Shauna has worked in senior management roles in the charity sector for more than ten years. She is also a human rights lawyer, a successful campaigner and strategist, but her most important role is mum to boy/girl twins.

Donna Ockenden is a nurse and a midwife. She has more than 35 years' experience within a variety of health settings both in the UK and internationally.

In 2017 Donna was appointed to chair the Independent review into Maternity Services at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, the final report of which was published on 30 March 2022.

Donna has been a champion of patient safety in women's and children's health and maternity services - she works alongside a number of charities who are committed to ensuring the best and safest outcomes for mothers and their babies, including Baby Lifeline, Sands and MASIC.

In May 2022, Donna was appointed as the Chair of the Independent review into Maternity Services at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which is expected to publish in September 2025.

Consultant in Fetal Medicine at Birmingham Women's and Children's Foundation Trust
Visiting Professor at King's College, London

Professor Kilby worked in the management of the complications of Twin and Higher-order pregnancies at the Fetal Medicine Centre at Birmingham Women's and Children's Foundation Trust. He established the fetoscopic laser service for the management of TTTS in Birmingham, after a sabbatical with Yves Ville in Paris and received referrals from all across the North and Midlands of England.

He has written and published extensively on the management of twin pregnancies. He was Chairman and then Senior Topic Advisor for the NICE Guidelines for the Management of Twin and Higher-order Pregnancies published in 2011 (CG129) and then again in 2019 (NG137). He is also an author of the RCOG's Green Top Guideline on the management of Monochorionic twins (published in 2025 [but also published in 2008 and 2016).

Director of Fetal Medicine Unit, Liverpool Women's Hospital
Vice-President of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Asma Khalil is a Professor of Fetal Medicine. She is the Obstetric Lead at the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA). She gained her MD at the University of London in 2008.

Prof. Asma Khalil has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers, and many published review articles and chapters. She has been awarded many research prizes, both at national and international meetings. She was awarded the 2021 FIGO Women's Awards: Recognising Female Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Her research interests include twin pregnancy, congenital infections, fetal growth restriction and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.

She had a fellowship with the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and is committed to the implementation of clinical guidelines in practice. She is the Lead author of the ISUOG guideline on the role of ultrasound in twins and congenital infections. She also led the guideline team developing the FIGO guideline on twin pregnancies. She was a member of the NICE Guideline Committee updating the Twin and Multiple Pregnancy guidance.

Emma Ferriman graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 1990. From 2001 to 2016, she served as a Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine in Leeds, before taking up her current role in Sheffield in 2016. She also holds the position of Honorary Secretary of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS).

Her clinical expertise spans high-risk pregnancies, multiple pregnancies, prenatal diagnosis and screening. In addition to her medical practice, Emma is actively involved in medicolegal work, serving as an adviser to the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Protection Society (MPS). She is also an editor and author, contributing to various medicolegal publications.

Dr Surabhi Nanda is a subspecialist consultant in Maternal Fetal Medicine and lead for multiple pregnancy at Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this  role, she led the multiple pregnancy service at Liverpool Women's Hospital. In both her roles, she led the tertiary multiple pregnancy clinics with facilities for complex invasive procedures in twins and higher order pregnancies.

Andrew Sharp is an academic obstetrician with an interest in fetal medicine and complex pregnancies. His main clinical and research interests include preterm birth, multiple pregnancies, and fetal growth restriction. He is the clinical lead for multiple pregnancy and fetal growth at Liverpool Women's Hospital.

His formative research experiences were on placental function and this has been carried forward into his work on fetal growth restriction including the randomised controlled trial of sildenafil for severe early-onset growth restriction: STRIDER UK.

He is an investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded birth cohort Children Growing Up in Liverpool and Civic Data Cooperative data linkage initiative. He is leading the PLANES study for small for gestational age babies and is a co-applicant in the TRUFFLE2 and FERN studies.

In April 2023, Bart and his wife Sam welcomed their son Finnegan, born seven weeks premature but is thriving. Finn is an identical twin, however Bart and Sam sadly lost their son Ace at 17 weeks following TTTS & TAPS and two fetal surgeries to try and save both or one of the twins. Bart and Sam benefitted from support from Twins Trust during this very difficult time.

Bart is a senior leader in the travel industry and has spent most of his career at TUI and Google. He is currently Marketing & Sales Director for TUI in the UK & Ireland. Outside of work, he's passionate about travel (obviously), sport and spending as much time as possible with those closest to him.

Louise Bowman has worked at Twins Trust for ten years and is the Head of Family Services. Her role involves overseeing the Family Services team and the services it provides to families including the Twins Trust helpline, courses, online communities, peer supporters, clinics, clubs and bereavement service.

The bereavement service provides support to both families and healthcare professionals and provide a safe place offering information, resources and a community where parents can feel supported by the unique challenge of losing one or more of their babies.

Dr Surabhi Nanda is a subspecialist consultant in Maternal Fetal Medicine and lead for multiple pregnancy at Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this  role, she led the multiple pregnancy service at Liverpool Women's Hospital. In both her roles, she led the tertiary multiple pregnancy clinics with facilities for complex invasive procedures in twins and higher order pregnancies.

Andrew Sharp is an academic obstetrician with an interest in fetal medicine and complex pregnancies. His main clinical and research interests include preterm birth, multiple pregnancies, and fetal growth restriction. He is the clinical lead for multiple pregnancy and fetal growth at Liverpool Women's Hospital.

His formative research experiences were on placental function and this has been carried forward into his work on fetal growth restriction including the randomised controlled trial of sildenafil for severe early-onset growth restriction: STRIDER UK.

He is an investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded birth cohort Children Growing Up in Liverpool and Civic Data Cooperative data linkage initiative. He is leading the PLANES study for small for gestational age babies and is a co-applicant in the TRUFFLE2 and FERN studies.

Dr Andrew Breeze is a consultant obstetrician and subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine in Leeds Teaching Hospitals. He works in the Fetal Medicine Unit at Leeds General Infirmary and helps run the multiple pregnancy clinic for Leeds, based at St James University Hospital.

He sees referrals from across West and North Yorkshire with complicated multiple pregnancies and is an investigator for the FERN and TRUFFLE2 research studies. He is also an enthusiastic runner and cyclist and is planning to do the London-Brighton bike ride to support Twins Trust in 2025.

Emma Ferriman graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 1990. From 2001 to 2016, she served as a Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine in Leeds, before taking up her current role in Sheffield in 2016. She also holds the position of Honorary Secretary of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS).

Her clinical expertise spans high-risk pregnancies, multiple pregnancies, prenatal diagnosis and screening. In addition to her medical practice, Emma is actively involved in medicolegal work, serving as an adviser to the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Protection Society (MPS). She is also an editor and author, contributing to various medicolegal publications.

Pam is an experienced and dedicated midwife with over 20 years of practice in various roles within maternity services. With a career that spans from serving as a Labour Ward Coordinator to a Fetal Medicine Specialist Midwife, Autism Midwife, and Multiple Pregnancy Midwife, Pam has expertise in the care of families facing complex pregnancies.

Currently she serves as the LMNS Better Births Project Midwife for East & North Herts NHS Trust while also maintaining her specialist role as a Senior Multiple Pregnancy Midwife for Twins Trust.

Shauna has worked in senior management roles in the charity sector for more than ten years. She is also a human rights lawyer, a successful campaigner and strategist, but her most important role is mum to boy/girl twins.