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Investigative Research - Addictions - 2011

This page lists potential organisations and individuals to profile on Addictions using Investigative Research.
==Tobacco==
*FOREST
**Simon Clark
*The Free Society
*Save Our Pubs and Clubs
*Christopher Snowdon
*Foundation for Future Studies
*National Social Norms Institute (Based at Uni of Virginia)
*European Social Norms Repository (Based at Uni of Bradford)
Tobacco Issues
*The BMA's recent call for a ban on smoking in cars had been criticised for using flawed science, are they? How do their critics use science? 
==Alcohol==
*Drinkaware Trust, Professor Paul Wallace Drinkaware's medical adviser
*European Alcohol and Health Forum
*European Forum for Responsible Drinking
*Responsibility Deal Alcohol Network
*Weinberg Group
*International Center for Alcohol Policies, Marcus Grant President 
*Campden BRI, Caroline Walker BRI Director of Brewing
*European Alcohol and Health Forum
*National Social Norms Institute (Based at Uni of Virginia)
*Anheuser Busch
*European Social Norms Repository (Based at Uni of Bradford)
*Wesley Perkins (USA)
Alcohol Issues
*Does consuming alcohol in moderation have health benefits?
*Does red wine protect against heart disease?
==Food==
*Association for the Study of Obesity
**Susan Jebb
*Food Advertising Unit
*Responsibility Deal Food Network
*European Food Safety Authority
**Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle
**Management Board members Diána Bánáti (Chair) | Sue Davies (Vice-Chair) | Piergiuseppe Facelli (Vice-Chair) | Manuel Barreto Dias (Member) | Marianne Elvander (Member) | Matthias Horst (Member) Milan Kovác (Member) | Stella Michaelidou-Canna (Member) | Jan Mousing (Member) | Milan Pogacnik (Member) | Jiri Ruprich (Member) | Sinikka Turunen (Member) | Bernhard Url (Member) | Pieter Vanthemsche (Member) | Paola Testori Coggi | Ladislav Miko
*EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health
*Robert Madelin
*Campden BRI
Food Issues
*Can food be addictive?
*Does aspartame have negative consequences for health?
==Gambling==
*Gamble Aware
*Responsible Gambling Strategy Board
*The GREaT Foundation
**Neil Goulden
**Ian Burke - Chief Executive, Rank Group plc
**Richard Glynn - Chief Executive, Ladbrokes 
**Nick Harding - Chief Executive, Praesepe plc 
**Clive Hawkswood - Chief Executive, Remote Gambling Association 
**Andrew Love - Deputy Chairman, The Ritz Hotel and Chairman and Chief Executive, The Ritz Club
**Jonathan Paveley - Executive Chairman, Admiral Taverns 
**Ralph Topping - Chief Executive, William Hill
**Ken Turner - Chief Executive Officer, Sceptre Leisure plc 
Gambling Issues
*What implications does the liberalisation of gambling regulations have on public health? 
==Notes==
Investigative Research 2011

This page lists Investigative Research projects.
==Group A== 
*Military propaganda/counter terrorism media and communication control
#Research Information and Communications Unit, Home Office (may have been closed by the Tories but lots to do on them - plenty of published material by them that we have already that needs analysed) 
#Horizon Scanning and Response Team and Strategic Horizons Unit (also counter terror work - v little known about them, seems to be linked to 'Foresight'
# Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations 
# 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group 
# Joint Services Intelligence Organisation Wikileaks disclosures suggests behind UK torture training.
*:http://www.themcgurksbarmassacre.com/campaign.html
#Mod Manual of Security/MoD information control. Manual leaked via Wikileaks.http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/UK_MoD_Manual_of_Security_Volumes_1,_2_and_3_Issue_2,_JSP-440,_RESTRICTED,_2389_pages,_2001/ Could be put together with other MoD docs on information control issued under FoI?
==Group B==
*The conservative movement. To include key elements of the movement as identified by Tim Montgomerie: 
# Centre for Social Justice: 
# Taxpayers Alliance: (Central to the undermining of the 'Spirit Level' (along with the Policy Exchange and Democracy Institutehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/14/the-spirit-level-equality-thinktanks?intcmp=239 
# Reform/Doctors for Reform/Reform Scotland - privatising the NHS 
# International Policy Network - 
# Migration Watch, 
# Countryside Alliance 
==Group C==
*Obesity: Big Food and Big Pharma - Need proper look at the role of lobby groups on food and obesity and on the think tanks attacking public health
# Democracy Institute on Obesity 
# National Obesity Forum 
# Media Smart 
# Change4Life and New Tory policy 
# Advertising Education Forum/Food Advertising Unit - links with academics and govt
==Group D==
Healthcare reform
# 2020health
==Group E==
*The revolving door after last general election (destination of New Lab and origins of Con Dem SPADs). 
#Special Advisers
#Former MPs and Ministers
#Lobbying connections
==Notes==
Investment Management Association

