The Commissioners include a range of people - academics, healthcare professionals and people with lived experience of bipolar

Project Board

• Professor Guy Goodwin – Co-chair and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford
• Dr Clare Dolman* – Co-chair and a patient participation lead at King’s College London
• Professor Allan Young – Psychiatrist and Bipolar UK Trustee
• Professor Ian Jones - Psychiatrist and Field researcher for the Commission
• Simon Kitchen - CEO, Bipolar UK  and Project Sponsor
• Anna Graham – Bipolar UK and Project Manager

Commissioners

• Dr Thomas Richardson* - Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton
• Professor Femi Oyebode - Psychiatrist, University of Birmingham
• Professor Paul McCrone – Professor of Healthcare Economics at Greenwich University
• Paul Bristow MP – MP for Peterborough (Member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee)
• Dr Trudi Seneviratne, OBE – Consultant Adult/Perinatal Psychiatrist, Clinical Director South London & Maudsley NHS, Registrar Royal College Of Psychiatrists
• Dr Tania Gergel* - Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London
• Dr Daniel Dietch - GP at the Lonsdale Medical Practice
• Professor Swaran Singh – Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry, Warwick University
• Dr Aditya Sharma - Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Newcastle University
• Professor Steven Marwaha - Consultant Psychiatrist, Birmingham University, who runs the Mood Disorders Clinic in Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust
• Dr Julie Anderson, Consultant Psychiatrist, Belfast NHS Community Trust
• Mohini Morris* - Bipolar UK Trustee
• Luyando Malawo* – online influencer
• Leah Milner* – freelance financial journalist
• Natasha Naomi Rea* – actress and author
• April Kelley* – actress and producer
• Nicky Chinn* – songwriter and record producer
• Suky Singh* –  psychology student and Bipolar UK Peer Support Group co-facilitator, Birmingham
• Olivia Hewitt* – student in media, culture and communications
• Jackie Dix* – freelance researcher, Wales
• Emma Jayne Hickman* – social media influencer, Northern Ireland

* with lived experience

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Last updated: 9 March 2023