About Us - Secretariat

Euan Woodward BA (Hons), PGDip, EASO Executive Director

Euan graduated in European Business in 1996 and completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Tourism Management in 1998. He began his career organising fundraising events for a small charity based in Glasgow and then worked for five years for a Conference Management Agency where he was responsible for the management and organisation of international congresses for large medical and scientific associations. He moved to London in 2003 and continued his career managing medical conferences for a Professional Conference Organiser before joining IASO in February 2005.  He has gained extensive experience of international congress management and is now responsible for managing future ECOs and ICOs and for the development of the conference division of Obesity International Trading Limited.

Contact Euan for information on:

• Strategic Management
• Fundraising
• Corporate Governance

Tim Lobstein PhD, Director, Childhood Obesity Research Programme.

Tim is an internationally renowned policy specialist he helped produce a book providing WHO Europe’s guidance to governments on its Food Nutrition Action Plan and is a consultant to WHO on food policy issues. He was responsible for several of the background documents that led to the WHO Charter on Obesity, launched in Istanbul in 2006 and is currently editing the follow-up documentation. He helped launch the new International Journal of Pediatric Obesity and is on its editorial board. He has acted as a consultant to the European Commission on policy initiatives on nutrition, and played a leading role in the EC-funded PorGrow project analysing stakeholder views on policy options to tackle obesity in Europe. He is now coordinating work-package 2 of the EC-funded HOPE project, the largest project to analyse European public health strategies for obesity ever undertaken.

Contact Tim for information on:

• Childhood Obesity

Una Murray BSc (Hons), BA (Hons), MA, ACCA, Director of Finance and Administration

Una taught Mechanical Engineering for six years in a University in China before coming to the UK.  She has recently qualified as an accountant through one of the biggest international accountancy bodies. She worked for a London charity for six and half years, managing office administration and finance. She has considerable experience of charity finance, corporate governance, database management and office administration. Her current duties at IASO include finance, membership and operations management.

Contact Una for information on:

• Membership
• Finance
  

Rachel Jackson Leach BA (Hons), MSc, Senior Policy Officer

Rachel w as formerly a company nutritionist for a corporate health & fitness company and freelance nutritionist. She has been involved with the Comparative Risk Assessment Collaborating Group for High BMI, the FORESIGHT project and has been co-author on a number of recent journal and book chapter publications. She is responsible for analysing and maintaining the obesity prevalence database alongside establishing and developing a prevention policy database.

Contact Rachel for information on:

• Data collection and collation

Liz Freeman BA (Hons) Conference Manager - Communications

Liz graduated in Spanish and Human Resource Management in 2002.  She spent almost two years in northern Spain, teaching English before returning to England and working in communications and food and drink PR, before joining IASO in 2004. She works closely with the Director of Congresses and Education – managing the marketing and exhibition aspects of the congresses and organising the SCOPE Courses and Stock Conferences. Liz is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Contact Liz for information on:

• EASO Marketing
• ECO Marketing
• ECO Sponsorship & Exhibition
• SCOPE Courses

Marco Presutto Bus (Hons) Conference Manager – Programme and Registration

Marco has over four years' experience organising a wide range of events, conferences and congresses worldwide and over seven years' experience as a project officer and technical analyst in the telecoms and IT industry. Marco joined IASO from Consumers International as a conference manager in late 2006. Marco's specific responsibilities lie in the planning and co-ordination of EASO's congress programmes and registration. Marco is a fluent Italian speaker.

Contact Marco for information on:

• ECO Registration
• ECO Scientific Programme
• ECO Site Selection

Louisa Richards - Administrative Assistant

Information to follow

Contact Louisa for information on:

• SCOPE Fellowship
• SCOPE Membership
• SCOPE Online
• General Enquiries