The Investment Management Association describes itself as the trade body for the UK's £3400 billion asset management industry. "The money our members manage is in a wide variety of investment vehicles including authorised investment funds, pension funds and stocks and shares ISAs."
==Representation in the European Commission==
Jorge Morley-Smith and Florian van Megen represent the Investment Management Association on the European Commission's Expert Group on automatic exchange of financial account information. The aim of the group is to assist the EU member states on tax laws and collecting the full amount of tax owed to them. European Commission Commission Expert Group on automatic exchange of financial account information, accessed 4 May 2015.
==People==
===External===
*Cicero Consulting: paid by the IMA for public affairs advice in 2009, 2010 and 2011APPC register, to Nov 2009 APPC Register Entry for 1 September 2010 to 30 November 2010 APPC Register Entry for 1 December 2010 to 28 February 2011 
==Affiliations==
*Is a member of the Industry Advisory Group of the Associate Parliamentary Group on Wholesale Financial Markets and Services.
==Contacts==
65 Kingsway, London WC2B 6TD
http://www.investmentuk.org
==References==
Category: Financial sector lobbying
Invicta

Invicta is a lobbying firm with offices in Glasgow and Newcastle. 
It boasts: ' We make the seemingly improbable become possible. Success is our benchmark.'Mark Cummings, Linkedin profile, accessed August 2015
=='Unacceptable' practices==
In 2013 the Scotsman reported comments made by former lobbyist, Thomas Docherty MP regarding 'unacceptable' behaviour by Invicta's Mark Cummings.
:'[Thomas Docherty] claimed to receive a text message containing sectarian abuse after he opposed a planned development by one of Cummings’ clients. He said: “I am not alone in receiving intimidatory behaviour from Mr Cummings, he is well-known for bullying and becoming aggressive, particularly towards women opponents of schemes.” Highlighting further examples of 'unacceptable' practises used by Mr Cummings, the MP also claimed the lobbyist would get an employee to pose as a journalist to sound out politicians about planning applications. He also suggested that Mr Cummings placed candidates to stand for election to community councils which then have to be consulted on planning issues. Mr Cummings “strongly denies” the claims.Invicta PA boss Mark Cummings in sectarian claims, Scotsman, 5 February 2013
==Services==
Invicta says it provides the following services: 'purposeful political engagement, media engagement and community and stakeholder engagement.'
==People==
*Mark Cummings, director / founder; former head of lobbying in Scotland for lobbying firm, PPS.
*Mark Stephenson, Head of Public Affairs - England; ex-Manager of Policy and Research at the North East Chamber of Commerce.
*Clarke Heron, Campaigns and Media Executive
*David Foster, Head of Marketing and Business Development
*Maria Corrieri, Executive Assistant and Business Manager
*Jennifer McAlpine, Head of Campaigns and Media
==Clients==
===Register of consultant lobbyists===
====April - June 2016====
Kilmac Energy 'Invicta profile 2016', Register of consultant lobbyists, accessed 21 July 2016 
====July - September 2015====
Seneca Energy Invicta Public Affairs profile 2015, Registrar of consultant lobbyists, accessed 3 May 2016
==Contacts==
:Website: http://www.invictapa.co.uk
:Glasgow: George House, 36 North Hanover Street, Glasgow, G1 2AD
:Newcastle: Milburn House, Newcastle, NE1 1LE
==References==
Category:Scottish lobbying firms
Inés Ayala Sender

