Leen Petre is Principal Manager: Media and Culture at the RNIB and has recently completed a secondment at Help the Aged. She is Chairman of the Consumer Expert Group (CEG) on digital switchover, appointed by the Culture Secretary. She has expertise on consumers with visual impairments, is able to lead and take a view on disability and older people and has worked on European and international consumer policy issues. Leen is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce and a lay consumer member of the Food Standards Agency General Advisory Committee on Science.

REGISTER OF INTERESTS

• Chairman of the Consumer Expert Group (CEG) on digital switchover
• Member, Food Standards Agency General Advisory Committee on Science
• Fellow, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)