Our People
Change starts with people. We've got a small, agile team, a supportive and active board of trustees and a knowledgeable and influential advisory board.
Ben Rawlence
Chief Executive
Award winning writer, activist, former speech writer to Sir Menzies Campbell and Charles Kennedy and co-founder.
Dr. Libby Pearson
Chief Operating Officer
Libby was a former Director of Student Experience and Academic Quality at Navitas, where she designed and built the student experience of 10 European pathway colleges.
Emma Bald
Director of Communications
Former project director and health sector lead at Central Office of Information and marketing consultant for broad range of businesses.
Amanda Page
Community Training Coordinator
Founder of Community Interest Company, Gap Learning, delivering a programme of courses for all ages to over 1000 learners and winning an ‘Excellence Award’ from Cambridgeshire County Council.
Louise Grove-White
Development Officer
Experienced business development and project manager. Previously worked for Prince’s Trust Cymru, National Museum of Wales and ran the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
Trustees
Chris Blake
Trustee
Director of Green Valleys CIC renewable energy company and energy entrepreneur.
Cllr. Emily Durrant
Trustee
Former activist, participatory research and corporate responsibility consultant and now Wales’ only Green Party County Councilor. Chair of the Policy Forum at Brecon Beacons National Park Authority.
David Isaac
Trustee
Chair of the University of the Arts London, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, former chair of Stonewall and many other charities and partner in law firm Pinsent Mason.
Dr. Bill Newton Smith
Trustee
Philosopher of science and for 20 years head of George Soros’s higher education programme, establishing over 20 universities around the world.
Elizabeth Passey
Trustee
Chairman of the Wye & Usk Foundation, Convener of Court (Chair) of the University of Glasgow, formerly a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and of Investec Asset Management, and hailing from a corn merchant family on the Welsh borders.
Mari Fforde
Trustee
Film maker, arts consultant and Governor of Clyro Primary School.
Prof. Owen Sheers
Award winning writer, professor of creativity at Swansea University and co-founder.
Advisors
Andrew Nairne OBE
Director of Kettles Yard gallery, Cambridge and former Executive Director, Arts, for Arts Council England.
Baroness Rosie Boycott
Writer, broadcaster and food and farming specialist.
Dr. Havard Prosser
Former Chief Environmental Science Adviser, Welsh Government 2005-2010.
Dr. Jane Davidson
Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Wales, Trinity St Davids and former Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing in the Welsh Government.
Edmund de Waal
Writer and artist.
Hugh Martineau
Sustainable Agriculture Consultant for Ricardo Energy & Environment.
Lord Chris Smith
Master of Pembroke College Cambridge, former Culture Secretary and former Chairman of the Environment Agency.
Mark Lynas
Author, journalist and environmental activist.
Nigel Gervis
Director, Ty Mawr Lime Ltd.
Peter Florence
Director, Hay Festival.
Peter T. Howe
Principal of UWC Atlantic College
Prof. Alan Lovell
Former Dean, University of Glamorgan, Business School.
Prof. Brigid Hogan
Chair of Cell Biology, Duke University, USA.
Prof. David Helfand
Chair, Astrophysics, Columbia University and President Emeritus, Quest University, Canada.
Robert Macfarlane
Writer and academic.
Sir Tim Smit
Entrepreneur and founder of the Eden Project.
Sophie Howe
Well-Being and Future Generations Commissioner for Wales.