Douglas Twenefour is a Specialist Dietitian, the Head of Clinical at Diabetes UK, and an Associate Lecturer at London Metropolitan University.

Douglas was a co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) joint working group which published the 2021 report on lower carbohydrate diets for adults with type 2 diabetes. With a passion for developing evidence-based guidelines and consensus, he co-chaired the 2018 Diabetes UK nutrition guidelines working group. He was also a member of an expert group of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), Diabetes UK and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) who developed an international consensus on the definition and interpretation of remission in type 2 diabetes which was published simultaneously across four international journals in 2021.

As a professional member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA), Douglas is also a committee member of the BDA’s Diabetes Specialist Group.