Brigette is an internationally recognised Sustainable Finance and Nature Expert, with over 15 years’ experience working across environmental consultancy, finance and space technology. She specialises in assisting organisations to strategically identify, manage, and report their environmental and social impacts, risks and opportunities. She is Director of two environmental consultancies that enable the finance sector to embed sustainability and science into everyday decision-making, redirecting financial flows away from harmful activities towards environmentally positive investments. 

She has been appointed as a Green Finance expert by the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and has previously been recognised as Female Ag-tech founder of the year. She is considered a thought leader having presented at global conferences such as Biodiversity COP16 and New York Climate Week on her current focus; leveraging space technology to develop innovative solutions that help financial institutions manage climate and nature-related risks and capitalise on their opportunities.  

Brigette holds a BSc in Environmental Science, an MSc in Environments, and is a Certified Advisory Board Chair. She has been an active member of the IES since 2016, and most recently she has been a member of the Climate Action Community Steering Group, contributing to several IES webinars.

She was elected to the IES Council in 2025.

Roisin is a Chartered Environmentalist with 14 years’ experience in environmental consultancy covering soil resource, hydrogeology, contaminated land, and regeneration throughout the UK, Europe and Middle East. Her experience covers a range of sectors including Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, Environmental (& Social) Impact Assessments, energy, rail, infrastructure, utilities and, commercial and industrial sectors. 

She has an MSc in Environmental Hydrogeology, a BSc (Hons) in Archaeology & Palaeoecology and more recently a PG Dip in Regenerative Food, Farming and Enterprise.  Roisin started her career within a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy focussed on hydrogeology in the contaminated land sector before shifting her focus to technical specialist lead for EIAs and championing the importance of soils in our natural and built environments.

Roisin was also a contributing author to the Society of Brownfield Risk Assessment’s (SoBRA) Guidance on Assessing Risk to Controlled Waters from UK Land Contamination Under Conditions of Future Climate Change, Aug 2022. She is the Honorary and International Secretary for the Speleological Union of Ireland, an organisation which promotes cave exploration, science and conservation within Ireland and internationally.

She was elected to the IES Council in 2025.

Itunu is a dedicated Chartered environmental practitioner with 19 years’ experience providing compliant and pragmatic advice to private and public sector clients on a wide range of environmental permitting projects in sectors such as utilities, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), port infrastructure and oil and gas. She is currently a Principal Environmental Consultant with CARES Group where, based in their Nigeria office, she oversees environmental projects and activities in Nigeria and Tanzania.

As the pioneer Environmental Manager for Tetra Pak West Africa, she worked closely with potential local recyclers in Nigeria and Ghana to develop and facilitate beverage carton recycling in West Africa. She successfully introduced beverage carton recycling to Nigeria which resulted in her winning an Innovation Excellence Award at Tetra Pak.

She began her environmental career as a Technical Standards Analyst at Wessex Water UK where, using a carbon accounting tool, she was part of a team that successfully incorporated sustainable measures into technical design standards for water and wastewater treatment processes, ensuring compliance with applicable engineering standards and sustainability guidelines.

She was elected to the IES Council in 2025.
 

Denise is a Chartered Scientist and Chartered Marine Scientist. She has worked with the Economic Community of West African States for over 13 years on a variety of projects including the West African Biodiversity and Climate Change Project and the Agro-Hydro- Meteorological (AGHRYMET) Committee, where she worked on policy making. Before this, she worked in the Oil and Gas Division of the Federal Ministry of Environment and the National Institution for Oceanographic and Marine Research, both in Nigeria. She is an Expert Reviewer of the IPCC and an Application Review Panel Member for the IES. She is passionate about EDI.

Denise has a Bachelors degree in Marine Sciences from the University of Lagos and a Masters degree in Environmental Planning and Management from Johns Hopkins University. She is currently carrying out her doctoral research at University College London, where her research explores advancing sustainability initiatives in the health sector to reduce carbon emissions. Denise seeks to apply her crosscutting, interdisciplinary experience to achieving the IES goals in line with its Theory of Change.

She was elected to the IES Council in April 2024.

Iain is a Chartered Environmentalist and sits on the IES’s Application Review Panel. With over 30 peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations, Iain is currently the Associate Dean: Learning & Teaching at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). Prior to his time in academia, Iain worked for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and UK and Scottish third sector organisations advancing environmental policy. Iain brings experience of strategic development, governance, and leadership through his roles as Trustee of three Scottish Charities: Environmental Protection Scotland (2015-present), University of the West of Scotland (2020-23), and Ayr Amateur Opera Company (2020-22).

As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Iain has a focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), and is currently an EDI Champion at UWS, where he also sat on their LGBT+ Staff Group as well as the Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team. Iain is keen to see the widening participation of under-represented groups within STEM and will play an active role in taking forward IES’ commitment to EDI within their Theory of Change.

