Dr Alain Gregoire is Honorary President and founder of the UK Maternal Mental Health Alliance. He initially began his postgraduate training in obstetrics, but on seeing that women with perinatal mental illness were the most ill yet least well cared for, he switched to train in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London. For over 30 years he has been a Consultant Specialist Perinatal Psychiatrist, during which he has set up and led multiple, award winning, specialist perinatal mental health services. He has contributed extensively to the development of policy, strategy, guidance and clinical services in the area of parental and infant mental health in the UK and internationally. He has worked closely with several UK ministers in successive Governments and has been invited to speak to parliamentary meetings and ministers in several countries. He founded the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health and has informed the development of successful alliances in many other countries and world regions.

He is currently Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Care Policy Evaluation Centre (CPEC).

Alain has worked extensively in radio, television and film, including the multiple award-winning BBC documentary ‘My Baby Psychosis and Me’, and was a presenter on the BBC TV programme ‘Trust Me I’m a Doctor’. He is trilingual in English, French and Norwegian.