Inés Ayala Sender (born 28 March 1957, Zaragoza) has been an MEP from Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) for the last two terms (20.07.2004 - 13.07.2009 and since 14.07.2009).European Parliament, MEP Directory: Inés Ayala Sender, accessed 08 September 2010.
==Affiliations==
*Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism
*Member, Committee on Budgetary Control
*Member, Committee on Petitions
*Member, Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya)
*Substitute, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
*Substitute, Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China
==Record and Controversies==
===Declaration of Financial Interests===
*Nothing to declare.European Parliament, Declaración relativa a los intereses económicos de los diputados: Inés Ayala Sender, 15 January 2009, accessed 29 April 2009.
===Record of Parliamentary Votes===
==Personal Information==
===Curriculum Vitae===
*Graduate in Spanish and English (Saragossa, 1975-1982). 
*Studied Law (Saragossa, 1994-1995).
*Postgraduate studies in sustainable development (ULB, 1995-1997). 
*Spanish as a foreign language teacher training (University of Alcalá de Henares, 2002-2004). 
*Lecturer in the Department of Spanish Literature (University of Saragossa, 1980-1990).
*Regional Secretary of the Women's Section of the PSOE in Aragon (1984-1985).
*Coordinator, Provincial Executive Committee of the UGT in Saragossa (1989-1990). 
*Social Action Officer, UGT Confederal Executive Committee (1990-1994). 
*Member of consultative committees on equality, migration, the environment within the ETUC, ICFTU and TUAC.
*Expert before the European Economic and Social Committee on combating exclusion (1990-1994). 
*National expert in the Directorate-General for the Environment, European Commission (1995-1997). 
*PES Policy Adviser on various EP committees and delegations (1997-2004).
*Deputy Director-General responsible for European programmes, Fundescoop (Foundation for the Development of Cooperativism and Social Economy, 1994-1995). 
*Adviser to the INSS (National Institute of Social Security) IMSERSO (Institute for Older Persons and Social Services) (1990-1994).
*Chairwoman of the Spanish Economic and Social Committee Working Party on the White Paper on Industry (1990-1995).
===Contact===	
:Address:
:Parlement européen
:Bât. Altiero Spinelli
:11G157
:60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
:B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel
:Phone:
:+32 (0)2 28 45508
:Fax
:+32 (0)2 28 49508
:Email:
:ines.ayalasender@europarl.europa.eu
:Website: 
:http://www.psoe-pe.org
==Resources==
*European Parliament, Declaración relativa a los intereses económicos de los diputados: Inés Ayala Sender, 15 January 2009, accessed 29 April 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Inés Ayala Sender, accessed 29 April 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Inés Ayala Sender, accessed 08 September 2010.
==Notes==
Ayala Sender, Inés
Ayala Sender, Inés
Ayala Sender, Inés
Ipsos MORI

