Judith Mackay FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Lon), MBChB

Judith Mackay is a British medical doctor, who has lived in Hong Kong since 1967, initially working as a hospital physician, then since 1984 concentrating on public health. She is Senior Advisor, World Lung Foundation/Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, and also to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control; and Senior Policy Advisor to World Health Organisation. She is an Honorary Professor at the School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong. She has authored several atlases on health, cancer, cardiovascular disease, tobacco, surveillance, and oral health. In addition to many international awards, ranging from the WHO Commemorative Medal and the TIME 100 award to the first BMJ Group Lifetime Achievement Award, she has been identified by the tobacco industry as one of the three most dangerous people in the world.