GLOBAL FEEDBACK - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Campaigner: Industrial Aquaculture
Amelia is a campaigner at Feedback, focusing on industrial aquaculture. She has previous corporate experience working in sustainability teams within a range of food businesses, dealing with net zero strategies, sustainability data, comms and all things B Corp. However, with the growing belief that systems change best occurs best in the ‘fringes', rather than a corporate setting, made the transition to campaigning. Outside of work she is a keen runner, bookworm and member of her local Friends of the Earth group, organising local events and campaigns.
Andre has an MA in Applied Anthropology and Youth Work (JNC) and over a decade of experience supporting youth-led Action in communities grappling with marginalisation and structural disadvantage.
As Director of Programmes: Food Justice he leads on broadening and deepening participation in our work to transform our food system.
Since graduating from the University of Leeds with a BA in Liberal Arts, Caela has been involved in numerous grassroots community food projects, and campaigned on a variety of environmental and social justice issues with the Environmental Justice Foundation. She has also organised local music and arts events across the UK and the Netherlands, and enjoys growing food on her allotment or in community gardens. As Feedback's Digital Campaigner, Caela works to spread awareness of the charity's exciting campaigns and empower people to take action and help transform our food system.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Secretary
- Trustee
Carina's career began in the business world working as a sustainability consultant for Environmental Resources Management, before she realised our planetary ecological crisis would not be solved in the corporate boardrooms in which it was created. She has since worked with several system change campaigning and movement building organisations, including Changing Markets in the UK and the New Economy Coalition in the US. A committed permaculturalist, she founded The Orchard Project, a charity working with community groups in cities across the UK to plant and nurture community orchards in public urban spaces. Carina has also been a Visiting Research Fellow of the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University and is a Research Fellow of the Schumacher Institute. Her book, Frugal Value: Designing Business for a Crowded Planet (Routledge, 2017), provides a blueprint for organisations in an ecologically viable system of production and consumption.
A chemist by background, Cathy has spent her entire career working on energy and environmental issues, first in the energy sector, then in environmental consultancy, when she helped write the world's first environmental management systems standard. Since joining a climate science team in central UK government she has developed the evidence base on climate change in various ways, working with many experts both in the UK and overseas. She has represented the UK in numerous international fora, especially the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Most recently she was working on greenhouse gas removal technologies. She retired from this role at the end of 2023, but continues to be passionate about tackling climate change and has a particular interest in how food systems impact climate.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Trustee
- Policy and Communications Consultant
Darren Hughes is a food systems science, policy and communications consultant with over 30 years of experience working in Government, academia and the charity sector, across food, nutrition, agriculture, the environment and health.
His current clients include: the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, a group tasked with providing independent evidence to inform equitable, healthy and planet-friendly school food programmes, in support of 95+ national governments signed up to the School Meals Coalition; and Innovate UK where he serves as an assessor for Government research grants on innovation.
His previous clients and employers have included the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, Rothamsted Research, the UK Department of Health, the Food Standards Agency, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Government Office for Science, where he served as Private Secretary to the Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
Darren holds a MSc in Human Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in human energy metabolism and appetite regulation.
Frank is leading our independent sister organisation Feedback EU in the Netherlands.
Frank graduated in Agricultural Engineering from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Between 1989 and 2000, he worked as a program manager and sustainable agriculture advisor in Sudan, Nicaragua and Cambodia.
The past 20 years he worked as program manager and policy advisor for Hivos and Oxfam Novib in the Netherlands. He developed and managed an international advocacy programme to promote sustainable diets in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Indonesia and Bolivia and he was co-lead of the UN Sustainable Food Systems Programme.
At Oxfam he supported the development and implementation of public campaigns in relation to food companies and supermarkets to promote fair chocolate (Green Santa Claus) and inclusive and sustainable supply chains (Behind the Brands).
Agriculture, food and production systems, hunger and poverty, exclusion and exploitation. For over 30 years Gine has been working in these areas to find links and lasting solutions. Both at a practical level: implementing and overseeing programmes in Africa for the FAO and extensive travel to other continents for Oxfam. In her close to 20 years for Oxfam Gine has been instrumental in setting the agenda for Oxfam on its rural livelihoods and sustainable agriculture programmes and campaigns on the ground as well as in relation to (multinational) companies. Gine currently work s for a small NGO in the Netherlands ARISA where she is works on the relationship business and human rights with a focus on Dutch/European companies and their supply chains from India. Gine holds an MSc (awarded with honours) of the Agriculture University and Research Centre of Wageningen, the Netherlands. She is a mother for two daughters and lives together with her husband in the Netherlands. When not there Gine can be found in, or on, the water: swimming or sailing.
