Mark has over 35 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 Lomax is a chartered architect and founded his own practice, LCE architects, nearly 30 years ago. The practice has worked across 5 continents and from the outset, has promoted passive design measures tailored to the local climate. He passionately promotes design measures which reduce building energy consumption and associated carbon emissions and minimises reliance on active building services systems, which he first practised in West Africa in the 1970s. From this, he became an early proponent of climatically appropriate measures in the UK as recognised by being a recipient of the inaugural Observer Ethical Building of the Year Award for the Jubilee Library in Brighton (shared in collaboration with Bennetts Associates).

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 Turzynski is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer. He served as a Director of Arup for 20 years and is now a Senior Consultant. He has worked in the UK and internationally.

His recent work has focussed on major infrastructure projects including large stations in London. He is particularly interested in how these major projects shape cities and communities, and how they can be developed sustainably for long-term benefit.

Michael is an architect and innovator who has been described as a pioneer of biomimicry. He established his firm Exploration Architecture in 2007 to focus on designing high performance buildings and solutions for the circular economy.

Prior to setting up Exploration Michael worked with Grimshaw for ten years and was central to the team that designed the Eden Project. Regularly booked as a keynote speaker on innovation, his TED talk has had over 1.8 million viewings and his book Biomimicry in Architecture has been RIBA Publications’ best-selling title. Michael jointly initiated the widely acclaimed Sahara Forest Project; the latest version of which was opened by the King of Jordan in 2017.

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.

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.

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