Global Forum on Nicotine 2020
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Global Forum on Nicotine 2020, Tobacco Tactics, updated 01 August 2025, accessed 09 January 2026.
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN), which typically takes place annually in Poland, focuses on new nicotine products and ‘tobacco harm reduction.’
The GFN is organised by Global Forum on Nicotine Limited,1 which was known as KAC Communications until November 2024.2 For more information, please see the main Global Forum on Nicotine page.
The GFN 2020 conference was held only online on June 11–12, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers from tobacco companies listed:3
- Moria Gilchrist – Philip Morris International (PMI)
Other speakers and panellists:3
- Abrie du Plessis – Trade Law Centre (tralac)
- Alex Wodak – Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation (see also Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association (ATHRA))
- Caitlin Notley – University of East of Anglia
- Chimwemwe Ngoma – Drug Fight Malawi
- Clarisse Virgino – The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA)
- Clive Bates – Counterfactual
- David Sweanor – University of Ottawa
- Ethan Nadelmann – Open Society Institute’s International Harm Reduction Development
- Fiona Patten – Reason Party
- Gerry Stimson
- Gregory Conley – American Vaping Association
- John Oyston – Scarborough Health Network
- Kevin Mcgirr – University of California San Francisco
- Konstantinos E. Farsalinos – Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center
- Louise Ross – Leicester City Stop Smoking, New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) UK
- Marewa Glover – Centre for Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty and Smoking (COREISS)
- Marina Foltea – Trade Pacts
- Mark Tyndall – University of British Columbia
- Patricia Kovacevic – Nicopure Lab
- Pini Matzner – Signals Analytics
- Riccardo Polosa – Centre of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR)
- Roberto Sussman – International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations (INNCO)
- Samrat Chowdhery – Association of Vapers India, INNCO
- Shane MacGuill – Euromonitor International
- Spike Babaian – VapeNY
- Sree Sucharitha – Tagore Medical College and Hospital
- Tim Phillips – Tamarind Intelligence
- Will Godfrey – Filter magazine, The Influence Foundation
Relevant Links
Global Forum on Nicotine website
Tobacco Tactics Resources
- Global Forum on Nicotine
- Harm Reduction
- Knowledge-Action-Change
- Foundation for a Smoke-Free World
- Global Action to End Smoking