Job Titles:
- Flavour Kitchen Lead and Head Chef
Ingrid is a chef who has been working with surplus food for over 5 years. After appearing on Masterchef and heading up several commercial kitchens and her own event catering company, Ingrid began leading field kitchens for Real Junk Food Project, Refugee Community Kitchen and Feedback. Her own project SoulFood teaches kitchen confidence, self-care and international cuisine to disadvantaged groups across Brighton, enabling people to explore their food narratives and access better physical and mental health through food . Ingrid leads our Sussex Surplus brand with colleague Phil, training interns, leading outreach kitchens and creating a sustainable and local project in Brighton by using surplus food from our Gleaning Network.
Job Titles:
- Communications Specialist
- Director of Campaigns
Jessica is a communications specialist and has extensive experience of campaigning and communicating on various issues including child poverty, ethical banking, women's rights, climate change and development, working for the Fawcett Society, Move Your Money UK, the Overseas Development Institute and the Child Poverty Action Group. She was also a Fulbright Fellow. Jessica plans how Feedback can spread the word on the challenge our current food system poses to our environmental sustainability and climate, and our hard-hitting campaigns to tackle it.
Justin qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London before moving to be Financial Controller of a start-up Environmental Biotechnology company. From there he co-founded a Chartered Accountancy practice before being appointed Finance Director of Lane 4 Management Group Limited in 2008. He managed the finances of the business through the global financial crash, significant growth, the COVID-19 pandemic and the sale of the business in 2021, whilst maintaining a position in the Times ‘Top 100 Companies to Work For' throughout that period. Justin joined Feedback in 2022 and is a very keen allotment holder and gardener: he recently achieved his RHS Level 2 horticultural qualification. He loves nothing more than cooking and eating the produce from his allotment.
Job Titles:
- Programmes Development Manager
Keenan is the Programme Development Manager for Feedback's Regional Food Economies (RFE) work in Merseyside. His role combines managing various community projects, organisational partnerships, and our development space at Stanley Grange. Keenan has vast experience working in food and hospitality sectors.
Krysia researches Feedback's policy work specialising in Brexit's implications for the food system and sugar beet and soil depletion. She holds a BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics.
Liam works across Feedback's campaigns including industrial meat, aquaculture, and sugar. He achieved his BA in Politics with Spanish from the University of Exeter in 2020, with a focus on political language, psychology, and environmental activism. Since then, he has worked across the London environmental sector and also been involved in vegan activism, voluntary urban wildlife conservation, and has a budding interest in moral philosophy.
Job Titles:
- Senior Project Manager and Lead for Food Justice
Lucy has extensive research skills and is a research associate at the University of Liverpool, and a member of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Lucy is engaged in several research projects with the N8 AgriFood group. She is an active participant in the Sustainable Food Cities Network, Co-founder of the Knowledge Quarter Sustainability Network and supported the creation of the AgroEcoCities European Network. Lucy held the post of Sustainable Food City Liverpool Coordinator for the Liverpool Food People project. She spent 10 years working in food and hospitality within London, running bars in Soho, managing a cookery school and being a PA to a chef; before working for 13 years as Operations Manager & Project Developer for environmental charity the National Wildflower Centre. Lucy joined Liverpool Food People in 2014 and co-founded The Food Domain a network that seeks to provide better access to fresh food for everyone and supports the Alexandra Rose Voucher project in Liverpool.
Job Titles:
- Senior Policy and Campaigns Manager
Martin currently works in policy and campaigns for a variety of Feedback projects focused on food waste, meat, anaerobic digestion and sustainable animal feed. He was previously Feedback's Pig Idea Policy Officer and Stakeholder Coordinator from 2018-19, and the Coordinator for Feedback's Gleaning Network between 2011-2017. In 2016 he gave a TEDx talk on gleaning.
