David Barling
Relevant financial interests: None
David is a senior lecturer in Food Policy at the Centre for Food Policy at City University and programme leader for the MSc in Food Policy, specialising in food governance, standards and the food supply chain. He is a member of Defra’s Organic Action Plan for England; the British Standards Institute Committee on Quality Systems for the Food Industry; the UK Food Group; the editorial board of the international journal Agriculture and Human Values; and has been on Sustain working parties. David has conducted research/consultancy for a number of NGOs and for; the Department for International Development, the European Commission, the European Training and Assessment Foundation and the European Parliament.
Myles Bremner (Chair of Capital Growth working party)
Relevant financial interests: Chief Executive of Garden Organic
Myles Bremner joined Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic growing charity, in October 2007. Previous roles include interim Director of Fundraising at NCH - Action for Children, Head of Operations at St John Ambulance, and the British Olympic Association. His keen interest is in young people’s empowerment and participation in providing a better infrastructure for developing life skills. He is determined that food skills – growing, cooking and eating – are firmly on the learning agenda. Myles is a Trustee of the Warwickshire Environmental Trust and has recently founded a local growing group in the village where he lives in Warwickshire.
Emma Hockridge
Relevant financial interests: The Soil Association is a recipient of a Big Lottery grant as part of the 'Making Local Food Work' programme (for which Sustain is a portfolio partner)
Emma is head of policy at the Soil Association, having previously worked at Sustain. She has an MA in Sustainable Development Advocacy, which focused on rural land use. Prior to this she worked for Defra, and carried out conservation in the Peruvian jungle after completing her degree in Geography and Environmental Studies. In 2006 she was awarded a Nuffield farming scholarship. Emma’s family run a mixed farm in mid-Devon in which she continues to be involved.
Katharine Jenner (Chair of the Better Hospital Food campaign working party)
Relevant financial interests: None
Katharine is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and the Campaign Director of the award winning salt reduction charity CASH (Consensus Action on Salt and Health) and its international arm WASH (World Action on Salt and Health). She also runs healthy eating and food skills sessions for people living with HIV as part of The Food Chain's 'Eating Positively' programme and is a Visiting Lecturer in Public Health at several UK Universities including Queen Mary, Chester, Imperial College and Southampton University. Katharine worked as a media strategist for several years and as such is very interested in developing innovative approaches to communicating public health.
Rachael Jolley
Relevant financial interests: Occasional consultancies for organisations and companies
Rachael has been Head of Policy, Senior Research Editor and is now a Consultant at the Faculty of Public Health and other health organisation. She also runs a consultancy on social media. She has an MA in International Relations and International Development and is co-author of Healthy Nudges: When the Public Want Change But The Politicians Don't Know It. Rachael is particularly interested in Capital Growth and its work to raise awareness of bees, as well as children's food, and the relationship between the environment and better health. Rachael's background in journalism, communications and politics.
Anthony Kleanthous
Relevant financial interests: Occasional consultancies for organisations and companies
WWF-UK has begun a programme of work called One Planet Food to develop an understanding of the environmental and social effects of food consumed in the UK and to propose solutions. We would like this work to be as collaborative as possible so that NGOs, citizens, businesses and government all have a constructive role to play and are as aligned as possible on solutions. We view the work of Sustain as important to this process, and would like an opportunity to both learn from and guide Sustain’s work.
Christine Lewis
Relevant financial interests: None
Christine is a national officer for the public service trade union, UNISON. As well as leading on school meals she is responsible for a range of negotiations, policy issues and professional development across education and children’s services. She sat on the school meals review panel in 2005 which recommended the nutritional standards in schools and has been a supporter of campaign groups concerned with school meals since the 1980s. Christine is a member of the national council for the Institute of Learning and sits on various bodies concerned with workforce and public policy in education. She is currently studying for a PhD in public policy on student funding.
