Speakers
Jerry Greenfield
Jerry is Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. His official titles at the company include Vice-Chair of the Board and Director of Mobile Promotions.
Along with Ben, he is very active in Businesses For Social Responsibility, a group that works to promote an alternative business model based on socially responsible business practices.
Alice Owen
Alice chairs the Sustainable Development Commission’s Regional and Local Steering Group.
In 2004 she established her own company, Integral Value Ltd, working in the UK and in Vancouver, Canada, seeking to assist organisations in finding ways to realise commercial advantage from taking sustainability seriously.
Kenny Boyd
Kenny has worked in the environmental sector for the last 20 years. He recently undertook a bareskin, solo 7 mile swim between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle.
The swim (the first for nearly 30 years) was in aid of Concern’s work in enabling Bangladeshi people adapt to climate change. Kenny works as a consultant specialising in communication and environmental issues in Northern Ireland and England.
Lyn Donnelly
Having qualified as a Dietitian in the last century, Lyn spent a number of years in clinical and community practice before moving into the arena of health improvement. She is currently Manager of the Southern Investing for Heath Partnership and facilitates its work to implement this regional public health strategy at local level
Claire McCallum
Claire McCallum is Marketing and Promotions Manager for Bryson Recycling, and joined the company in 2004. She is responsible for co-ordinating all company communications. To help spread the word about the company’s services and the benefits of recycling, Claire produces leaflets, newsletters, manages the media coverage and organises promotional events.
Claire previously worked in two local authorities where she dealt with the implementation and promotions of recycling services.
Noel Williams
Noel Williams is the Head of the Energy Saving Trust (EST) in Northern Ireland (NI). His remit is to maximise the effectiveness of EST’s programmes and oversee its long-term strategy in NI whilst addressing the damaging effects of climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and tackling fuel poverty. He achieves this by working with consumers in the domestic and transport sectors, and by supporting distinctive programmes where necessary.
EST funds NI’s only sustainable energy ‘One Stop Shop’ Advice Centre and maintains relationships with key NI partners such as Government Departments, NIE, Phoenix Natural Gas, NI Energy Agency, Firmus Energy, NI Housing Executive, the Oil Federation, Housing Associations and District Councils.
Sara McClintock
Sara McClintock has held the post of Communications Manager at WWF Northern Ireland for the past three years. Her role is to promote the organisation to the media and the general public working on environmental campaigns for freshwater, climate change, marine and sustainable development issues.
She has been working in the communications field for over seven years having previously held roles with a European trade association based in Brussels and as a public relations consultant in London.
Margaret Lee
Margaret is founder and Chief Executive of The Cresco Trust Ltd. which was established in 2003 as a not-for-profit social enterprise based in Derry/Londonderry. Cresco is committed to providing opportunities to learn, engage, and progress, for those people who are disadvantaged within their own community, viewing employment as a route out of poverty towards social inclusion.
The growth of the organisation and accolades won over the last four years are testament to the visionary leadership provided by Margaret, who gained a Masters in Community Enterprise from the University of Cambridge in 2005. Margaret appears on Irish Entrepreneur’s ‘Top 100 Women in Business’ which lists the most proactive female entrepreneurs, north and south of Ireland.
Leanne Rice
Leanne completed her undergraduate degree in geography at Queen’s University Belfast in 2004, choosing to continue her studies with a Masters in Sustainable Development through the Gibson Institute at Queen’s. Upon graduation she initially started working as a Renewable Energy Advisor for Action Renewables before taking on the position of Community Support Officer within the company.
Her role involves working closely with community groups, not-for-profit organisations, SME’s and farmers to promote the growth of renewable energy in N.Ireland and help interested parties find suitable funding for their projects.
Gary McFarlane
Gary is the Director Chartered Institute of Environmental Health NI. He holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Environmental Health and an MBA, both from the University of Ulster. Gary was appointed as CIEH Director in Northern Ireland in late 2001. Gary is also currently the chair of the Northern Ireland Public Health Alliance.
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health is a national, professional, charitable organisation whose mission is to maintain, enhance and promote improvements in public and environmental health. Gary is involved in contributing to the development of ‘healthy’ public policy working with government ministers and departments, local authorities, universities, the NGO sector and the private sector.
Prior to taking up this position in November 2001, Gary worked within both district council and group environmental health services in Northern Ireland local government. Much of the latter is focused on the development of partnerships and alliances to deliver cross-cutting public health and sustainable development issues in new and innovative ways.
Jonna Monaghan
Jonna has been Information Development Officer at Belfast Healthy Cities for the last five years. Her job currently involves research and policy, and she takes a particular interest in evidence based practice. Jonna is responsible for developing Planning for Healthier People, Belfast Healthy Cities’ new series of policy briefs that collate evidence on the health impacts of different policy areas and outline recommendations for how policy can best support health and wellbeing.
Belfast Healthy Cities shapes and influences healthy public policy. The organisation promotes equity and health improvement through intersectoral collaboration.
Martin Doherty
Martin is the Waste Education and Business Development Manager with Belfast City Council. Martin graduated from Queen’s in 1994 with a B.Eng (Hons) Chemical Engineering, Completed post grad in Environmental Engineering at University College Cork in 1995. Started work in UK Waste Management in 1997 moving on to Antrim Borough Council in 1999, before taking up current position in 2000.
Martin is responsible for Waste and Recycling promotions and education in Belfast and has recently taken on a new role of helping to improve the environmental performance of Belfast based businesses and trying to create new businesses to help manage the new waste streams that are constantly emerging.
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