He also worked for This Is Rubbish on their EU food waste campaign, and previously worked on their Stop the Rot campaign. Martin also founded a chapter of Food Not Bombs in South East London.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Trustee
Matthew is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years of experience working across Finance, Risk Management and Governance, oversight of insurance programmes, implementing compliance programmes and providing ongoing assurance, and internal controls.
He's worked overseas on new business ventures and helped with international onboarding of new companies within the wider organisation.
Over the last seven years, he's focused more on governance and has been involved in strategy on a range of projects, including energy transition projects such as creating biofuel from waste.
Maximilian is responsible for our advocacy efforts at the heart of the European institutions, in Brussels. He thereby dives into all our campaigns, such as biomethane, food waste prevention, aquaculture, as well as sustainable trade. Born in Hamburg, his studies led him south to study political science & public administration in Constance, Germany; and Bordeaux, France. He then followed an extra-occupational master's program on "Applied Economy for the Common Good" in Austria.
Politicised by organizing climate strikes, he later helped coordinating the European "WithdrawTheCAP" campaign, advocating for sustainable and fair food systems. After working for Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation's competence center for climate & social justice, Maximilian joined Feedback EU in 2024.
Natasha oversees Feedback's campaigning work on aquaculture, industrial livestock, sugar and food waste. She previously ran a series of high-profile campaigns for the Changing Markets Foundation targeting irresponsible practices in corporate supply chains and campaigned on climate change at the Environmental Investigation Agency, an international NGO with offices in London and Washington D.C. Prior to that she coordinated a push to ban environmentally unsound carbon offsets from the EU Emissions Trading System at Carbon Market Watch and spent five years in Belgium where she worked for the European Commission and in strategic communications and public affairs.
She spent her formative years in France and speaks French, Spanish and German with a smattering of Greek, Swedish, Italian and Dutch. She holds a first-class degree in European Politics from the University of Leeds in the UK and a Master's in EU Political Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Alongside her role at Feedback she is a trustee for Somerset Wildlands, a game-changing new organisation creating space for nature through rewilding. She has a lifelong passion for food, people and the great outdoors.
Nathan is a mathematics graduate from Kings College London. Nathan started out at Feedback as a Finance and Operations intern before being offered a permanent role. Currently in his role as a Trainee Accountant within the Finance and Operations team, Nathan assists the team in matters of financial administration whilst studying for his CIMA qualification.
For over three decades Odiri Ighamre has worked both nationally and internationally as an educator and storyteller in schools, prisons, museums, mental health hospitals and a range of organisations. Her background in Social Pedagogy, youth and community development has led to her training youth workers across the UK. She has also worked internationally facilitating the growth of youth and community leadership in different countries in Africa.
She has co-founded and directed three companies: Women Tellers, promoting the art of Storytelling, Evwreni Productions, a training agency for African and Caribbean Artists in the UK and KORI Youth Charity, whose development she has led since 2002.
Job Titles:
- Community Organiser - Food & Racial Justice
Martin currently works in policy and campaigns for a variety of Feedback projects focused on food waste, meat, anaerobic digestion and sustainable animal feed. He was previously Feedback's Pig Idea Policy Officer and Stakeholder Coordinator from 2018-19, and the Coordinator for Feedback's Gleaning Network between 2011-2017. In 2016 he gave a TEDx talk on gleaning.
He also worked for This Is Rubbish on their EU food waste campaign, and previously worked on their Stop the Rot campaign. Martin also founded a chapter of Food Not Bombs in South East London.
Spokesperson on: Farm level food waste, Food waste in supply chains, Measuring food waste
Job Titles:
- Regional Programmes Manager
Phil oversees the Gleaning Network and runs Sussex Surplus, our community food project in Brighton. He studied Sustainability Science at Lund University in Sweden, attended Shift Bristol's Practical Sustainability Course and has experience working in organic horticulture. He previously led on Feedback's involvement in the Flavour project, an international partnership with organisations in Belgium, France and England, geared towards developing social enterprise models for food waste reduction, which enabled the launch of Sussex Surplus.
