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Why does environmental law matter and what was it like for FIELD back in the early years? Why was the Chernobyl accident important in this context and is ethics in environmental law relevant?

Staff

Trustees

Kate Gilmore (Chair)

Kate Gilmore is an independent consultant who specialises in working with national and international non-governmental organisations. She spent most of the past decade as Amnesty International's Executive Deputy Secretary General.

Previously, Kate was National Director of Amnesty International Australia and had worked in the Australian public health sector, including as an expert in women’s human rights and on violence against women.

Kate has degrees from the University of New England, the University of Melbourne and the former Phillip Institute of Technology.

Owen Greene

Owen Greene is currently the Chair of the Centre for International Co-operation and Security (CICS) and an academic at the Department of Peace Studies (of which he was Research Director from 1994 – 2008), both at the University of Bradford.

In addition to his academic work and international policy advice and programme development activities, Owen has played leading roles in establishing and developing numerous international and UK NGOs. For several of these he is or has been a Board member. These include Saferworld (currently chairing); VERTIC (co-founder and presently Co-Chair); International Security Information Service-Europe (co-founder and also Deputy Chair up to January 2010); The International Action Network on Small Arms (co-founder and early Board Director); Scientists for Global Responsibility/ Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (board); The International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (co-founder and Deputy Chair); and Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (International Advisory Board).

Owen is an internationally recognised expert on issues such as conflict security and development interrelationships, conflict prevention, non-proliferation, arms control and arms reduction. He also works with international and regional agreements in the area of environment, security and conflict prevention and their development, implementation and effectiveness. He is in high demand as a consultant or special advisor for the UN, OSCE, EU, UK and many governments and multilateral policy negotiations and meetings on such issues.

Julian Rush

Now a science and environment broadcaster and writer, Julian Rush spent fifteen years as the Science & Environment Correspondent for Channel 4 News.

Julian began reporting on the environment for the BBC in the late 1980s, where he produced the BBC News coverage of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. His reporting has taken him from the Arctic to the Amazon and he has extensive experience of sustainability issues and policies, both nationally and internationally. He is particularly interested in the challenge of communicating the significance of climate change and its impacts on peoples around the world, and in the political, social and technological solutions for a global low carbon future.

Julian won the prestigious RTS Home News Awards in two consecutive years for his investigative reporting of the causes of the Paddington and Hatfield rail crashes. In 2004 he was short-listed again for an RTS award, this time for his exclusive report that exposed the government's “dodgy dossier” on Iraq, plagiarised from a PhD student’s thesis.

Jon Wonham

Jon Wonham currently is a member of marine advisory group of Videotel Marine International (VMI), a leading provider of distance learning programmes for seafarers. He also acts as a consultant on environmental content in the production of VMI computer-based training courses supplied to the worldwide shipping industry.

Jon has previously held several senior positions within the International Maritime Organization (IMO). In 1975 Jon was seconded from position of Deputy Head, Oil Pollution Division, UK Government's Warren Spring Laboratory to the Technical Co-operation Division of the IMO as marine pollution advisor.

In 1980 Jon became Deputy Director of the IMO’s Marine Environment Division where he was responsible for the MARPOL 73/78 and London1974 Conventions and co-operation with UNEP's Regional Seas Programme regarding protocols on emergency response to major pollution incidents. In the early nineties Jon represented IMO in drafting the Oceans chapter of Agenda 21 in preparation for 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and co-ordinated IMO's subsequent follow-up.

In 1995 Jon was appointed to the Chair in International Transport at Cardiff University. He was designated Emeritus Professor by the university in 2002.

Jon Wonham is author of numerous papers, particularly on issues related to marine environment protection.