Mark has nearly 40 years’ experience in the environmental field and related areas e.g. sustainability and planning.

He has developed environmental policy/strategy for many in the private/public sector and has led/reviewed numerous research projects and programmes. He has served on a range of Professional and European Committees.

Mark founded Temple in 1997 and has also worked as a Director of SECBE (South East Construction Built Environment), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) – Innovation Advisory Board and was on the Ceequal Board (CIRIA).

Mark is passionate about delivering meaningful change to deliver on sustainability, hence the reason for setting up TSF.

Nick is a chartered architect with 40+ years of experience at a senior level in the built environment sector. Having developed a broad portfolio of work with his practice LCE architects, founded 30 years ago, he has come to recognise that most ecological and social impacts are locked in at the design phase. As a result, he has set up a new practice, Lomax Design, committed to affect change in the design process and to promote the true values of collaboration, community and legacy to suggest solutions for the problems that humanity faces today.

Rachel is a Chartered Environmentalist. Her 40 years of experience has been achieved working across government, consultancy and industry, both in the UK and overseas.

She is passionate about the environment and working to achieve best practice. As Client Representative for Environment, she has played a key role in establishing the new High Speed 1 railway as a benchmark for environmental performance. For this she was awarded Railway Manager of the Year 2013 and received the MBE for services to the rail industry in 2014. Rachel has wide interests and volunteers regularly. She is delighted to be a Trustee of TSF and support innovation in sustainability.

John is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer. He served as a Director at Arup for 20 years and is now a senior consultant. He has worked on major national infrastructure projects including large stations in London. He is interested in how these major projects shape cities and communities, and how they can be delivered sustainably for long term benefit.

Gary shares the core beliefs of the Southwood Foundation that the world needs to move towards a more sustainable future and needs to work towards this at pace, with passion and with pride.  He bring over thirty years’ experience as a knowledge broker and advisor in the public, private and professional sectors including serving as Deputy Chief Scientist in Natural England & various roles in Defra.  His particular specialism in foresight and futures analysis, applied in the development of environment and sustainability strategies, is fundamental to the innovation of solutions, approaches and technologies.

Caroline joined the Southwood Foundation in July 2019 to help us convene and drive innovative responses to the climate emergency, bringing a wealth of experience in community building, communications and organisational development at the national and local levels.  Caroline’s career has spanned management of European social policy programmes and communications in the European Commission, pan European negotiations on employment and disability rights, leadership in launching and implementing Barclays’ ground breaking work on inclusion and diversity globally, and a breadth of experience in strategy development and community engagement in the charity sector.

James has work experience in sustainability outreach for consultancy, research & non-profit sectors in Europe & the Middle East. He holds an MSc in Environment & Sustainable Development at the UCL Bartlett Institute of Planning and a BA in International Relations. In 2016 he became a founding member of Dycle, a start-up that uses circularity in a new biodegradable diaper.

orem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.