Peter Conway is a practising medical herbalist and has been involved in developing and teaching on several BSc and MSc courses in herbal medicine. He is a former President of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy and a former Director of the European Herbal and Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association. Peter helped draft the National Professional Standards for Herbal Medicine and sat on the Department of Health Steering Group on the Statutory Regulation of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine. He was awarded Fellowships of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and The College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy in recognition of his contributions toward the development of the herbal profession. He now lives and works on the West Coast of Canada.