IEEP board members
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Caroline Jackson (MEP)
Caroline Jackson is chair of IEEP's Board of Trustees. She is a Conservative MEP for the South West region of England, having been re-elected in June 2004. She has been an MEP since 1984 and previously represented the constituency of Wiltshire North and Bath.
Between 1984 and 1999 she was Conservative spokesman on the European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Consumer Protection and Public Health. This is one of the main committees involved in negotiating the final form of EU legislation in such key policy areas as GM foods, and measures to prevent global warming. During her time as spokesman she was responsible for reports on directives on landfill policy, product safety, food additives, better protection for package tourists, and on the use of live animals in experiments.
From 1999 to June 2004 she was chairman of the Committee, and continues to be a member of the Committee. As the Conservative Party Environment Spokesman she is giving a high priority to investigating the reasons for the poor implementation of EU law throughout the Member States and to ways of addressing this.
Born in 1946 in Penzance, Cornwall, she was educated in Penzance and at St Hugh's College and Nuffield College Oxford. She studied Classics and History and holds an Oxford Doctorate in Philosophy with a thesis on 19th century politics. She is a former research Fellow of St Hugh's College.
Gareth Bendon
Gareth was the Head of the London Dockland Corporation's Executive Office from 1990 until the end of March 1998. He was previously with the Department of the Environment as Head of the Central Unit on Environmental Protection 1987-90, where he was responsible for developing many of the policies, including Integrated Pollution Control, which were enshrined in the Environmental Protection Act 1990, of which he was the Bill Manager. He also led the UK negotiating team preparing for the 3rd North Sea Conference, 1990.
Graham Dalton
Graham Dalton was head of Agricultural and Rural Economics Department in Aberdeen and Chairman of the School of Economics in the Scottish Agricultural College until his retirement in 1997. Since then he has been a pre-accession adviser to both the Polish and Romanian governments and an honorary lecturer in the University of Aberdeen where he currently lectures on environmental economics. His recent research has looked at agricultural sustainability and farm level responses to the anticipated policy situation in both EU member States. In addition, he has been involved in the new and existing design and evaluation of EU pre-accession rural structural policies and has worked for the European Commission studies on a range of national appraisals of rural issues. He is a fellow of the UK Institute of Agricultural Management and received the Institute’s 2002 Farm Management Award for his contribution to the advancement of management in the farming industry. He received the Royal Northern Agricultural award in 1997.
Ralph Hallo
Ralph Hallo is an environmental lawyer and currently European Public Affairs Manager at Econcern, a sustainable energy company with headquarters in the Netherlands. Prior to joining Econcern, he was Senior Advisor European Affairs for Stichting Natuur en Milieu (Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment). He served as President of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB, Brussels) from 2000 to 2005. He has also been a member of the boards of Climate Network Europe (Brussels) and Milieukontakt Oost-Europa (Amsterdam).
Sir John Harman
John was one of the original Shadow Board members of the Environment Agency and became its Chairman in 2000, a post from which he retired earlier this year. His tenure as Chairman saw fundamental reshaping of both Flood Risk and Environmental Protection policy and a significant extension of the Agency’s duties at a time of sharply growing awareness of the reality of climate change.
Prior to that, he had 20 years of local government experience, 13 as Leader of Kirklees Metropolitan Council, and had a leading role in the national associations of local government.
A graduate of Manchester University, he started his working life as a teacher of mathematics in sixth form colleges. He enjoys music and gardening and lives in Huddersfield with his wife Sue and a Huddersfield Town season ticket.