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.
Anne Dolamore (Chair of Sustain; also Chair of London Food Link working party)
Relevant financial interests: Co-owner of Grub Street publishing, specialising in food and cookery
Anne is a past Chair of the Guild of Food Writers and is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She is the publisher at Grub Street Publishing which specialises in cookery, especially health, children’s food and allergy-related topics. Anne has also taken a keen interest in the development of the market for local foods, and organic foods and is deeply concerned about the potential negative impact of GM crops.
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.
Vicki Hird
Relevant financial interests: Occasional consultancies for organisations and companies
Vicki was Coordinator of the SAFE Alliance before it merged with National Food Alliance in 1999 to become Sustain and worked at Friends of the Earth prior to that. She returned to Friends of the Earth as their Senior Food Campaigner. She is now a Food and Environment consultant with clients including the Sustainable Development Commission, FoE Europe and Landshare. She is running the UK Sick of Pesticides Campaign for the Health and Environment Alliance. Vicki has a particular interest in insects after a Masters degree looking at pest control systems and has run major campaigns and published numerous reports on food, farming and environment policy as well as a book - Perfectly Safe to eat? The Facts on Food (Women's Press). She was a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council for six years, and a Director of the Food Commission and of Growing Communities (a local food growing and buying cooperative). She is a Trustee of Pesticides Action Network and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Entomological Society.
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.
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 (Vice-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.
Bill Vorley
Relevant financial interests: None
Bill leads the Sustainable Markets Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He was involved in the Race to the Top project, exploring the social and environmental performance of UK supermarkets. He has since coordinated a large programme of research on the impact of agrifood modernisation in emerging economies. His research and policy interests are in the sustainability and governance of agrifood markets. Before joining IIED in 1999, Bill was the Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Environment and Agriculture Programme. He also holds a Ph.D from Southampton University. Bill was a Sustain Council member from 2003 to 2008 and is happy to be re-engaged with the work of the Alliance.
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