Job Titles:
- Buckinghamshire Community Engagement Manager
Joining us in 2020 as our Community Engagement Officer in Buckinghamshire for the Food Citizens Project, she is now project managing Green Futures. Rebecca's background has been centred in youth work and community engagement. She has been involved in both local and international youth mobility projects, alternative learning provision, as well as project managing creative youth arts projects for a local authority. She has experience of fundraising and income generation for both statutory and voluntary sectors as well as front line face to face delivery. All this gives a fresh approach to community engagement and grassroots work in Buckinghamshire through our seed funded projects, youth engagement, employability and partnership working.
Job Titles:
- Treasurer
- Trustee
- Account Manager for Dutch
Rick has worked as account manager for Dutch non-profit organisations with a major Dutch bank since 2018, having worked in banking since 2013. With a network that covers policy-makers, directors, board members and key figures within the NGO sector as well as trade unions and philanthropic organisations, he aims to help Feedback connect and traverse the landscape in which it operates. Raised in a household where key environmental NGO's were omnipresent, his personal beliefs match the current course of Feedback EU and he hopes to pass this spirit on to his twin boys.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of Trustees
- Trustee
Ruth is a respected environmental advocate and has worked with a wide range of not for profit and public sector organisations, helping them to engage with and influence government and parliament. She has been working with Green Alliance since 2017 to provide strategic leadership to the environment sector on major legislation and parliamentary issues. She is an experienced board member, currently serving on the board of a London Housing Association, and served as Senior Independent Trustee at the London Wildlife Trust and Chair of the Campaign for Better Transport. She is the lay member on COMEAP, the expert committee that advises the government on the effects of air pollutants on health and an honorary professor of practice at the UCL Centre for Law and the Environment.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Treasurer
- Trustee
Sarah is a chartered accountant with extensive experience of audit and assurance in the charity sector having lead the not for profit division of PKF Littlejohn for many years. Following her time at PKF she undertook a number of interim finance roles for London based charities and consultancy assignments for Cass Business School. She is also an experienced board member having served on the boards of several mid tier charities, and as chair of the NCVO audit committee.
Job Titles:
- HR and Operations Manager
Shirley's background is in the arts, studying Fine Art at university, and later working in operational roles within arts charities. Since having the opportunity to lead the sustainability working group in a previous role, becoming an active member in the Gallery Climate Coalition, her interest broadened to environmental charities. Shirley's role at Feedback oversees HR, governance, IT, and operations. Outside of work, Shirley enjoys reading and visiting galleries.
Sophie is a senior lawyer and the Environment and Climate Change Practice Lead at international law firm RPC. She is part of RPC's growing multi-disciplinary ESG advisory practice, working with in-house counsel, business leaders and sustainability teams to support their organisations' sustainability initiatives by advising on a range of regulatory, commercial and consumer matters. She is also responsible for coordinating the firm's environmental and climate change work globally. She recently completed a masters in Environmental Law and Policy at University College London.
Job Titles:
- Campaign Co - Ordinator: Food and Climate Justice
Vera coordinates general and campaign related communication, works on lobby and advocacy, supports program development and fundraising, and she contributes to the ongoing development of Feedback EU's strategy and vision.
After setting up an activism programme in Ruigoord and working on communication in various climate action campaigns, she joined Feedback in 2023. Her educational background encompasses computer science (BSc & MSc TU Delft) and fine art (BFA). After graduating from her master's degree in artificial intelligence, she made a conscious decision to prioritize climate action as her primary focus.
Vivian is a senior consultant with experience in international development, food systems, global health, and philanthropy. She is currently advising an alliance of 25+ global philanthropic foundations on food justice, climate, and health initiatives. Vivian is the Managing Partner of Food Health Systems Advisory, a management consulting firm that provides advisory and technical services to the private sector, international organizations and governments on food systems.
Vivian holds an M.Sc. in International Health and Tropical Medicine from the University of Oxford, with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Food Science and Technology. She is a doctoral (PhD) researcher in Food Policy at the City University of London. Board Member at the Lagos Food Bank and Senior Food Security Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Yves coordinates the Our Fish/Notre Poisson project, implemented with partners in West Africa and the UK, and leads Feedback EU's work on EU policy and the private sector with regards to industrial aquaculture and fisheries. He also supports Feedback EU in its institutional development as a young NGO. An anthropologist with an NGO background, Yves joined Feedback EU in 2023 to continue working on changing the food system for the better, and to support communities most affected by its many injustices in their fight.