Career

Employment

2009–presentChief ExecutiveSylva Foundation

2006–2009DirectorForestry Horizons, a project of the Oxford Trust

2005–2006Director of DevelopmentBotanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI)

2003–2005Director of Land OperationsNorthmoor Trust

2002–2003Head of Land ScienceNorthmoor Trust

1996–2002Forestry Research ManagerNorthmoor Trust

1992–1996Assistant Estate ManagerNorthmoor Trust

2022–2024ChairForestry and Climate Change Partnership

2016–2023Board MemberConservation Advisory Committee, Woodland Trust

2013–2023TrusteeFund4Trees

2010–2013ChairmanWalnut Group, Future Trees Trust

2007–2011Board memberSociety for the Environment

2007–2011Council memberInstitute of Chartered Foresters

2007–2008Technical Co-ordinatorInstitute of Chartered Foresters, national conference 2008

2006–2012AppointeeForestry Commission Regional Advisory Committee (South East)

2006–2012ExaminerInstitute of Chartered Foresters

2006–2012EditorForest Science Database international editorial board, CABI

2005–2009TrusteeWoodland Heritage

2002–2005Research co-ordinatorOak research group, BIHIP

2001–2004SecretaryBritish & Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme (BIHIP)

1996–2005SecretaryWalnut research group, BIHIP