Philip Lymbery
Relevant financial interests: None
Philip Lymbery is Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming (Compassion). With 20 years of professional animal welfare experience, Philip was formerly Director of Communications for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (2003-2005) and freelance campaigner and strategist (2000-2003). Throughout the 1990s Philip was Compassion’s Campaigns Director and is an acknowledged expert on farm animal welfare. He played a major role in the high profile Compassion campaign in 1994-96 to ban live animal exports, which won the PR Week award for best environmental media relations campaign 1994/95 at the British Environment and Media Awards. He is an experienced media spokesperson, having fielded many interviews for national, international, and regional broadcast media. Philip has a life-long interest in wild birds and is a licensed bird ringer on behalf of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
Patrick Mulvany (Chair of UK Food Group)
Relevant financial interests: None
Patrick is senior policy adviser to the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action). For the last 10 years he has been in the forefront of its international advocacy work with a special focus on appropriate technology, food sovereignty, and agricultural biodiversity policies. The programme priorities are: the Right to Food; strengthening local markets; localised food systems and fair trade; equitable access to productive natural resources; and giving priority to sustainable agroecological production and harvesting systems. In this context, detailed work has focused on conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity for food and livelihood security and equitable sharing of benefits; genetic engineering; intellectual property and trade issues. He participates in processes supporting Via Campesina, the international peasant farmers’ movement, and the civil society lobbies at the UN, especially the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Convention on Biological Diversity. He is currently Chair of the UK Food Group.
Mike Rayner (Chair of Sustain, and Chair of the Children’s Food Campaign working party)
Relevant financial interests: None
Mike Rayner is Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group which is based in the Department of Public Health of the University of Oxford. The Group carries out research into food and health, in particular on the impact of food marketing and labelling on diets and into initiatives that might improve diets such as so-called ‘fat taxes'. A recent research interest of the Group is the relationship between a healthy diet and a sustainable diet. Mike is currently Vice Chair of Sustain and Chair of the Children’s Food Campaign. He is a trustee of the National Heart Forum and a member of the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee of NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence). He is Chair of the Nutrition Expert Group for the European Heart Network based in Brussels.
Patti Rundall, OBE
Relevant financial interests: Two shares in Nestlé, held for the purpose of attending AGM
Patti Rundall has worked for nearly 20 years with Baby Milk Action and the global network IBFAN, campaigning for effective controls on the marketing and labelling of breastmilk substitutes. She is especially interested in public relations and sponsorship and its impact on NGOs, the UN and on health and education services. Baby Milk Action is the secretariat of the 20-country international Nestle Boycott Committee.
Jenny Sansom
Relevant financial interests: None
Food and its relationship with us and our environment has always interested Jenny. She has 10 years experience in developing and managing food projects as an on-the ground practitioner at Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, as a founder-manager of the Leamington-based social enterprise Action 21, as a trainer at Sustain, and now co-ordinating the sustainable food work of the National Trust. When Jenny worked for Sustain as a contractor in 2008 she felt she had joined a very dynamic organisation which is at the heart of the sustainable food network. She would like the opportunity to gain a closer perspective on the projects and campaigns Sustain is involved with and contribute where she can. Jenny can bring to the Council experience of third sector management, community development, fundraising, advocacy, and project management plus some useful contacts.
Shaun Spiers
Relevant financial interests: None
Shaun has been chief executive of the Campaign to Protect Rural England since 2004. He started his career with the South East Co-op and was as a Co-op sponsored MEP for five years, serving on the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee. As an MEP he sponsored a project on growing food in London. Before joining CPRE he ran ABCUL, the credit union trade association.
Keith Tyrell
Relevant financial interests: None
Keith became Pesticides Action Network UK Director in May 2010. Keith has over 20 years' environmental experience. Prior to joining PAN UK he was the Director of Programmes and Research at the Koru Foundation – a charity that supports community scale renewable energy projects in poor countries. He also spent eight years working on UK and EU environmental policy at the ENDS Report where his last role was Climate and Energy Editor. He has extensive experience of working with grassroots organisations and ran the European arm of a three-year international research and advocacy project for WWF. He holds a Doctorate in Development Studies, and MA in Environment Development and Policy, both of which involved research into pesticides.
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