Trustees

Ted Cantle CBE (Chair) is Professor and Executive Chair of the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo). He was formerly the Deputy Chairman of the Environment Agency, Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council and Chair of the DTI Construction Task Force for local government.

Phil Barton is the Chief Executive of Keep Britain Tidy , the charity which campaigns for a cleaner, greener England and which runs a range of environmental programmes including EcoSchools , Green Flag Awards for greenspaces and Blue Flag beaches. Keep Britain Tidy has recently merged with Waste Watch and launched a new national local pride campaign: Love Where You Live. He formerly worked on regeneration skills for the NWDA, for Defra on rural voluntary sector policy and for Groundwork UK.

John Hobson is an independent policy adviser working on construction, education and sustainability. Previously he was Construction Director in the Department of Trade and Industry.

Derek Osborn CB is a senior environmentalist advising on long-term strategic issues for governments, international bodies, business and the voluntary sector. He is a member of the European Economic and Social Committee and vice-president of their Sustainable Development Observatory for Europe. He is also president of the Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future, and a member of other Boards in the private and voluntary sectors.

Trevor Pugh is Strategic Director, Environment and Infrastructure directorate, Surrey County Council, and has held senior positions in a number of London boroughs. Trevor is an environmental scientist and has championed sustainability in construction and across the range of local authority services.

David Sigsworth is Chairman of Sigma Capital Group plc, Vice President of the Combined Heat and Power Association, and Chairman of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. He has recently been appointed Chair of the Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum, which advises the Scottish Government. He was a main board director of Scottish and Southern Energy plc until March 2005.

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Dr Gill Owen has undertaken extensive research and published widely on energy efficiency, smart meters, distributed energy and demand side response. She is a part-time Senior Research Associate at the Energy Institute at University College London, Vice Chair of the Government’s Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, a Non-Executive Director of the water regulator Ofwat and Chair of the REAL Consumer Assurance Scheme for microgeneration. She was a Commissioner of the UK’s Competition Commission for ten years until 2002 and has also been a non-executive board member of the energy regulator, Ofgem. She has continued a close involvement with Ofgem as a member of Ofgem’s Social Action Strategy Review Group and Consumer Challenge Group. She is a member of DECC's Smart Meters Consumer Advisory Group (and was also a member of this group when it was run by Ofgem).

Judith Ward is an energy policy professional with long-standing practical experience of both the utility and consumer worlds. Over the past six years, Judith has published extensively on policies for GB household smart meters, smart tariffs and demand response with Sustainability First. Her long-term career was with National Grid (1990-2004), where her last role was a six-year period as Group Head of Public Affairs. In her early career, Judith worked in policy roles with the House of Commons Environment Select Committee and the national Electricity Consumers’ Council. Judith has a master’s degree in Energy Resources Management. She was a part-time adviser to the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy until 1st April 2012. Judith is currently a Trustee of the Institute for European Environment Policy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Energy Policy Group at the University of Exeter. Judith is a member of the DECC / Ofgem Smart Grids Forum.

Sustainability First Research Officer

Maria Pooley joined Sustainability First in July 2011, working full-time on the GB Electricity Demand project. Maria is an energy policy professional with five years’ experience working for the energy and environment consultancy AEA, where she specialised in climate change policy for clients including local authorities, regional development agencies, DECC, Defra and EU bodies. She has a first degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and a masters in Environmental Technology, Energy Policy from Imperial College.

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