May 2025: Register of members' interests: Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)
Updated 12 May 2025
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Members of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) are required to declare any personal, political or business interests that could (or could be seen to) influence their judgement.
1. Professor Gillian Leng
Role: Chair
Other public appointments held at present:
- President, Royal Society of Medicine
- A trustee of the Cochrane Collaboration
- Non-executive director, DSIT audit risk and governance committee
- Brevia Health, consultancy body � adviser
- Council member of Alive
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Independent lead for a DHSC review
- Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Visiting Professor in public health, King’s College London
Personal and business interests:
- Shares in BP
Political activity: none
2. Professor John Cherrie
Role: Independent scientist
Other public appointments held at present:
- Member, Workplace Health Expert Committee (Health and Safety Executive)
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Occasional medico-legal work as an expert witness or short-term consultancy work
Political activity: none
3. Lesley Francois
Role: Independent legal expert
Other public appointments held at present:
- Magistrate, Ministry of Justice
- Justice of Peace, Family Panel
- Adoption Panel Member, Adopt London West, London Borough of Ealing
- Case examiner, Fitness to Practice Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
4. Dr Sally Hemming
Role: Representative of employers
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Member, National Health and Wellbeing at Work Forum
- Occasional wellbeing work as an independent practitioner
- Involved with academic research at the University of Loughborough and University of Derby.
Political activity: none
5. Professor Max Henderson
Role: Independent scientist and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Member, Occupational Health and Mental Health Expert Advisory Groups, Joint DH DWP Health and Work Unit
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
6. Dr Richard Heron
Role: Independent medical expert
Other public appointments held at present: None
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Member, NHSE/NHSI Health and Wellbeing Expert Advisory Group
- Member, NHS England Staff Health Advisory Board Personal and business interests:
- Co-chair for International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative
- Visiting Professor of Work, Health and Organisations, University of Surrey
- Part-time health and work consultancy including:
- Cognacity Limited
- RAND Europe
Political activity: none
7. Dr Jennifer Hoyle
Role: Independent member with expertise in respiratory diseases
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Clinical Lead for the Strategic Clinical network for Respiratory and Long Covid in Greater Manchester
- Honorary Senior lecturer Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Manchester University
- Involved in studies on gender bias in occupational lung disease
- Occasional expert witness in Medico-legal cases on occupational lung disease
- Previous advisory board member on RSV vaccination for Pfizer and COPD biologics, Astra Zeneca
- Co-chair British Thoracic Society clinical statement on silicosis
Political activity: none
8. Dr Ian Lawson
Role: Representative of employers
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
9. Professor Damien McElvenny
Role: Independent scientist
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Principal Epidemiologist, Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM)
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester (UoM)
- Freelance Researcher, University Medical Centre, Amsterdam
- Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Occupational Medicine.
- Honorary Member, Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM)
- Chair, SOM’s Workplace Health Intelligence Advisory Group
- Involved in studies on COVID-19 and former professional footballers within his employment with the IOM in association with the UoM.
- Currently working on the Council’s commissioned review of women and health at the IOM
- Occasional medico-legal work as an expert witness or short-term or longer-term consultancy work
Political activity: none
10. Steven Mitchell
Role: Representative of employed earners
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity:
- Member, Labour Party
11. Daniel Shears
Role: Representative of employed earners
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Chair, Joint HSE/Trade Unions Operational Gas Forum
- Vice Chair, Joint Union Asbestos in Schools Campaign
- Member, Health and Safety Executive Industry Advisory Committees including CONIAC and PABIAC
- Member, TUC Union Health and Safety Specialists Committee
- Member, Steering Committee, London Centre for Work and Health
Political activity:
- Member, Labour Party
12. Dr Chris Stenton
Role: Independent scientist and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Currently involved in medico-legal civil cases relating to COVID-19 and pneumoconiosis
Political activity: none
13. Dr Sharon Stevelink
Role: Independent scientist
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Seconded to the Office of the Chief Social Policy Adviser, Scottish Government
- Member, Research Advisory Board for the Health and Work Growth Accelerators Programme, NHS England
- Deputy Director, London Centre for Work and Health
- Honorary Senior Research Associate Nordland Hospital Trust, Bodo, Norway
- Investigator on a study on occupations and long-COVID
Political activity: none
14. Dr Gareth Walters
Role: Independent member with expertise in respiratory diseases
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Chair, British Thoracic Society specialist advisory group on occupational and environmental lung diseases
- Co-investigator on a research project at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust called DETER-ILD; aims to describe the natural history all cases of lung fibrosis seen at hospital within the Trust. Funded by a project grant from Boehringer Ingelheim
Political activity: none