Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones 

Founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic Henrietta is a consultant psychiatrist working in the field of substance misuse and addiction. Opened in London in 2008 the clinic is the first and only NHS multidisciplinary treatment centre for problem gamblers.

Henrietta founded Gambling Concern to raise the profile of problem gambling as a serious issue in contemporary society and to raise philanthropic donations in order to double the amount of patients in treatment at the clinic.

She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Division of Brain Science at Imperial College and is the current co-recipient of two Medical Research Council grants in the area of decision-making and impulsivity.

Henrietta also runs the UK Problem Gambling Research Consortium with researchers from Imperial, Cambridge, Oxford and UCL Universities and  is the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ spokesperson on Problem Gambling.  Currently an elected member of the Executive Committee Addictions Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists  Henrietta has also been a member of the Government’s Responsible Gambling Strategy Board since 2009. She is also a MRCPsych, BA (Hons), DOccMed, MD (Imperial)

Stephen Dunmore OBE

Stephen Dunmore is currently (Interim) Director, Transition at Consumer Focus, Chair of the BBC’s Appeals Advisory Committee and a trustee of The Prince’s Countryside Fund.   He was previously Chief Executive of the New Opportunities Fund and the Big Lottery Fund.

Since leaving the Big Lottery Fund in 2008, he has been Interim Chief Executive of the Responsible Gambling Fund, The Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and the Lumos Foundation, Chair of Capacitybuilders, Chair of National Family Mediation and a member of the NCVO’s Funding Commission and the Office for Civil Society Advisory Body.

Robyn Doran

Robyn qualified as a registered psychiatric nurse in New Zealand in 1983.  She has held a number of positions in management of various mental health, addiction and learning disabilities services in New Zealand, Australia and England.

Robyn started working for Central North West London NHS Trust in 1988, and has worked in most directorates across the Trust.  In 2005 she completed her MSc in Change Agent Skills at Surrey University. In November 2008 Robyn was appointed as the Director of Operations for all Trust Services having been acting into the post for one year.

Malcolm Bruce

Malcolm has a unique combination of experience in the gambling field, having worked in the industry and also run a problem gambling charity. Malcolm is a Director of a consultancy which specialises in providing advice to governments, gambling regulatory bodies and commercial companies in responsible gambling and consumer protection. Prior to this he was Director of Corporate Responsibility for an international sports betting company and Chief Executive of a problem gambling charity in UK. Earlier in his career Malcolm was the CEO of a Housing Charity and a management training and development consultant.