Iain was elected to the IES Council in April 2024.

Kerry is a Principal Science Advisor within the Scottish Government, advising Ministers and policy teams on a broad range of subject areas from agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions to circular economy and waste. She has a background in biogeochemistry, with a strong publication record focusing on carbon and greenhouse gas cycling through peatland and tundra ecosystems. During her research career, Kerry managed multiple international research projects, supervised successful PhD students, was secretariat to the Royal Society’s Global Environment Research Committee, and sat on the leadership committee for a NERC doctoral training partnership.

Kerry then moved to environmental charity, Fidra, where she led the development of a chemical pollution programme. By sharing scientific expertise and a passion for environmental improvement, she worked with UK supermarkets and suppliers to initiate a phase-out of PFAS from food packaging, developed investor initiatives to encourage responsible chemical management, and fed into multiple forums on post-Brexit UK chemicals policy. Kerry is also a strong science communicator, having spoken across multiple popular media outlets (Channel 4 News, Costing the Earth), investor platforms (Environmental Funders Network) and expert panels (pre-screening and promotional events for the Dark Waters movie).

She was elected to the IES Council in April 2024

Eric is a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University and a Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He is the last Chair of the Foundation for Water Research and comes to IES from this role. His 45-year career in environmental hydraulics began in New Zealand and he has worked extensively in both New Zealand and Australia with 18 years in Newcastle upon Tyne as an academic. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer, and his work has extended from hydropower, river, and coastal projects to research on dispersion in river and coastal waters, sediment transport and river and coastal morpho-dynamics. Before retiring, Eric was on two national committees of Engineers Australia, IAHR committees and several advisory bodies. He spent 7 years developing and applying models of mixing in Darwin Harbour, and sediment transport models of significant rivers in the Northern Territory.

He has produced several hundred papers and reports and over 30 years supervised many PhD and MSc candidates who have contributed successfully to their disciplines and their nations.

In retirement he is presently serving on the CIWEM Council, is Chair of the ICE North-East Seniors Group and is an active chair of an NHS Trust Governors working group.

He was elected to the IES Council in 2023.

Chris is a Consultant and Air Quality Group Lead at Hoare Lea. His experience includes air quality assessments on a range of projects from initial site feasibility, through planning and development to construction and operation. Along with work at the planning stage, including Environmental Impact Assessments, he has more recently been involved in the testing and assessment of indoor air quality (IAQ) and furthering understanding of how building design contributes to IAQ in the detailed design stages and operation.

Chris became Chair of the IAQM in January 2023, having previously been a committee member for three years. In the past he has been closely involved with the IAQM Early Career Group Committee, organising a number of well-attended discussion meetings in Manchester, and a committee member of the IAQM for the previous three years. In addition to his involvement with IAQM he is also a founding member and Vice Chair of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Air Quality working group.

He is a Chartered Environmentalist and has an MSc in Air Pollution Management and Control as well as holding a range of other memberships and qualifications. Chris is focused on promoting the crucial health and wellbeing role that air quality plays in our built environment and the opportunity that buildings play as part of this.

He was elected to the IES Council in 2023.

Professor Ed Hill CBE is Chief Executive of the National Oceanography Centre, one of the world’s most innovative oceanographic institutions. He has a research background in physical oceanography, specialising in the circulation of continental shelf seas and participated in over 20 research expeditions. Ed received his MSc and PhD degrees in oceanography from Bangor University and his BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Sheffield. 

Professor Hill has served, and continues to serve, on numerous national and international advisory bodies, including: International Steering Group of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the European Marine Board (EMB), the cross-Government UK Marine Science Coordination Committee (MSCC), the Governing Board of the National Partnership for Ocean Prediction (NPOP) and is the Head of UK Delegation at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO (United Nations). He has contributed to the IES’ Marine & Coastal Community and guest edited the recent journal on the Decade of Ocean Science. He was appointed a CBE in 2020 for services to environmental sciences. 

He was elected to the IES Council in 2022.

Bernard is a Life Fellow at Hughes Hall in the University of Cambridge, and an environmental scientist with over 30 years’ experience of teaching and research. He was both founding Director of the Cambridge Unit for Landscape Modelling and initiating Director of the MPhil in GIS and Remote Sensing. He has supervised c100 successful PhD and master’s candidates including many mature and developing-world students who now play leading environmental roles in government and NGOs.

Bernard’s research has contributed novel technologies. These include development of airborne laser-scanning methods for ‘seeing through trees’ which have revolutionised the world-wide discovery and mapping of archaeology under forest canopies. He has published widely and contributed to a number of radio and television programmes in the UK and Europe. He has forged strong links with industry acting as consultant on major projects to a variety of organisations including DP World, Harwich Haven Port Authority, the Forestry Commission, Environment Agency, European Union, and national and local governments. 

He was elected to the IES Council in 2022 and elected as Vice Chair in October 2023.