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Simon Festing is the executive director of the in the UK. __TOC__ BACKGROUND Festing graduated in 1987 as a Bachelor of Medicine from the London Hospital Medical College (now part of Queen Mary, University Of London ). He worked as a medical doctor for three years before leaving medicine in 1990 to study Environmental Technology at Imperial College , graduating with an MSc in 1991. He did voluntary work for Greenpeace from 1992 to 1994, before joining Friends Of The Earth in 1994, where he was employed as their transport and wildlife campaigner until 1998. He worked as a campaign leader for Help The Aged from 1998-9, then became Director of Public Dialogue for the Association of Medical Research Charities, an umbrella group representing 100 medical-research charities, a post he held from 2000 until 2004, when he joined RDS. {Link without Title} His father is Michael Festing , a member of the UK Animal Procedures Committee, and trustee of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments, which is financed by the pharmaceutical and animal-testing industries. PUBLIC PROFILE In December 2005, Festing appeared on a British activist. [http://www.channel4.com/community/showcards/A/Animals.html REFERENCES
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