Ipsos MORI is the second largest survey research organisation in the UK, formed by two of the UK's leading companies in October 2005. MORI (Market & Opinion Research International), was originally founded in 1969 by Robert Worcester, and was the largest independent research organisation in the United Kingdom. Ipsos is one of the largest survey research organisations in the world, with offices in dozens of countries, founded in the mid 1970s in France by Didier Truchot and Jean Marc Lech.
The organisation has a freely available archive of opinion polls and public attitude research from 1970 onwards, including trends on its UK website.
Ipsos MORI's Social Research Institute works extensively for UK government and public services, looking at public attitudes to key public services which formed a key part of the New Labour Government's domestic agenda in 1997-2005. Social policy, and issues such as identity, social cohesion, physical capital and the impact of place on attitudes are all key themes of the Institute's work.
The company also specialises in media, loyalty and marketing and advertising research.
In June 2005, Robert Worcester stepped down from chairmanship of MORI and became its life president. MORI was bought by the French research agency Ipsos in October 2005 for £88 million and is now known as 'Ipsos MORI'. Richard Silman is executive chairman and Brian Gosschalk chief executive. Worcester is chairman of the advisory board of Ipsos Public Affairs worldwide. 
Ipsos MORI's research is conducted via a wide range of methodologies, especially telephone, face-to-face and internet surveys. Around half the company's sampling will involve random probability methods, either face to face or by telephone. Telephone surveys use a method called random digit dialing. This system basically uses randomly generated, but area-specific, telephone numbers. This is the preferred method because it is quick as the interviewer does not need to manually dial the phone and also creates a less biased result as the company do not know who they are calling within each geographic area.
The telephone surveys are conducted by MTS (MORI Telephone Surveys). Their call centers are based all over the UK. Their largest call center is in Edinburgh, Scotland but much research is still conducted in London, England and Dublin, Ireland. Since the Ipsos takeover their operations have expanded as now research is conducted in other parts of the world such as Canada.
==People==
==External links==
* Ipsos MORI Website
* MTS Information
* Recent Research
* Ipsos Website
* Sir Bob quits MORI chairmanship The Guardian June 2005
* French rival snaps up MORI Media Guardian October 2005
==Notes==
Category:PollstersCategory:UK
Ira Russel Conn

Ira Russel Conn (Date of birth August 1950).
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Name 	Company number 	Company status 	Correspondence address 	Role 	Appointed 	Resigned 	Nationality 	Residence 	Occupation
J-Hub 	14170962 	Active 	2nd Floor - Parkgates, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester, United Kingdom, M25 0TL 	Active Director 	14 June 2022 	- 	British 	England 	Company Director
Africa Israel Partnership Ltd. 	14023459 	Active 	10 Ravens Close, Prestwich, Manchester, England, M25 0FU 	Active Director 	4 April 2022 	- 	British 	England 	Director
Jewish Strategic Group CIC 	12461915 	Dissolved 	Nicky Alliance Centre, 85 Middleton Road, Manchester, England, M8 4JY 	Resigned Director 	13 February 2020 	21 December 2021 	British 	England 	Director
==Affiliations==
*Colel Chabad (UK)
*Nathan Laski Memorial Charitable Trusthttps://archive.ph/ArjJS
==Notes==
Iran-Contra

The Iran-Contra scandal became public on 3 November 1986, when the Lebanese newspaper Al Shiraa revealed details of US arms sales to Iran in an "arms for hostages" deal.Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.7. It emerged shortly afterwards that proceeds from the arms sales had been illegaly diverted by Col. Oliver North to get round Congressional restrictions on funding for the Nicaraguan Contras.Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.13.
==External Resources==
*Report of the congressional committees investigating the Iran-Contra Affair with supplemental, minority, and additional views, U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, 1987, archived at openlibrary.org
==Notes==
Category:Iran-Contra
Iran Energy Project

The Iran Energy Project is led by Mark DubowitzIran Energy Project, "About", Iran Energy Project website, accessed on 8 November 2010 and Jonathan SchanzerIran Energy Project, "About", Iran Energy Project website, accessed on 8 November 2010 and is a project of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). It is dedicated to strengthening the Israel lobby-orchestrated sanctions against Iran's energy sector. FDD claims that it has "promoted the utility of energy sanctions as part of a comprehensive economic warfare strategy against the Iranian regime [providing] leading research and analysis in support of strong, broad-based energy sanctions."Iran Energy Project, "About", Iran Energy Project website, accessed on 8 November 2010 Going further it states:
:The Wall Street Journal credits FDD for having "brought the idea of gasoline sanctions to political attention." ...Informed by FDD research and analysis, the House and Senate have both passed legislation to curtail Iran's ability to import gasoline. [...] Nine of Iran's major gasoline suppliers – BP, Vitol, Trafigura, Glencore, Total, Shell, Reliance, Lukoil and Petronas – reportedly ended their gasoline supplies to Iran after calculating that the political risk from continued trade was too high. Most Western banks have stopped underwriting gasoline shipments to Iran. Three major insurance companies, Lloyd's of London, Munich Re and Allianz, announced that they would stop underwriting the gasoline trade.Iran Energy Project, "About", Iran Energy Project website, accessed on 8 November 2010
The project's efforts have been given legislative muscle by fellow neoconservative Stuart Levey, presently a US Treasury undersecretary, who reportedly liaises with FDD and previously employed its current vice president Jonathan Schanzer as a researcher.Ron Kampeas, Stuart Levey: The man trying to make anti-Iran sanctions work, JTA, 29 June 2010 The lobby group now liaises directly with the European Israel lobby through Emanuele Ottolenghi, based in Brussels.
==Staff==
*Mark Dubowitz - Director
*Jonathan Schanzer - Vice President of Research
*Reuel Marc Gerecht - Senior Fellow
*Emanuele Ottolenghi - Senior Fellow, Brussels
*Benjamin Weinthal - Fellow, Berlin
*Laura Grossman - Research Analyst
*Noah Chestnut - Website Project Manager
ReferenceIran Energy Project, "About", Iran Energy Project website, accessed on 8 November 2010
==Contact==
Address:
Iran Energy Project
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies
P.O. Box 33249, Washington D.C. 20033
Phone 202-207-0190
Website: http://www.iranenergyproject.org/
==Notes==
category:Israel Lobby
Category:Terrorism Industry
Category:Neocons
Category:Think Tanks
Category:Target Iran
Iran Solidarity

