Tony Hines MBE – Chair

Tony Hines is Director of Membership and Crisis Management Manager at Leatherhead Food International. Tony brings many years of experience in Allergens as food ingredients and knowledge of Membership based organisations to the Campaign.

Tom Horwood

Tom is head of communications, customer and IT services at East Hampshire District Council. He is on the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee for Consumer Engagement and has a son with several allergies.

Rebecca Knibb

Dr Rebecca Knibb is a Chartered Health Psychologist and a Reader in Health Psychology at the University of Derby. Rebecca graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1999 with a PhD which investigated reasons why people self-diagnose food allergy and intolerance.

Rebecca’s is involved with the Campaign and on the board of trustees to help raise awareness of the psychosocial impact of food allergy on children and their families.

Ann Phillips

Ann is a charity lawyer, she is deputy chair of the Charity Law Association and was Vice Chair for 7 years, until 2005, of the Research Ethics Committee of Great Ormond Street.  She has a 15 year old son with severe allergies.

Karen Robertson

Karen Robertson is an experienced financial services marketing manager with a wide range of skills from strategic planning, special project activity and multi-disciplinary project management to marketing communications and leadership. She also has product development experience in Life Assurance. Karen teaches marketing at Edinburgh University.

She lives in Edinburgh and has a keen interest in allergies as she has a young son with a fish allergy. Given her background in marketing, Karen brings a range of experiences to the team.

Sandra White

Sandra originally trained as a Radiographer and has a wide and varied experience of working in the Health Sector for over 40 years. Recently retired , Sandra held posts including Chief Executive of a Primary Care Group and Director of a Primary Care Trust. She is now working as an independent consultant.

Brian Wookey

Brian is a retired GP with extensive experience in the healthcare sector, having held various posts within the NHS, most notably Chairman of the East Lincolnshire Primary care Trust.

Brian Wookey joined the Campaign board of Trustees to provide experience as a doctor in primary care, and more recently as chairman of an NHS Trust.

Chris Finch

Chris has been involved in charity finance for about 25 years. For twenty years he was Head of Finance at The Biochemical Society, a learned society charity. Prior to that he was the Head of Finance at The Crafts Council. He is currently Treasurer of Breast Cancer Campaign.

He became interested in The Anaphylaxis Campaign through his wife, who has a nut allergy, and used the Campaign web site to find information—in fact, she became a member—and while on the site noticed that Campaign were looking for a Treasurer.

He feels that the Campaign is already doing a great job, and is very pleased to be given the opportunity to assist it as it develops over the next few years.

He is very interested in classical music- his wife, a scientist, and he met while they sang in the same choir- and he is also keen on hill walking.