Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Author

Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre completed a DEA in economic and business law at the Pantheon Sorbonne and joined the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She initiated and developed fiction for television and cinema before codirecting the company Télé Images Créations. She is on the committees of the Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Hayward Gallery in London.

Julian Barker is the author of The Medicinal Flora of Britain and Northwestern Europe and History, Philosophy and Medicine: Phytotherapy in Context. He started his training as a herbalist in North and Central America then returned to Britain as an apprentice herb grower at Suffolk Herbs and joined the first cohort at the School of Herbal Medicine. He became a member of NIMH in 1982 and opened a multidisciplinary clinic in Brighton where he ran a training clinic until 2009. He has served on NIMH’s Accreditation Board since 1998. Julian taught botany at the School of Herbal Medicine for over twenty years, and supervised BSc dissertations and taught philosophy on the MSc course in herbal medicine at the University of East London.