NEW TRUSTEES

The following people will be standing for election as trustees of the Environment Trust at the AGM on 19th June 2008.

John Anderson

I used to be a career civil servant working in the Department of Health, latterly holding a number of senior posts directly responsible to and advising ministers on policy. My work involved negotiating with health staff unions, and developing relationships with stakeholder groups and interests. Most recently I worked at Ealing borough council, first in social services, then in a major business transformation programme involving implementation of new work methods and use of council-wide IT systems. In a recent career change, I qualified in Garden Design and am getting going in the area.

Ann Callaway

I was born and brought up in Beckenham, southeast London, where my parents were teachers and we lived at a school. I have a BA in history from Sussex University and, although I had always been determined not to teach, somehow found myself then doing my teaching qualification at Birmingham! I spent 18 years as a teacher in comprehensive schools and loved it. I taught first in Wolverhampton, then for 10 years at Feltham School in Hounslow, before becoming deputy head locally at Waldegrave.

However, I wandered out of teaching because I didn’t want to be a Head and I enjoy change and doing different things. I spent a year at Warwick University on an Industry/Education diploma course, which gave me 6 months placement in industry, and was then lucky enough to move into Unilever as a personnel manager for 18 years until I retired. I worked mainly in international management development and training, sometimes based in Kingston but mainly at Port Sunlight on Merseyside, from where I had responsibility for management development in different parts of the Manufacturing and Supply Chain operations in the North West, Leeds and different sites in Europe.

I have thoroughly enjoyed both the jobs I have done and, having retired, I am still enjoying myself following up some of the interests I haven’t had time for before, and discovering new ones. Apart from volunteering with the Environment Trust, I am doing an art history course at the Victoria & Albert Museum one day a week and I enjoy gardening. I have lived in Teddington since 1971 but always had a slightly schizophrenic life while working for Unilever, so still have a flat in Chester as well, and seem to spend a lot of time driving there and round the country to see friends!

Claire Fifield

Biography to come

Carole Ritchie

Biography to come

Nicholas C Thompson

I am a senior partner of the Twickenham–based award-winning environmental architects Cole Thompson Anders.

I was co-founder and chairman of INTEGER Intelligent & Green, the UK’s leading action research group promoting innovation in building using new technologies and environmental techniques. My architectural practice won the British Expertise International Award for Small Consultancy of the Year in 2006’ for the INTEGER Pavilion in Hong Kong and Beijing. The practice is perhaps best known for the INTEGER Millennium House, which was filmed by the BBC as the ‘DreamHouse’ television series with Carol Vorderman.

I frequently speak at seminars and conferences in the UK and overseas, I have acted as a judge for numerous construction industry competitions, and I was co-editor of Sustainable Architecture published by RIBA in 2007.

I am married, with two sons, and have lived and worked in the Richmond area for many years. My hobbies include painting, drawing and learning Mandarin Chinese.