Communications Officer – Melissa Badinca

melissa.badinca@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk 

Medical Group Coordinator – Colin Brewer

Colin Brewer formerly directed the Westminster Hospital’s alcoholism unit and the Stapleford Centre. In 2015 he co-published the book “I’ll See Myself Out, Thank You”, in which he described conducting mental capacity assessments for six British citizens hoping to end their life in Switzerland. His forthcoming book “Let Me Not Get Alzheimer’s Sweet Heaven”, explores the dilemma of dementia and assisted dying. He has previously served as a committee member for the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (now Dignity in Dying).

colin.brewer@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk

Lead Campaign Commentator– Phil Cheatle

Phil worked as a research scientist before getting involved with the assisted dying campaign. The unpleasant end of life experience of his mother and aunt, who both suffered from dementia and other conditions, convinced him of a need for a change in the law. Between 2015 - 2019 he coordinated the campaign which My Death, My Decision is the proud successor of. 

phil.cheatle@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk 

Campaigns & Administration Officer – Ellen Day

Ellen is an architecture graduate with an interest in policy development and campaigning. She joined My Death, My Decision after working in a political role.

ellen.day@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk 

Policy Officer – Yasmine El-Gabry

Yasmine is an advocate of assisted dying and has volunteered on the campaign in California. She has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and postgraduate degrees in Public Policy and Education. Her interests and experiences are within equality and human rights policy and has worked on these campaigns in the US and UK.

yasmine.elgabry@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk 

Campaign Director – Ruth Eyre-Pugh

Ruth Eyre-Pugh is a retired veterinary surgeon having worked in private practice and the Royal Army Veterinary Corps and establishing a private company to raise funds for charity.Since her father’s death in 2015, Ruth has self-published a book and written several academic papers about end of life issues which have been published on our MDMD website. Ruth is passionate about compassion in dying and dedicated to representing MDMD supporters who are living with a disability in our bid to change the law about assisted dying.

research@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk

Campaign Director – Robert Ince

Robert Ince trained as an engineer and spent his professional career in the international oil industry, with a short time in banking.  Subsequently, he became Treasurer and then Convenor of the Unitarian church.  He is currently President of the International Association for Religious Freedom – the world’s oldest interfaith organisation and chair of a number of other charities.

robert.ince@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk

Membership Secretary– Susie Ince

In the early 1970s Susie co-founded and ran a women’s circle for a large northern newspaper group before becoming advertising manager for a prestigious department store. In the 1990s she spent nine years in the charity sector coordinating volunteer groups for Arthritis Research. 

memsec@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk 

Director of Finance – Gary Marsh

Born in 1959, Preston Lancashire, Gary obtained a degree in accounting and then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with BDO in Manchester. He joined the now BAE Systems in 1986 holding financial controller and finance director roles across civil and military aerospace divisions; then Thales in 2008, a French blue chip, where he held Finance Director roles in the UK until 2018. Currently a trustee for a North West of England based charity supporting people suffering from drug and alcohol abuse and associated mental illness.

He believes that citizens in the UK have gained new rights over the years, rights that should have existed in the first instance, and the right to assisted dying when a person has an incurable condition is one such right.

gary.marsh@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk

Director – Chloe May

Chloe May is a graduate with a first-class degree in Politics and International Relations. She has a variety of experiences within the charity sector. This includes working for numerous causes focusing on mental health and wellbeing and grassroots campaigns around motor neurone disease and the accessibility of government support.  This year, she recently finished studying a Masters in Human Rights at University College London (UCL) and has gained significant experience within student activism including UCL Justice Collective and their campaign to "diversify their curriculum".

chloe.may@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk 

Director of Operations – Simon Menneer

Simon Menneer spent two decades working in Corporate Finance, after which he worked for Millwall FC and the London Development Agency before moving to Cornwall where he was until recently CEO of Cornwall Cricket.  Simon has been a lifelong believer in the right to choose the manner of one’s own death. This was reinforced when he watched his close friend Tony suffer terribly with late-stage pancreatic cancer.

simon.menneer@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk

Chair – Trevor Moore

Trevor Moore spent much of his professional career as a partner in a City law firm, followed by several years as a consultant and freelance speaker. In the course of his current work as a humanist celebrant he often meets people who are approaching the end of life.  That experience, as well as meeting grieving families after someone has died, has deepened his interest in end of life matters.  He has recently co-edited Words in Pain, the letters of a terminally ill woman from the early twentieth century described by The Times as ‘a right to die pioneer’. Trevor also serves as a schools’ panel member for the Faith and Belief Forum.

trevor.moore@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk

Director of Marketing and Communication – Liz Murphy

Liz has been in marketing and communications for all of her working life.  She started her career with Unilever, moved on to one of the world's most notable advertising agencies, then Wedgwood China, and Barclays Bank. For the last 15 years she has been part of the senior leadership team in the University world, most notably as Associate Dean.  Understanding people is at the heart of good marketing so it is hardly surprising that Liz is compassionate and drawn to issues around assisted dying.

liz.murphy@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk

Director – Alan O'Kelly

Social Media Officer - Grace Scott

Grace has an undergraduate degree in Religious Studies and the Philosophy of Ethics and a postgraduate degree in International Marketing. She helps My Death, My Decision keep its social media platforms and supporters up to date with real-life stories, legislation updates, and insights into the assisted dying debate.

grace@mydeath-mydecision.org.uk