Professor Paul Gately
CEO

Overall responsibility for service delivery

Overall responsibility for governance

Provides regular challenge around service performance and activity

 

Paul has an unshakable passion to support those struggling with their weight or wanting to become more healthy, by making small achievable changes. Paul founded Morelife following the success of the first Morelife summer camp in 1999.

Paul Gately is CEO of Morelife and a visiting Professor of Exercise and Obesity at Leeds Beckett University, he is also a visiting professor in the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London. Paul was the Principle Investigator on Public Health England’s Whole Systems Approach to Obesity and he was the Co-director of the Obesity Institute at Leeds Beckett University. His primary research interest is adult and childhood obesity treatment strategies but he has a focus on the use of systems approaches to tackle the wider determinants of obesity. Paul is also the Interim CEO of Obesity UK a members led charity.