Professor Tim O'Riordan, Chair

Before retiring in July 2005 Tim was Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He has edited a number of books on the institutional aspects of global environmental change policy and practice, and led two international research projects on the transition to sustainability in the European Union (1995-1999). His current research interests are focused on global-local relations and their implications for the transition to sustainability in Europe. He is also involved with user groups, in the practical application of deliberative and inclusionary processes for the reallocation of scarce water resources in Broadland, and in the management of the public private partnership for flood alleviation again in the Broads.

He has served as Chairman of the Environment Committee for the Broads Authority, was a member of Norfolk and Suffolk Local Flood Defence Committee, of advisory panels to Dow Chemical and Eastern Group PLC. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1999 and continues to be an active member of the Sustainable Development Commission.

Sir Victor Blank

Sir Victor Blank has been Chairman of the Lloyds TSB Group since May 2006. Former partner in Clifford-Turner (now Clifford Chance) from 1969 to 1981 and Chairman and Chief Executive of Charterhouse until 1997. Director of The Royal Bank of Scotland from 1985 to 1993 and of GUS from 1993 to 2006 (Chairman from 2000). Chairman of Trinity Mirror from 1999 to 2006. A member of the Financial Reporting Council and of the Council of Oxford University. Chairs two charities: WellBeing of Women and UJS Hillel, as well as the Council of University College School. Aged 63.

Sir Anthony Cleaver

Sir Anthony attended Berkhamsted School and went up to Trinity College, Oxford in 1958 as an Open Scholar, graduating in 1962 in Literae Humaniores. He is Chairman of IX Europe plc, the Engineering & Technology Board, SThree plc, Working Links and the Royal College of Music. He is also a Member of the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors and a Trustee of the Oxford University Higher Studies Fund. Sir Anthony was Vice-President of the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development; is President of Business Commitment to the Environment; and was founding Chairman of Business in the Environment from 1989 until 1999. He was a member of the first Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment and Chairman of its working party on environmental management. In 1990 Sir Anthony was named a member of the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour.

The Rt Hon. John Gummer, Lord Deben

John Gummer was Margaret Thatcher's Chairman of the Conservative Party and for 16 years a minister, becoming Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and then Secretary of State for the Environment. His experience as an international negotiator has earned him worldwide respect both in the business community and among environmentalists.

Previous to his ministerial career he was a successful businessman and Chairman of a medium sized plc. In consecutive years, the BBC unprecedentedly awarded him the title 'Parliamentarian who did most for the Environment Internationally', while the NGO community called him 'the best Environment Secretary we have ever had'.

Since leaving office he has held the positions of Chairman of the International Commission on Sustainable Consumption, Chairman of the Marine Stewardship Council and Non-Executive Director of Kidde Plc. He is currently Chairman of The Sancroft Group, Chairman of Valpak Ltd., Chairman of the Association of Independent Financial Advisors, and Chairman of Veolia UK Ltd.

In December 2005 David Cameron appointed him Chairman of the Quality of Life Commission.

Professor Jacqueline McGlade

Professor McGlade has been Executive Director of the European Environment Agency since 2003. Prior to this she was Natural Environment Research Council Professorial Fellow in Environmental Informatics at University College London where her research included spatial data analysis and informatics, expert systems, environmental technologies and the international politics of the environment and natural resources.

Previous appointments have included Director of the UK's Centre for Coastal amp; Marine Sciences, Director of Theoretical Ecology at the Forschungszentrum Jülich Germany, Associate Professor at the Honda-funded International Ecotechnology Research Centre, and Senior Scientist in the Federal Government of Canada and in the USA. Professor McGlade has won various prizes including the Minerva Prize, the Swedish Jubileum Award and the Brno University Gold Medal. She is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture Commerce.

Professor McGlade has worked in North America, south-east Asia and west Africa; she has published more than 100 research papers, and presented and appeared in many media programmes, including her own BBC series The Ocean Planet and Learning from Nature.

Professor McGlade is a Trustee of the Natural History Museum, and a member of the Environment Advisory Committee of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Senate, UK-China Forum and UK-Japan 21st Century Group. She is also Director of View the World Ltd.

Dr Nick Brown, Principal Linacre College

Dr Nick Brown is a University Lecturer in Plant Sciences the Principal of Linacre College since 2010. Dr Brown's research interests range from the microscopic and local to international policy concerns. He is currently working with the Woodland Trust on a project to assess changes in woodland cover in the UK and also investigating the best methods for restoring ancient semi-natural woodland. Dr Brown also works with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Post Conflict Assessment Unit to investigate the environmental impacts of conflicts and pre-existing chronic environmental problems. This work has taken him to countries such as Iraq and Rwanda, and he was also a member of a UN task force investigating the environmental impacts of the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in the Maldives.

Francis Sullivan

Francis Sullivan is Adviser on the Environment for HSBC Holdings plc. After studying Agriculture and Forestry at Oxford University, Francis Sullivan joined WWF-UK in 1987, helping to build their International Programme. In the early 1990s Francis worked on WWF forest policy and was part of the British Delegation to the International Tropical Timber Organisation. He helped set up the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and, what is now known as, the UK Forest and Trade Network. In 1995 he directed the international 'Forests for Life' Campaign which attained over 20 national pledges for forest protection and a target of 10 million hectares of FSC approved forest. He later ran WWF's internal change team 'Action Network', to identify how WWF could achieve quicker results for conservation and development. In 1999 he became Director of Conservation at WWF-UK, overseeing their conservation work worldwide and was heavily involved in establishing WWF's major role in the HSBC 'Investing in Nature' programme. In 2004 he was seconded to HSBC as their Adviser on the Environment. HSBC now has an environmental action plan covering diverse topics such as property and purchasing, lending, and asset management, and are the world's first 'carbon neutral' major bank.

Sir Crispin Tickell

Sir Crispin is Director of the new Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University. Most of his former career was in the Diplomatic Service. He was Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission (1977-80), Ambassador to Mexico (1981-83), Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration (1984-87), British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1987-90), and Warden of Green College, Oxford (1990-97). He is an author and contributor to many publications on environmental, climate and related issues.

Dr Angela Wilkinson

Dr Angela Wilkinson is Director of Scenarios and Futures Research, at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, University of Oxford.

Her interests lie in helping organisations and groups to learn from the future, in order to resolve the often global and seemingly intractable problems of the 21st century. She has directed several ambitious public-private initiatives to this effect, including, AIDS in Africa: Three Scenarios for the Future, for UNAIDS and The Future of Water: Navigating a Sustainable Course for the World Business Council on Sustainable Development.

Angela brings over 20 years of analytical, managerial, consultancy and leadership experience, honed in a range of organisations and international bodies, spanning the public and private sector. Prior to Oxford, Angela spent a decade as a leading member of Shell International's Global Scenario team. She holds a PhD in Physics.