Sleep has become widely recognised as playing a really important role in our overall health and wellness – alongside diet, stress management and exercise.

Global Benefits Vision asked Lance Henderson, Head of Sales and Relationship Management at Zurich Global Employee Benefits Solutions, about his view on latest trends in Employee Benefits and discussed topics like the “Duty of Care” concept, the Income Protection Gap, and solutions that can help multinationals to address those challenges.

Every year, from 5 to 20 percent of the people in the United States will become infected with influenza virus. An average of 200,000 of these people will require hospitalization and up to 50,000 will die.

Jonathan Maddison Achievers EMEA Managing Director Jon Maddison is Achievers’ EMEA Managing Director, with responsibility for the services that we provide to customers across the region. Jon has more than a decade’s experience of leading successful Software-as-a-Service businesses. Immediately prior to joining Achievers he spent four years as Vice President of SaaS and Software Solutions with NGA HR, an HCM software leader. In this role, Jon held responsibility for

Edmond Rock Inra Research Director Dr Rock is the Director of Research of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA, the French National Research Institute of Agronomics) and Project Officer for India & China in its International Relations Office (INRA-CIRAD). In addition to institutional activities, he contributes to work carried out by the Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine d’Auvergne (CRHN – the Auvergne Region Research Center for Human Nutrition) as Deputy Director,

Anthony Fardet Human Nutrition Unit, University of Clermont-Auvergne, INRA Research Officer, UMR 1019 It is now necessary to define new paradigms to lay the groundwork for a new, more ethical and sustainable preventative human nutrition. To this end, I propose to examine the consequences of the reductionist and holistic approaches applied to nutrition research, to study the relevance of a new classification of foods based on their degree of

Eric A. Butler butler@geb.com GEB Director of Global Health and Wellness Eric Butler is GEB’s Director of Global Health and Wellness with a remit to enhance the company’s significant leading position in this area worldwide, building upon ever more insightful global medical reporting capabilities and helping multinational companies explore initiatives to mitigate medical trends and cost drivers. Eric has an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the University of

Feng He Queen Mary University of London Professor of Global Health Research Feng He is Professor of Global Health Research at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. She qualified as a physician in China. After two years working in clinical posts, she went on for postgraduate training in Cardiovascular Epidemiology and worked on several projects

Matthew Lawrence Aon Chief Broking Officer, Health Solutions, EMEA Matthew has worked in the health industry for 20 years, where he carries out a variety of leadership roles for Aon’s Health Solutions business. As well coordinating and executing the broking strategy for the EMEA region, Matthew leads Aon’s health and analytics capabilities. He advises some of Europe’s largest and most complex employers on the financing of their benefit programmes,

John McLaughlin Aon’s Assessment Solutions Commercial Director John is the Commercial Director for Aon’s Aon Assessment Solutions and has worked across Europe, APAC, South America, and North America. John’s passion for designing innovative workforce strategies has seen him help organisations across the globe understand what digital means in their specific context and to design talent strategies to help achieve their digital transformation goals and meet the future world of

Danny Dorling University of Oxford Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography Danny Dorling joined the School of Geography and the Environment in September 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand, went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne, and to school in Oxford. Much of

Connor Bamford Queen’s University Belfast Research Fellow, Virology Connor is a virologist with over a decade of experience in studying how the immune system defends humans and other animals against disease-causing microbes like viruses, such as the hepatitis C virus, influenza virus and Zika virus. Connor recently moved to Queen’s University Belfast as a ‘Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) Early Career Research Fellow’ to continue his research into the

Jeremy Smith University of Tennessee Governor’s Chair, Biophysics Prof. Jeremy C. Smith has led research groups in France, Germany and the United States. After education at Leeds and London University in 1985 he became a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer with Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus at Harvard University. In 1989 he established a biomolecular simulation group at the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique in Saclay, near Paris. In 1998 he became

John Read University of East London Professor of Clinical Psychology I am Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. I worked for nearly 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental health services in the UK and the USA, before joining the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1994, where I worked until 2013. I have been Director of the Clinical Psychology professional graduate

Valentina Parma Temple University Research Assistant Professor Psychophysics of taste and flavor perception; role of genetic variation on food preferences.

