January 2018: Register of members’ interests: Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)
Updated 2 February 2024
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.
Professor Keith Palmer
Role: Chair, and Independent scientific and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present:
- Member and Deputy Chair, Expert Committee on Pesticides (ECP, formerly Advisory Committee on Pesticides) (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
- Member, ECP Toxicology Panel
- Member, Public Health Advisory Committee (NICE)
- Member, Workplace Health Expert Committee (WHEC) (Health & Safety Executive)
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Member, Work Capability Assessment Independent Review Group (Department for Work and Pensions)
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
Professor Paul Cullinan
Role: Independent scientific and medical expert
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
Professor Damien McElvenny
Role: Independent scientific and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Member, Research Funding Panel (Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
- Associate editor, Occupational Medicine
- Occasional medico-legal work as an expert witness
Political activity: none
Professor Neil Pearce
Role: Independent scientific and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present:
- Member, Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COC)
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
Professor Anthony Seaton
Role: Independent scientific and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present:
- Member, EU Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
Dr Karen Walker-Bone
Role: Independent scientific and medical expert
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
Dr Sara De Matteis
Role: Independent scientific and medical expert
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
Keith Corkan
Role: Independent legal expert
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
Karen 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: none
Douglas Russell
Role: Representative of employed earners
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Member, Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (Health and Safety Executive)
Personal and business interests:
- Company Secretary, Greater Manchester Hazards Centre
Political activity:
- Labour
Hugh Robertson
Role: Representative of employed earners
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Non-executive director, Health and Safety Executive
Personal and business interests:
- Member, Advisory Committee on Health and Safety, European Commission
- Member, Board of the European Agency on Health and Safety at Work
- Member, Council for Work and Health
Political activity:
- Labour
Paul Faupel
Role: Representative of employers
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Justice of the Peace, Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service
Personal and business interests:
- Member, Nominations Committee (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)
- Member, Health and Safety Audit and Assurance Committee, University of Southampton
- Member / Trustee, GRL Ltd Pension Plan, Genome Research Ltd
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Friends of The Norris Museum (St Ives, Cambridgeshire)
Political activity: none
Professor Sayeed Khan
Role: Representative of employers
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Board Member Health and Safety Executive
Personal and business interests:
- Chief Medical Adviser, EEF; Chief Occupational Physician, EEF OH Services
Political activity: none
Dr Andrew White
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
Updated January 2018 to remove Dr Paul Baker, Richard Exell and Dr Ira Madan