Ken Clare is the Current Chair of The European Coalition for People Living with Obesity, a founding member of the EASO Patients Council, and the UK’s largest Bariatric Patient group ‘WLS Info’, He is currently Director of Bariatric Surgery at Obesity UK. Living with Obesity all his life, Ken underwent life changing bariatric surgery in 2002. He is a General and Mental Health Nurse, a Patient Advocate and an international speaker in the obesity area, calling for recognition for Obesity as a chronic disease, and access to quality treatment for patients globally. In his spare time he enjoys photography, cricket and flight simulators.