EMEN - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Environmental Projects Coordinator

Andrew is a sustainability professional with over 15 years' experience working in marketing and communications around environmental and social justice issues. Andrew co-founded one of the first event management agencies in the world to take a sustainable approach to projects in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics. He sat on the committees which wrote the BS8901 and ISO20121 standards for sustainable event management, and was named a "London Leader" by the Mayor of London. As part of EMEN, Andrew enjoys connecting, communicating and innovating to amplify the voices of ethnic minority groups in the mainstream environmental sector.

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• Environmental Race Equality Officer

Christopher is a law graduate with an LLB in Scots Law and LLM in International Law and European Union Law, with a particular focus on human rights. Christopher leads our Race Equality Environmental Programme (REEP), which assists mainstream environmental organisations to become more aware of issues around race equality and representation. The programme is funded thanks to support from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. A highlight of Christopher's legal career was taking part in the European Human Rights Project in 2018 and mooting in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He was awarded the GlasGO award for international community work when volunteering with refugees in Germany. During COP26, he took part in an initiative which highlighted how marginalised groups are more likely to be disproportionately affected by climate change. Through EMEN, Christopher enjoys developing networks with ethnic minority communities and looking at environmental issues through an intersectional lens.