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Stephen Walsh
IVU Council Member 2002 -
IVU Secretary 2004-06

Stephen Walsh holds a PhD in Process Systems Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and specialises in data analysis and mathematical modelling. He is Vice-Chair of the UK Vegan Society and has a long-standing interest in vegan nutrition. He recently prepared an international B12 information sheet with the help of other members of the IVU Science Group. This sheet has been widely endorsed and has been reproduced on many vegetarian web-sites in Italian and Spanish as well as in English. He has also published other articles on nutrition and health in "The Vegan", most of which have also been widely reproduced on the Internet. He is a spokesperson for the Vegan Society in contesting inaccurate media reports on veganism and unsubstantiated health claims by the dairy industry.

He is actively involved in the UK vegan community and organised the annual UK Vegan Camp for several years. The camp is attended by more than a hundred vegans every year and provides a great opportunity for vegans of all ages and their families to have fun and share experiences. The lessons from those experiences complement the findings of scientific studies to provide the basis for a comprehensive and realistic approach to vegan health.