Mindful of Investing in Retirement

Speakers

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  Jasmine Birtles

  Jasmine Birtles is a financial expert, TV presenter, author, journalist, business commentator and humourist. Her mission is to de-mystify money and give practical advice to help people get out of debt and manage their finances by spending less, making more and investing for a secure future. She has money saving and money making ideas as well as wise spending habits. She’s a financial expert with a twist – unique in that she is able to combine her knowledge of business and personal finance with her comedy skills, making a worrying subject palatable and easy to understand. As an independent financial spokesperson she has helped promote financial services for companies such as The Post Office, Lloyds TSB, Air Miles, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Railcard, Carphone Warehouse, Gumtree, Love Food Hate Waste, Cornhill Insurance, Olay, the Foreign Office and price comparison sites, and she co-presented an in house business programme for HSBC.

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  Matt Burrell

  Policy Adviser, Association of British Insurers

  Matt works as a Policy Adviser in the Long Term Savings team working on issues relating to the Retirement Market and pensions technology. Before joining the ABI Matt worked for the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, advising on issues relating to the DC Pensions market with a particular emphasis on Master Trusts.

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  Hannah Lewis

  Founder, Behave London

  Hannah Lewis, is founder of Behave London. She believe that brilliant ideas, backed by science, can change the world. She set up Behave London to indulge her passion for problem solving using behavioural science. Behavioural economics, or as she prefer to think of it, applied psychology, can be used to help almost any process which involves humans and how they interact with the world. It's the perfect set of tools for solving problems. For fixing things. For making things better.

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  Tim Spector

  Professor of Genetics and Author, www.tim-spector.co.uk

  Tim Spector is a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Director of the TwinsUK Registry at Kings College, London and has recently been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He trained originally in rheumatology and epidemiology. In 1992 he moved into genetic epidemiology and founded the UK Twins Registry, of 13,000 twins, which is the richest collection of genotypic and phenotypic information worldwide. He is past President of the International Society of Twin Studies, directs the European Twin Registry Consortium (Discotwin) and collaborates with over 120 centres worldwide. He has demonstrated the genetic basis of a wide range of common complex traits, many previously thought to be mainly due to ageing and environment. Through genetic association studies (GWAS), his group have found over 500 novel gene loci in over 50 disease areas. He has published over 800 research articles and is ranked as being in the top 1% of the world’s most cited scientists by Thomson-Reuters. He held a prestigious European Research Council senior investigator award in epigenetics and is a NIHR Senior Investigator. His current work focuses on omics and the microbiome and directs the crowdfunded British Gut microbiome project. He is a prolific writer with several popular science books and a regular blog, focusing on genetics, epigenetics and most recently microbiome and diet (The Diet Myth). He is in demand as a public speaker and features regularly in the media.