Advisory Panel for Our Natural World

Ian is a member of the Natural Capital Committee 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 UK Joint Nature Conservation; Committee Member of the Environment Agency Long-Term Investment Scenarios Development Group (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 25 Year Environment Plan and a co-author of the H.M. Treasury Green Book guidelines 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 Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Arts 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.

Gillian may be a bright new face to TV presenting but she’s no stranger to broadcasting. Credits include Ultimate Guide to Spiders for Discovery Channel; to King Cobra! & Anaconda! for Animal Planet’s Snakemaster series; to the ground-breaking, and one of the highest grossing IMAX films to date, Bugs! 3D.

Outside of her television work, Gillian applies her biology and media experience to work closely with a number of charities based in Cornwall where she now lives. She is the patron of the Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust and a volunteer for the Marine Strandings Network where she attends call-outs for stranded marine mammals. She also supports the work of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, Shelterbox, Cornwall Hugs Grenfell & the newly formed Beaver Trust.

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 Campaign for a Better Food Britain. During 2018 she became a Commissioner for the RSA's Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, after having served on the steering group that led to its establishment.

In a short space of time the charity has become an influential force, driving greater action to involve young people across the environmental sector. In 2018 Hendrikus' inspirational leadership was recognised with a Postcode Trust Rising Star Award and in 2019 the charity launched the world's largest youth-led nature restoration initiative in Wales. He is the author of the forthcoming book for young people, How You Can Save The Planet, published by Penguin Books, August 2020.

She is a board member of the Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian, serving on the Scott Trust’s investment committee. She also services on HM Treasury’s Assess Management Taskforce.

She was a Member Nominated Trustee of the Pensions Trust for five years until Spring 2013. Catherine was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2014.

Previously Trewin created Global Action Plan 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 Student Hubs and been a trustee for the New Economics Foundation

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.

Prior to this, he spent six years as Tesco’s Head of Environment, delivering Tesco’s switch to 100% renewable electricity, roll-out of UK’s largest retail network of electric vehicles charging points, Tesco’s partnership with WWF and the launch of a new fund to address deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado. Kené’s roles at Tesco follow a 15-year career in sustainability – as a consultant at the Carbon Trust and Carnstone, as a practitioner at Cadbury and for international leadership organisation, AIESEC.

Jake has been active within grassroots movements and organising for the best part of a decade. He also co-coordinates communications for Green New Deal UK, and is an editor at Red Pepper magazine.

He chairs the Business Interest Group for the Valuing Nature Programme; the International Standards Committee on Sustainable Finance; and the British Standards Institute’s committee on sustainability. He is a trustee of the Green Purposes Company which regulates the Green Investment Bank (now Group), and the Broadway Initiative pushing for ambitious environmental legislation. Peter co-founded Aldersgate Group in 2007 and remains an active individual member.