{"id":59578,"date":"2015-07-24T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9ce4c7d73c03193625326da53ff833c8"},"modified":"2015-07-24T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T10:27:59","slug":"press-release-environment-agency-board-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59578","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Environment Agency Board appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Existing member Emma Howard Boyd will take up the post of Deputy Chair from 1st July 2015 for four years. Re-appointments have been confirmed for John Varley, Karen Burrows and Peter Ainsworth.<\/p>\n

Board members provide non-executive leadership challenge and support to the executive through regular Board meetings, committees and groups. They also undertake individual lead roles on relevant issues and with local operational teams.<\/p>\n

John Varley has been reappointed to 30th September 2019. Karen Burrows and Peter Ainsworth have both been reappointed to 31st August 2018.<\/p>\n

All non-Executive appointments to the Environment Agency Board are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. The appointments comply with the Code of Practice of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.<\/p>\n

The Environment Agency is a Non-Departmental Public Body, set up under the Environment Act 1995 to take an integrated approach to environmental protection and enhancement in England. <\/p>\n

The Environment Agency has major responsibilities in flood management, water resources and quality, climate change, land quality, chemicals, pollution prevention and control, waste, conservation and biodiversity, fisheries conservation, air quality and navigation. <\/p>\n

There is a requirement for appointees\u2019 political activity (if significant) to be declared. All the appointees above have confirmed that they have not undertaken any significant political activity during the past 5 years.<\/p>\n

Biographical details of Board Members<\/h2>\n

Emma Howard Boyd<\/h3>\n

Emma chairs the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. She also sits on the Pensions and Flood and Coastal Regional Management Committees.
\nEmma is the Area Board Member for Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire and Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. She is also the Board\u2019s Whistleblowing lead. <\/p>\n

Emma has spent her 25-year career working in financial services, initially in corporate finance, and then in fund management, specialising in sustainable investment and corporate governance. As Director of Stewardship at Jupiter Asset Management until July 2014, Emma was integral to the development of their reputation in the corporate governance and sustainability fields. She currently serves on various boards and advisory committees including the Future Cities Catapult (Vice Chair), ShareAction (Chair), the Aldersgate Group, the 30% Club Steering Committee, the Executive Board of The Prince\u2019s Accounting for Sustainability Project and the Carbon Trust Advisory Panel. Her past board and advisory roles have included being a director of Triodos Renewables PLC; Vice Chair and Chair of UKSIF, the UK sustainable investment and finance association, and a member of the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance, set up by the UK Government to make detailed proposals specifically on enhancing the UK environmental industries, technologies and markets. <\/p>\n

John Varley<\/h3>\n

John is a member of the Environment and Business Committee, and Pensions Committee.<\/p>\n

Previously John has chaired the Pensions Committee and been a member of the Remuneration Committee and Area Board Member for Devon and Cornwall.<\/p>\n

John is the Area Board Member for Wessex. <\/p>\n

Significant interests include:
\nDirector of the Clinton Devon Estates
\nBoard Member of Natural England
\nChairman of the Estates Business Group
\nFellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies
\nFellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
\nChairman of the East Devon Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust
\nTrustee of Lord Clinton\u2019s Charitable Trust
\nChairman of the David Arnold Forster Hill Farming Trust<\/p>\n

Former appointments include:
\nGeneral Manager at British Telecommunications plc
\nBoard member of the Countryside Agency
\nCommissioner with the Commission for Rural Communities
\nMember of Governments\u2019 Digital Inclusion Panel
\nMember of the Lawton Review \u201cMaking Space for Nature\u201d
\nMember of the Defra Independent Forestry Panel<\/p>\n

Karen Burrows<\/h4>\n

Karen is a member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, Remuneration Committee and the Environment and Business Committee. <\/p>\n

Karen is the Area Board Member for Kent and South London and Solent and South Downs. She is also the Board\u2019s lead for Health, Safety & Wellbeing and Diversity. <\/p>\n

Former appointments include:
\nProgramme Manager, BG Group Plc\u2019s Fit for the Future project
\nVice President & President, BG Canada
\nCommercial Director, BG Advance
\nDeputy General Counsel, BG Group Plc
\nVice President (South and East Asset), BG Trinidad and Tobago
\nLawyer, Linklaters<\/p>\n

Karen is currently a governor of Cornwall College.<\/p>\n

Peter Ainsworth<\/h4>\n

Peter is a member of the Flood and Coastal Regional Management and the Environment and Business Committees. <\/p>\n

Peter is the Area Board Member for West Thames and, Hertfordshire and North London. He is also the lead Board member for Navigation and Internal Environment Management and the Environment Agency representative on the London Sustainable Development Commission. <\/p>\n

Significant interests include:<\/p>\n

Chair, Big Lottery Fund
\nChairman, Plantlife International
\nEnvironmental Consultant and Founder Member, Robertsbridge Group<\/p>\n

Former appointments include:<\/p>\n

Member of Parliament
\nLocal Councillor
\nDirector of Corporate Finance at a major Investment Bank<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Secretary of State appoints Emma Howard Boyd as Deputy Chair and re-appoints John Varley, Karen Burrows and Peter Ainsworth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}