Advertising Standards Authority

What the Advertising Standards Authority Does

The Advertising Standards Authority regulates the content of advertisements, sales promotions and direct marketing in the UK.

We make sure standards are kept high by applying the advertising standards codes.

We can stop misleading, harmful or offensive advertising. We can ensure sales promotions are run fairly. We can help reduce unwanted commercial mail - either sent through the post, by e-mail or by text message - and we can resolve problems with mail order purchases. <ref> Advertising Standards Authority Website, Advertising Standards Authority accessed 11/03/08

Council Members

• Chris Smith - ASA Chairman
• James Best - Chairman of BMP DDB, which is a advertisment company.
• Sally Cartwright - Worked st the publishing directer of Hello! magazine.
• Baroness Coussins - Used to be the Chief-executive of The Portsman Group an industry-funded body which promoted sensible drinking by consumers and responsible marketing by producers.
• Elizabeth Fagan - Managing Director of Boots Optitians.
• Christine Farnish - Public Policy Director at Barlclays.
• Sunil Gadhia - Chief Executive Officer of the City law firm Stephenson Harwood, which is a law firm has contacts in the Asian Banking Networks.
• Alison Goodman - Major Donor Development Executive at the charity Terrence Higgins Trust.
• David Harker - chief executive of Citizens Advice, the national body that leads and supports Citizens Advice Bureaux.
• Gareth Jones - Chair of Christian Theology at Canterbury Christ Church University.
• Susan Murray - Non-Executive Director of Enterprise Inns plc, SSL International plc and Imperial Tobacco Group plc.
• Colin Philpott - Director of the National Media Museum. He previously worked for the BBC where in his last post before leaving he was the BBC was Head of BBC Yorkshire.
• Donald Trelford - Editor of The Observer from 1975 to 1993 and is now a regular columnist and broadcaster.
• Nigel Walmsley - Chairman of the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board.
• Neil Watts - Secondary School Headteacher since 1988. He gained an MA in economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge University.
• Diana Whitworth - co-director of Grandparents Plus, a charity concerned with promoting the role of grandparents and extended family members in caring for children.

Contact

Address: Mid City Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6QT

Telephone: +44 20 7492 2222

Fax: +44 020 7242 3696

E-mail: enquiries@asa.org.uk

Website: http://www.asa.org.uk