Our Advisory Group
Our Advisory Group is made of experts from across academia, science and the early years sector. They offer strategic advice to The Princess of Wales and provide oversight of the work of the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.
The Advisory Group members have deep expertise in a range of areas including neuroscience, psychology, perinatal psychiatry, early years services and policy development. Several members have already played a pivotal role in the work The Princess of Wales has been pursuing for more than a decade in this field, helping her to shape her work on the issue and adding to her determination to help change the way people think about early childhood.
The group support the delivery of the Centre’s work in commissioning new research, learning from best practice in the UK and globally, and raising awareness of the extraordinary impact the first five years of life have on future outcomes.
Advisory Group members are:
Professor Peter Fonagy OBE
Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL.
Professor Eamon McCrory
Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology, University College London and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
Dr Alain Gregoire
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist and President and Founder of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance
Dr Trudi Seneviratne OBE
Registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Ed Vainker OBE
Co-founder of Reach Academy Feltham
Carey Oppenheim
Project Lead at the Nuffield Foundation
Emily Samuel
UKCP accredited Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
