Julian Beezhold FRCPsych is a full-time Consultant in Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Honorary Senior Lecturer University of East Anglia Norwich Medical School. He is the Secretary-General of the European Psychiatric Association, where he has been a Board member since 2009.

He is a past President of the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (2003-4), and past Chair Psychiatric Trainees Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has extensive teaching experience, has been an invited speaker in over 18 countries and runs a number of international CME courses. Publications include over 70 papers, book chapters and posters. His research interests cover topics including consent and capacity, mental health law, burnout, and acute psychiatric services.