Iran Solidarity is an initiative launched at the House of Lords on 13 July 2009 to 'support the Iranian people's struggle for freedom'. Aside from some British and foreign liberal voices, the statement of support is signed by a familiar cast of neocons, some known Islamophobes, and luminaries of the New Atheist movement. Active figures include Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, MEK supporter Lord Dick Taverne, New Atheist AC Grayling and gay-rights activist Peter Tatchell.Iran Solidarity launched at House of Lords, Harry's Place, 13 July 2009. Its launch at the House of Lords was promoted by Harry's Place, and included such statements from the speakers as: 'Iran treats its Arab citizens worse than Israel treats its Arab population' (Tatchell). While in their promotional material Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya highlight their affiliations with the Worker Communist Party of Iran (a sectarian groupuscule), at the launch event their sponsor Lord Taverne drew parallels between Islam and Marxism which according to him turned into similar threats once they took over a country.Lord Taverne's statements, 13 July 2009 
Besides the founding statement the organization appears to comprise of a BM Box address, a website, a blog run by Namazie and a Gmail address. 
==Principals==
*Maryam Namazie
==Affiliations==
*Harry's Place publicizes IS events, and cross posts statements. 
==Contact==
*Address: Maryam Namazie, Campaign Organiser, BM Box 2387, London WC1N 3XX, UK
*Tel: +44 (0) 7719166731 
*Website: http://www.iransolidarity.org.uk
*Blog: http://iransolidarity.blogspot.com
*Email: iransolidaritynow@gmail.com
==Notes==
Category:Iran
Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group

The Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG) is an organization within the U.S. government, consisting of officials from the State Department, White House, Central Intelligence Agency, Treasury Department, and other agencies that has worked since early 2006 to isolate the Iran, and to a lesser extent Syria, internationally in order to encourage regime change.
The ISOG has given aid to the militaries of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, and also to the political opposition in Iran.
==Related Articles==
*US unit works quietly to counter Iran's sway, The Boston Globe, 2 January 2007
category:Target Iran
Irani Exiles

According to Jim Lobe, there are "at least three main factions of Iranian dissidents who would accept U.S. funding: the pro-monarchists who support Reza Pahlavi, the former shah's son; the anti-monarchists and pro-democracy dissidents who, like the monarchists, oppose the MEK; and the MEK adherents, who appear to be the largest organized faction in the United States and Europe and to be also the best financed. MEK supporters currently stand to the right of the Bush administration, which has thus far declined to take the MEK off the list of terrorists. There have also been reports, notably in the American Conservative in an item written by former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, which say that the U.S. Special Forces have been working with the MEK in carrying out reconnaissance and intelligence collection operations in Iran."
==Related Articles==
*Connie Bruck, Exiles: How Iran's Expatriates are Gaming the Nuclear Threat, New Yorker, 6 March 2006
category:Target Iran