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Advisory Panel for Our Natural World

Action for Conservation

We are delighted to be able to call on the support of a brilliant panel of experts to help us deliver our strategy for Our Natural World.

We have drawn together a group which has a real understanding of what it takes to make a practical, long-term difference on protecting and restoring our environment. The panel won't make funding decisions, but will play a vital role in:

  • Raising awareness of our strategy and our impact goals and supporting our ambition to collaborate.
  • Identifying new opportunities and giving access to knowledge and expertise from their networks.
  • Giving high-level, expert, strategic advice to our staff and Trustees.
  • Reflecting on our progress towards our impact goals.

Who is in our Advisory Panel?

  • Professor Ian Bateman, Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Exeter   
  • Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair, Client Earth and London Climate Resilience Review 
  • Kath Dalmeny, CEO, Sustain 
  • Trewin Restorick, Founder, Sizzle 
  • Daniel Seifu, Programme Officer, Tudor Trust 
  • Peter Young, Independent Environmental Chair/Trustee  

Meet our Advisory Members

Professor Ian J. Bateman

Professor Ian J. Bateman OBE, FRSA, FRSB

Professor Ian J. Bateman

Professor Ian J. Bateman OBE, FRSA, FRSB, is Professor of Environmental Economics and Director of the (LEEP) at the University of Exeter and Director of The (SWEEP).

Ian is a member of the reporting to The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and advising the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Member of the Board of the ; Committee Member of the (LTIS-DG); Member of British Standard Institute (BSI) Committee for establishing ISO standards for (i) Evaluating Natural Capital and (ii) Monetary valuation of environmental costs and benefits; Member of the South West Water Legislative, Resilience and Environmental Investment Board; Chief Editor of the journal Environmental and Resource Economics.

Ian was one of the architects of the H.M. Government and a co-author of the H.M. Treasury for appraisal of public sector spending. Ian’s main research interests revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and social science knowledge. He is a Lifetime Fellow of both the and the and was awarded on OBE in 2013 for services to environmental science and policy. Ian was also recently awarded a Fellowship of the British Academy.

Kath Dalmeny

Kath Dalmeny

Kath Dalmeny

Kath Dalmeny has been Chief Executive of since 2016.

Sustain is the alliance for better food and farming, and Kath leads the alliance's response to Brexit and its profound implications for healthy and sustainable food, farming and fishing and developing the . During 2018 she became a Commissioner for the RSA's , after having served on the steering group that led to its establishment.

Trewin Restorick

Trewin Restorick

Trewin Restorick

Trewin Restorick is Founder and CEO of the award-winning charity Hubbub UK which transforms the way environmental messages are communicated by bringing people and organisations together as a force for good.

Previously Trewin created the UK’s leading environmental behaviour change charity. Trewin is a frequent media commentator on environmental issues and was trained by Al Gore as one of his climate change ambassadors. He has Chaired and been a trustee for the

Before starting Global Action Plan, Trewin was Director of Fundraising at Friends of the Earth where he created PaperRound London’s leading community recycling business. Prior to Friends of the Earth, Trewin worked at Plymouth City Council and produced a youth TV programme for the BBC called Something Else.

Peter Young

Peter Young

Peter Young

An environmentalist since the late 1970s, Peter Young worked mainly in the private sector. He is passionate about reversing nature’s decline, is an independent trustee of , and a member of his local Trusts in Montgomeryshire and Cumbria.

He chairs the ; the ; and the . He is a trustee of the which regulates the Green Investment Bank (now Group), and the pushing for ambitious environmental legislation. Peter co-founded in 2007 and remains an active individual member.