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Charles Secrett

Chair of the Green Bedales Panel

Charles currently works as an Advisor on Environment and Sustainability to the Office of The Mayor of London and Visit London.

He is a Board Member of the London Development Agency and Chairs its Health and Sustainability Advisory Group.  He is the Chair of the Triodos Bank Renewable Energy Fund.

Charles was Executive Director of Friends of the Earth from 1993 to 2003.  He has written extensively on a wide range of environmental and sustainable development topics, and enjoys working with local environment and community groups.

Charles has worked on environmental research and investigation projects in Malaysia, Nigeria, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica and Nicaragua; and was a member of the Government's Commission for Sustainable Development for ten years.

Max Fordham

Max is one of the UK’s foremost authorities on environmentally friendly engineering. He studied physics at Cambridge, then took a postgraduate engineering conversion course. He worked at Ove Arup Associates before he founded his own partnership, Max Fordham & Partners in 1966. The firm, now Max Fordham LLP, employs over 100 engineers.

Max believes that the servicing of buildings should contribute to their design, rather than detracting from them. His firm develops sustainable solutions for building services, including heating, water and electrical installations, which will have a relatively low impact on the environment. His firm has won dozens of awards and has worked on high-profile projects such as the Hackney Empire in London, The Poole Arts Centre, Tate St Ives and the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

He is a visiting professor in Building and Design and the University of Bath and was President of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (2001–2002).

Siân Berry

Siân was elected Female Principal Speaker at the Green Party's annual conference in September 2006. Previously the Party's national Campaigns Co-ordinator, she is one of the founders of the successful campaign group the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s.

Siân has now been selected as the Green Party's candidate for London Mayor in 2008.

In the 2005 General Election, Siân was the Green Party candidate for the Hampstead and Highgate constituency, and she has campaigned in her local area of Camden for a greener development in the huge Kings Cross railway lands area, and one which provides high levels of social and affordable housing.

Siân studied engineering at university and her professional background is in medical communications.

She has received wide coverage in national and international newspapers and has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows, from Radio 4's Today programme to Richard and Judy.

Ty Goddard

Ty is Director of the British Council for School Environments (BCSE) and for the development and implementation of strategy.

He previously worked as Managing Director of School Works, an organisation aiming to build better schools through consultation and participation bringing together the best in the building industry with the best in education.

Before working at School Works, Ty was Community Strategic Manager at Brighton and Hove City Council’s Schools. He has also acted as an advisor to the DfES on Extended Schools and co-location of services.

In 1998, Ty was elected to Lambeth Council and became Chair of Education. He later combined this with a role in Social Services. Ty has worked as the UK and European Political Advisor for the NSPCC, lobbying around child protection issues, particularly during the passage of the Sex Offenders Bill. He has also worked as National Campaigns Co-ordinator for SCOPE.

Ty has spoken at national conferences for the DfES,
4Children, Sure Start and BURA, among other bodies.

James Hanson

James is an environmental consultant with Jacobs UK Limited, an international engineering and environmental consultancy. Much of his work is delivered for the Environment Agency (EA) in the UK. James has responsibility for gaining new commissions with the EA across the Thames and Anglian regions.

James is a ‘generalist’, dabbling in lots of different environmental fields without committing himself to any one of them. He has ten years’ experience in the fields of Flood Risk Management, Environmental Assessment, Corporate Environmental Due Diligence, Waste Management and Strategy Formulation, Environmental Compliance Auditing, Contaminated Land Investigation and pre-demolition Hazardous Materials Surveys.

He regularly contributes to multidisciplinary design teams involved in flood defence design and construction, city centre redevelopment and commercial new builds. James provides both technical and project management.

Maddy Harland

Maddy Harland is the editor of Permaculture Magazine, solutions for sustainable living ( www.permaculture.co.uk). She and her partner, Tim, founded Permanent Publications, which has published environmental books since 1990. In 2007 it won a Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sustainable Business award.

Maddy is also a founder member of Gaia Education ( www.gaiaeducation.org), an international team of educators developing curricula and courses on the Sustainable Development of Urban and Rural Settlements, endorsed by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and recognised as an official contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD).

In Hampshire Maddy helped found the Sustainability Centre ( www.earthworks-trust.com), a former military base, now a budding community. It hosts conferences and runs a varied non-residential and residential educational programme for adults and children.

She has a daughter in 6.1.