Mr Mike Wingfield (Chair) has been FSID’s Chairman since Spring 2005. He became involved with FSID after the death of his son Christopher in 1984. He and his wife Jacky are trained befrienders and he previously chaired FSID’s Finance and Legal Committee.

Sylvia Countess of Limerick CBE (Vice-chair) chaired the 1970 UK Symposium on Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy which led to the formation of FSID in 1971, of which she has been Vice-chair ever since. She was Executive Chairman of the Welfare & Information Committee from 1971-85, responsible for publishing and circulating FSID information and leaflets. She chaired the Chief Medical Officer's Expert Group to investigate cot death theories from 1994-98.

Mrs Angela Perry (Vice-chair) is a bereaved parent and fundraiser. 

Mr Colin Baker is an actor and writer.  He and his wife Marion lost their son Jack to SIDS in 1983.  Soon afterwards he became involved with the Foundation as a fundraiser, being invited to become a Trustee in 1989. He was chairman of FSID from 1997 to 2005.

Professor Michael Carmi MBChB DRCOG FRCGP represents the Royal College of General Practitioners on FSID's Council. He is a GP appraiser in Enfield and an F2 facilitator for Barnet and Chase Farm Trust as well as an Educational Supervisor for Barndoc. He is also a Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, and was the former Principal in general medical practice at the White Lodge Medical Practice in Enfield, a former Associate Director London Deanery, University of London,and a former Honorary Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the Royal Free and University College London Hospitals School of Medicine. He helped with FSID's guide for professionals.

Professor Robert Carpenter MA PhD FSS is Honorary Professor in the Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  He was involved with the earliest epidemiological studies of cot death and co-ordinated the European Concerted Action on SIDS (ECAS).  He is currently a member of the steering committee of the CONI programme which made it possible to establish that 90% of repeat cot deaths are natural.

Mr Christopher Cox has been a trustee for 11 years, having turned to FSID for support and information after the death of his son Harry in 1991. Mr Cox acts as an advocate for the thoughts and wishes of cot death parents.  He also assists with fundraising and promoting FSID’s aims.  He is currently Director of an insurance broking company having retired from the Army in 1995.

Professor Anne Greenough MD FRCP FRCPCH DCH is Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology and Head of King's College London School of Medicine, also Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at King's College Hospital. Her research areas include the prevention and treatment of chronic respiratory abnormalities in infants.  She is particularly interested in the effects of sleeping position and maternal smoking on respiratory control of prematurely born infants.

Reverend Ron Robinson SSC is an FSID Trustee and chairman of the FSID’s Information and Support Committee.  He has had a long involvement with FSID and in supporting cot death families.

Dr Peter Sidebotham MB ChB is a Consultant Senior Lecturer in Child Health at the University of Warwick. His main clinical interests are in child protection, sudden unexpected death in infancy and child development and disability. During seven years in Bristol, he helped to build up an internationally acclaimed clinical and academic service for sudden unexpected deaths in infancy. Since moving to North Warwickshire, he has built on this experience to work with colleagues in developing a local service for responding to unexpected childhood deaths. He also sits on the child protection standing committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health., and is the director of the Warwick Advanced Course in the Management of Unexpected Childhood Death. He is heading up a research team undertaking a pilot study into child death review processes.

Professor Nicholas Wald FRCP FFPHM FRCOG FRS is Director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry.  His main research interests are medical screening and the primary prevention of serious disorders.  He carried out the trial supported by the Medical Research Council which established that consuming folic acid assisted in the prevention of neural tube defects.  He is the inaugural Editor of the Journal of Medical Screening, launched in January 1994.

Dr Richard Wilson MB FRCP FRCPCH DCH is an Honorary Consultant Paediatrician in Kingston.  He became active in FSID in the late 1970s when he made a video to inform professionals about cot death and set up a clinic for parents having a subsequent child.  He became interested in children’s grief and the care of bereaved families and has published and lectured widely on the subject.

Advisors to Council of Trustees

Professor George Haycock MB BChir FRCP FRCPCH DCH (Scientific Advisor) is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust, specialising in Nephrology.  He has been FSID’s Scientific Advisor since April 2003.