Katie Alpin, Interim Chief Executive, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute

Interim Chief Executive at the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, an independent charity, committed to breaking the link between financial difficulty and mental health problems. People with mental health problems are three and a half times as likely to be in problem debt: we’re here to change that. We conduct research, develop practical policy solutions and work in partnership with both those providing services and those using them to find what really works.

Before joining the Money and Mental Health, Katie worked as an economist at the Social Market Foundation, an independent non-partisan thinktank, leading a programme of work around consumer markets. Prior to that, she led the global economics team at Cebr, a London-based economics consultancy. 

 Dr. Peter Hughes, Psychologist, Co-founder of Cognition Agency

Peter, who co-founded Cognition, is a psychologist and expert in digital transformation and decision science. He’s also a published ghostwriter and has facilitated digital transformation projects in the UK, Europe, South America, Russia, the Middle East and Asia. As a broadcaster, he has made many television appearances including Secrets of Superbrands, Addicted to Pleasure with Brian Cox and The One Show for the BBC. He’s helped high-profile people manage addictive behaviours and featured as an expert in many documentaries on leading figures in the entertainment industry.