO.