Ecosystem Services Come to Town

Jim McClelland | Conference Chair & Director of McClelland Publishing
Sustainable Futurist, Speaker, Facilitator and Journalist, Jim McClelland is the ex-Editor and Founder of sustain’ Magazine. With a Master’s degree in ‘The Word & the Visual Imagination’, Jim has amassed over 20 years’ experience in magazine publishing, the majority spent editing journals for the built environment sector. Freelance work includes articles authored for blue-chip global concerns, or international markets via the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Youth Charter for Sports, Culture & Arts and Steering Groups for such as the Defra-backed organisation for young property and construction professionals sharing an interest in sustainable development, SPONGE. He has also sat as a judge for numerous sustainability, design, construction and media awards schemes, on panels for the likes of the Environment Agency and City of London Corporation.
Jim is an experienced Speaker and Chair, from the Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, to Microsoft HQ; Earl’s Court to the NEC; The Great Hall at Chelsea Football Club, to London’s City Hall; and from the Press Box at Lord’s Cricket Ground, to the House of Commons. His Blog address is: http://jimtheeditor.wordpress.com/ and on Twitter as: @SustMeme.

Gary Grant CEnv MIEEM AoU | Chartered environmentalist, ecologist and masterplanner
Gary is a chartered environmentalist and ecologist with 30 years' experience on several hundred projects of ecological survey and assessment, biodiversity action planning, habitat creation, wetland restoration, regional planning, green infrastructure planning, site design and management plans. Starting with the London Wildlife Trust in the 1980s and the ‘Wildlife in Docklands’ project, he is an expert on green roofs and living walls, published by BRE Press, contributor to the London Plan Policy on Living Roofs and Walls and the Green Roof Guidance for Greater Manchester. Projects have included the Westfield living wall, Shepherds Bush; the London 2012 Olympic Park; the Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden; the SE Wales Networked Environmental Region; Bedford River Valley Park Framework; Deep Bay Link in Hong Kong, Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi and Education City in Qatar. Gary has also published extensively on design for green and living roofs and walls. Gary is a Director of the Green Roof Consultancy, co-instigator of the Integrated Habitats Design Competition and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Committe on Biodiversity.

Dave Farebrother | Environmental Director, Land Securities
Dave leads the highly-regarded environmental team at Land Securities, responsible for pioneering many techniques now becoming common-place within the sector. However, Land Securities remains the only UK property company certified to ISO:14001 for all of its development and property management activities. In post for 15 years, Dave was previously the group’s Energy Manager, and was named the 2007 IEMA Environment Manager of the Year. Dave originally studied for a degree in Astrophysics, spending a short time in the higher education sector before joining Land Securities in their energy team, studying for a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering. Dave then developed Land Securities’ approach to the growing environmental agenda, putting in place its environmental management system, and received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management.
A Fellow of the RSA, Dave is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Member of both CIBSE and IEMA. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Charted Environmentalist and is a current member of the BPF sustainability panel, having previously sat on the equivalent BCO group. Dave is currently Treasurer of the Central London Energy Management Group and a member of the UK Green Buildings Council’s “rapid response team”, as well as being a member of the editorial board for Sustain' magazine.

Chris Knight | Assistant Director, Sustainability and Climate Change, PriceWaterhouse Coopers
Chris Knight has been a member of the PwC UK Sustainability and Climate Change team since 2004, and leads their work on forestry (including REDD), ecosystems and biodiversity. Chris also leads the PwC global ecosystems and biodiversity network, and has in-country project experience in 20 countries. He is a trained environmental scientist and represents PwC on several international REDD and conservation finance working groups including the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Biodiversity Loss.
With 12 years' experience across a range of industry sectors, with a particular specialism in biodiversity, finance and sustainable forestry, Chris coordinates PwC’s work on valuing and accounting for biodiversity and ecosystems, including PwC’s contribution to the TEEB Report for Business.

Dusty Gedge | President, European Federation of Green Roof Associations & Director of livingroofs.org
Dusty is internationally recognised as one of the UK’s leading authorities on living roofs, campaigning for their whole scale adoption in major developments in London and elsewhere in the UK. In 2008, he co-authored Living Roofs and Walls Technical Report to support the New London Plan, for which he was awarded the Andrew Lees Memorial Award. He co-founded livingroofs.org in 2004, the UK's first independent green roof organisation and works closely with colleagues in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Canada and the USA on design and implementation of green roofs. He is co-author, with colleague John Little, of a DIY e-guide for small scale builders to build their own green roofs, and of ‘Building Greener’ the first comprehensive guidance on green roofs and green walls in the UK, published by CIRIA. He is President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations, Director of the Green Roof Consultancy, and co-instigator of the Integrated Habitats Design Competition.

Peter Massini | Urban Greening Team Manager, Greater London Authority
Although gaining a degree in Rural Environment Studies from London University's bucolic outpost of Wye College, Peter has spent the majority of his professional career as a nature conservation professional in the decidedly urban environs of London. He worked for the London Wildlife Trust as the organisation's East London Conservation Manager during the late 1980's and early 1990's where he was much involved in the campaign to save Rainham Marshes, in addition to getting his hands and boots dirty managing nature reserves in Dagenham (yes Dagenham!), Redbridge, and Romford. In the mid 1990's he moved indoors working for the London Ecology Unit on spatial planning issues and establishing the London Biodiversity Partnership.
Having become accustomed to the warmth of a centrally heated office and the allure of a computer screen, Peter went on to work for English Nature (now Natural England) where he had responsibility for the agency's strategic planning and policy work for the London region. During this period he helped formulate and instigate the East London Green Grid. He now works for the GLA co-ordinating the organisation's urban greening and green infrastructure policy and programmes.

Simon Mills | Head of Sustainable Development, City of London Corporation
Simon is head of sustainable development at the City of London Corporation. He graduation from Southampton University with a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Sciences in 1990, and commenced his career by working as a field botanist on Cloud and Elfin rainforest in Northern Costa Rica. On returning to the UK, Simon gained an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment from Aberystwyth University, before working as an ecologist and environmental planner at a number of Welsh Local Authorities where he developed a professional interest in sustainable development. Having completed a Masters in Public Administration, Simon joined the City of London as Head of Sustainable Development in 2000. Simon’s professional interests range from carbon finance to international development. Amongst the highlights of his time with the City of London are- the development of the UK’s first climate change adaptation strategy; the delivery of the UK’s submission on sustainable finance to the Johannesburg Earth Summit and the establishment of Sustainable City Awards. In 2009 Simon was seconded to Defra and the Government Office for London in order to coordinate regional action of climate change adaptation across England.

Sarah Cary | Sustainable Developments Executive, British Land
Sarah Cary is the Sustainable Developments Executive at British Land, where she is responsible for delivering sustainable construction and development and responsible investment activity.
Sarah is an experienced sustainability advisor with a formal background in town planning and urban design. She has previously worked for Turner & Townsend, RPS and Beyond Green developing sustainability strategies for a wide range of building and development projects including government and corporate headquarters, science laboratories, urban extensions and town centre regeneration schemes.
At British Land, Sarah has responsibility for the Sustainability Brief process in development and investment activity, working closely with design and construction teams on environmental and social issues in major construction projects. She is also the lead on British Land’s biodiversity programme and active in British Land’s corporate responsibility strategy and reporting. Sarah is a qualified BREEAM Assessor and LEED Accredited Professional. www.twitter.com/sarahcary

Brian McDonald | Natural Improvement Areas, Natural England

Dr Bob Bloomfield | Head of Special Projects and Innovation, Natural History Museum & UK Co-ordinator of the UN Decade on Biological Diversity
Dr Bob Bloomfield PhD is Head of Innovation and Special projects at The Natural History Museum, London. A particular interest throughout his work has been looking at how understanding of biodiversity, evolution, ecology and natural systems are understood within society. He completed a Doctorate in Genetics before his career in Science and Public Engagement. His work in informal learning and interpretative design at the Natural History Museum culminated in leading the Museum's Earth Galleries and its revolutionary Darwin Centre development. Bob gave evidence at the HOL Select Committee on Science and Society in 1999 and was awarded a NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship in 2002. He is a senior policy developer and strategic manager for the Museum looking at new ways of engagement around science policy, public understanding and diverse partner engagement programmes.

Blanche Cameron Dip Arch AoU | CEO RESET Development & Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Graduate School of the Environment
Blanche founded RESET Development in 2007, with staff and students at the Centre for Alternative Technology. She is co-instigator and organiser of the Integrated Habitats Design Competition. Blanche has been a Senior Lecturer teaching environmental architecture at the Graduate School of the Environment at the Centre for Alternative Technology/University of East London since 2001. She has many years of training and professional experience in both designing and building ecological design projects including community self-build, and has worked in architecture and construction in Germany, France and the UK. Blanche is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism and is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Biodiversity.