Tony Allen is Chief Executive of the Age Check Certification Scheme. He is a Chartered Trading Standards Practitioner and Global Subject Matter Expert on Age Assurance, including:
- As the Technical Editor of the ISO/IEC 27566 series of international standards on age assurance
- As the Chair of IST 33/5/5 – BSI Committee on Age Assurance
- As the Chair of the UK Government’s Expert Panel on Age Restrictions
- As a contributing specialist to the IEEE 2089.1 standards on online verification
- As the expert witness in Paxton v FSC currently being considered by the Supreme Court of the United States (one of a series of cases in which he has given evidence in the US about age assurance)
- As the author of the Law of Age Restricted Sales in England & Wales