Transparency data

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