Board

George Martin
Chair

Coventry University

George is Head of Sustainability with Willmott Dixon Construction's Re-Thinking Business Unit, a new initiative aiming to deliver sustainable buildings for all sectors. George is also a Non-Executive Director of The Academy for Sustainable Communities, an Associate of the UK's leading sustainable development charity Forum for the Future and a member of both the Sustainability Forum and the Sustainable Procurement Task Force. He has is also an Interim Board member of the recently established UK Green Building Council. Prior to this current appointment, he was Director of Sustainability at BRE where he worked closely with Government on their policy for sustainable housing. At Forum for the Future working with Jonathon Porritt, George became an advocate for pioneering sustainability work with the corporate sector. George joined Forum for the Future in 1999 from Tarmac where he was Director of Environment for Tarmac Construction Services (now Carillion) and Managing Director of Stanger Science and Environment.
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Jon Bootland
Director

Director
Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF)

Website: http://sdfoundation.org.uk

Jon Bootland is Director of the Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF). The SD Foundation particularly focuses on building clients and funders, with current programmes including SHINE – the learning network for sustainable healthcare buildings, and The Good Homes Alliance. Jon is also an Associate at Forum for the Future, an Advisor to the Academy for Sustainable Communities, and a Special Advisor for Sponge (the sustainability network for young professionals). He was previously an Associate Director at CIRIA and prior to that was Director of Regeneration and Policy at The Prince’s Foundation.
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Jonathan Aves
Board Member

Foundation Director
Hertfordshire Community Foundation

Website: http://www.hertscf.org.uk

David has worked within the private, public, education and not for profit sectors. For the past 22 years he has been running charitable organisations. David has recognised expertise within sustainable development and maintains links with that area of work as a voluntary director of a number of organisations. He has sat on many government bodies and advisory panels. He has spoken at or chaired events around the world. David speaks reasonable Spanish, French and, at times, German. He is learning Mandarin. He is 54, married, with a daughter, 21, and a son, 16. Having lived for 21 years in Hackney, London, he now lives in Bishops Stortford. He is a keen conservationist and enjoys cycling and reading, thankfully not at the same time. Having once been fit, he found that his broad mind and narrow waist were changing places; he set a target of fitness for 2007 that ended in the successful completion of the London Triathlon for oldies - it remains a painful experience! David is CEO of Hertfordshire Community Foundation, an endowed charity encouraging philanthropy to tackle needs and deprivation in Hertfordshire. He is part of a number of task groups working on sustainability locally.
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Ian Cooper
Advisory Board Member

Eclipse Research Consultants

Ian is a partner in Eclipse Research Consultants – an independent consultancy formed in 1984 and specializing in the procurement, management and operation of the built environment. He now spends significant slices of his working life undertaking independent third party evaluations and facilitating stakeholder engagement exercises of one kind or another. He joined SDF as an associate and board member in October 06, having been involved in the Foundation since its inception. Ian is also a visiting professor in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford and an associate of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd. Ian has kept a watching brief on the unfolding of sustainable development, particularly as it has impacted on the construction industry, since 1987. He has extensive experience of research design and management, dissemination, exploitation and impact assessment, for the EU, major UK government agencies, public sector bodies, voluntary organisations and other funding sources.
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Suzy Edwards
Advisory Board Member

Suzy Edwards is Director of Business Development for Embercombe, a charity established to inspire people in their business and personal lives 'to take committed action for a truly sustainable world'. Suzy joined the SDF as an associate and board member in October 2006. Suzy is also a Director and Trustee of Friends of the Earth and Chair of Camden Climate Action Network. For the last 4 years, Suzy has been an independent environmental consultant with particular expertise in construction materials and life cycle analysis. Previously, Suzy headed the sustainable materials team at the BRE, developing Environmental Profiles and the Green Guides to Specification. She has a passion for ethical food and for the last two years she set up and ran the West Hampstead Local Food Festival and an ethical eating extravaganza in Islington, North London.
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