Experience

Wildlife and Countryside Link
• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Chief Executive

  • Sep 2019 - Present

Liberal Democrats
• Australia
• Political Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Liberal Democrat PPC for Wantage

  • Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee
• Policy adviser to the Secretary of State

  • May 2018 - Sep 2019


Westmill Solar Co-operative

• Director

  • Jun 2015 - May 2019

  Westmill Solar Co-operative owns and operates the first community owned solar farm in the UK - perhaps the largest community owned solar project in the world. The increasingly biodiverse site consists of 30 acres of PV panels generating 4.8GWhr/year – the equivalent to a year’s electricity consumption of 1,400 homes in Oxfordshire and enough to prevent 2,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually. Westmill Solar Co-operative owns and operates the first community owned solar farm in the UK - perhaps the largest community owned solar project in the world. The increasingly biodiverse site consists of 30 acres of PV panels generating 4.8GWhr/year – the equivalent to a year’s electricity consumption of 1,400 homes in Oxfordshire and enough to prevent 2,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.


WWT (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust)
• Head of Government Affairs

  • Oct 2015 - May 2018


RSPB

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Parliamentary Programme Manager

  • Jun 2013 - Oct 2015

  Coordinating the RSPB's Parliamentary team in promoting action for nature, primarily through legislative and policy change in Westminster and Whitehall. Particularly focusing on the importance of nature in economics, health and well-being and climate change mitigation and adaptation. We are always happy to help any matters of environmental policy. Coordinating the RSPB's Parliamentary team in promoting action for nature, primarily through legislative and policy change in Westminster and Whitehall. Particularly focusing on the importance of nature in economics, health and well-being and climate change mitigation and adaptation. We are always happy to help any matters of environmental policy.



House of Commons

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Clerk

  • Oct 2010 - Jun 2013

  Advising the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, followed by the Home Affairs Select Committee on matters of policy and Parliamentary procedure. Advising the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, followed by the Home Affairs Select Committee on matters of policy and Parliamentary procedure.



House of Lords

• Kuwait
• Mobile Gaming Apps

• Researcher

  • Sep 2005 - Nov 2010

  Parliamentary researcher for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer Highlights included amendments to the Climate Change Act 2008 and drafting and advocating the Public Demonstrations (Repeals) Bill. Parliamentary researcher for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer Highlights included amendments to the Climate Change Act 2008 and drafting and advocating the Public Demonstrations (Repeals) Bill.


University of Cambridge
• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee
• Supervisor in social and political science

  • Oct 2008 - Jul 2010