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Members of the Expert Group have been chosen to encompass an expert knowledge in epidemiology and experimental biology related to exposures to electromagnetic fields and radiofrequencies, and also a knowledge of social science, risk perception and legal issues. There are members with medical and scientific skills in oncology, physics, radio engineering, statistics and neurophysiology. One member is from the World Health Organization (WHO) and there are two members from the NRPB Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR). There are member(s) with lay interests.

In addition to full Expert Group members there will be observers from the Board of NRPB, from the Department of Health (DH) and from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). NRPB staff will provide the secretariat and administrative support for the work of the Group.

The members of the Expert Group are given below.

Chairman

• Professor Sir William Stewart, FRS, FRSE
  Chairman
  Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust
  Dundee

Vice-Chairman

• Professor L J Challis, OBE
  School of Physics and Astronomy
  University of Nottingham
  Physicist

Members

• Professor L W Barclay, OBE, FREng
  Barclay Associates Ltd
  Chelmsford
  Engineering and telecommunications
• Mrs M-N Barton, MBE
  WISE Campaign
  Engineering Council
  London
  Lay member
• Professor C Blakemore, FRS
  Department of Physiology
  University of Oxford
  Neuro-physiologist and member of AGNIR
• Professor D N M Coggon
  Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  MRC Environmental Epidemiology Group
  Southampton
  Environmental epidemiologist
• Professor Sir David Cox, FRS
  Nuffield College
  University of Oxford
  Statistician and epidemiologist
• Mr J Fellow
  Past President
  Edinburgh University Students' Association
  Lay member
• Dr M Repacholi
  Office of Global & Integrated Environmental Health
  World Health Organization
  Geneva
  Experimental scientist and head of WHO EMF programme
• Professor M Rugg, FRSE
  Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
  London
  Cognitive neuroscience
• Professor A J Swerdlow
  Department of Epidemiology & Population Medicine
  London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  University of London
  Epidemiologist and member of AGNIR
• Mr T R K Varma, FRCS (Ed)
  Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery
  Liverpool
  Consultant neurosurgeon

Observers

• Professor A D Baddeley, CBE, FRS
  Department of Psychology
  University of Bristol
  Psychologist and member of Board of NRPB
• Dr H Walker
  Department of Health
  Radiobiologist
• Mr G Worsley
  Department of Trade and Industry
  Telecommunications

Secretariat

• Dr J W Stather
  Deputy Director
  National Radiological Protection Board
  Radiobiologist
• Dr N Cridland
  Radiation Effects Department
  National Radiological Protection Board
  Experimental biologist

First issued 12 October 1999 | Last updated 4 May 2000