John E Hayes Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor of Food Science Psychophysics of taste and flavor perception; role of genetic variation on food preferences.

Ellen W. Evans Cardiff Metropolitan University Junior Research Fellow Dr Ellen W Evans is a Junior Research Fellow at the ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Ellen’s research interests relate to the impact of human cognition and behaviour upon food safety throughout the food supply chain from production through to consumer handling and the development of targeted interventions to reduce the risk of foodborne illness from food

John Nathaniel Aucott Johns Hopkins University Director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. John Aucott is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. An internist and Lyme disease expert in the Division of Rheumatology, he is the director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center. With more than 15 years of research experience on

Eugene Wu University of Richmond Professor of Biology and Biochemistry I study life at its borders. At the edge of our definition of life lies viruses, obligate parasites that invade cellular organisms to replicate. When a virus encounters a cell, it must recognize that cell through biomolecular interactions and then commandeer the cell to create copies of the virus’s proteins. Research in my laboratory focuses on those biomolecular interactions between

Richard Polak rpolak@me.com Over a 40-year span, Richard Polak has been recognized in more than 90 countries around the globe for creating and structuring world-class wellness and HR programs. His research, presentations, articles, subject expertise, and training program with IBIS Academy—the world’s longest-running international HR conference for education and networking, targeting executives in the global benefits space. In 2012, Polak merged his company, IBIS Advisors, and his conference, IBIS

Moritz Löschner moritz.loeschner@zurich.com Zurich Global Employee Benefits Solutions (ZGEBS) Lead Customer Relationship Manager Moritz is leading the Customer Relationship Management team for Zurich Global Employee Benefits Solutions (ZGEBS) in continental Europe and is based in Zurich, Switzerland. Before joining the global Employee Benefits world, he worked as an Underwriter for International Programs on the Non-life side of insurance. Moritz has extensive experience in international insurance programs from both core segments of insurance:

Andrew Wood andrew.wood@zurich.com Zurich International Head of Distribution & CRM Andrew Wood is currently Head of Distribution & CRM, Zurich International having held previous roles including European Head of Distribution and Head of Distribution at Zurich Corporate Risk & Zurich Corporate Savings in the UK. Prior to joining Zurich Andrew held domestic and international roles at AEGON and AIG, developing relationships with the leading Employee Benefits Consultancies. He has

Camilla Lewis camilla.lewis@aon.com Aon Health Management Consultant An expert member of Aon’s health management team specialising in Workplace Wellbeing, Mental and Occupational health, and data analysis. The team assists business performance improvement through increased productivity, engagement, attendance and talent management through analysis and data-driven change. Health care management fosters improved and holistic changes in your employees’ health and productivity through well-thought-out intervention, reduced hospitalizations, and decreased accumulated lifestyle risks.

As CEO of MAXIS GBN, Mattieu Rouot oversees relationships with more than 500 multinational companies in over 120 countries around the world. He joined MAXIS in May 2020. Mattieu was instrumental in the creation of the MAXIS GBN joint venture in 2016 and served on the MAXIS supervisory board from its inception.

Jane Parker University of Reading Associate Professor, Flavour Chemistry Jane Parker is associate professor in Flavour Chemistry and manager of The Flavour Centre. Having spent the last 15 years working on collaborative projects with the food industry, Jane has considerable understanding of the needs of commercial customers. Her expertise is in the area of flavour chemistry and the mechanisms by which key odour compounds are formed during thermal processing.

Simon Gane City, University of London Consultant Rhinologist and ENT surgeon Simon Gane is a consultant Rhinologist and ENT Surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He specialises in nasal sinus surgery, including the frontal sinus, anterior skull base and interface with the orbit. His research interests include human olfaction, Chronic Rhinosinusitis and Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia and is an honorary Research Fellow

Peter Rogers University of Bristol Professor of Biological Psychology Peter Rogers is Professor of Biological Psychology at the University of Bristol, UK. He trained in biology (BSc) and experimental psychology (MSc) at the University of Sussex. He completed his PhD at the University of Leeds, and postdoctoral research at the universities of Leeds and Manchester, moving to the Institute of Food Research, Reading in 1990. He moved to the University of Bristol in