Brian Young is an economic psychologist in the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter. He has published extensively in the area of children and advertising and is Academic Editor of the International Journal of Advertising and Marketing to Children, Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the Advertising Education Forum (AEF) and also sits on the Advertising Advisory Committee of the Independent Television Commission (ITC), the regulatory body for UK television advertising. His most recent book is The Faces of Televisual Media: Teaching, Violence, Selling to Children, 2nd edition, co-written with Ed Palmer and published by Erlbaum in 2003.