IEEP board members
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Caroline Jackson (MEP)
Caroline Jackson is chair of IEEP's Board of Trustees. She served for 25 years (1984-2009) as a Conservative Member of the European Parliament (representing the south west of England) and now works as an independent environmental consultant.
During her time as an MEP she chaired the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection committee from 1999-2004 and was Conservative spokesman on the Com from 1984 -1999. The most important pieces of EU legislation that she took through the Parliament as rapporteur were the Landfill directive of 1999 and the Waste Framework Directive of 2008. She was also responsible for a variety of other legislation, including consumer rights in the package tourism field, and the protection of live animals in experiments.
The key issue which she promoted as an MEP, particularly as Chairman of the Committee, was the need to ensure better compliance with EU legislation - a theme now being taken up by the European commission. She is a member of the Advisory Board of SITA UK plc, and an advisor to EMPAC EU. She is Chairman of Environmental Protection UK.
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.
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 Director of Brussels Strategics, a European public affairs consultancy based in the Netherlands. Previously, he was European Public Affairs Manager at Econcern, a sustainable energy company. 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.
Domingo Jiménez Beltrán
Domingo Jiménez Beltrán has extensive experience, mostly in the field of environmental protection, natural resources and energy management and sustainable development, both in private enterprises (production, manufacturing, engineering and consulting) and public administration at regional, national and community level. Domingo was the first Executive Director of the European Environment Agency for eight years until 2002, and later on Adviser at the Economic Office of the Spanish President, founder and first Director of the Spanish Observatory for Sustainability, and is currently a Consulting Engineer and Adviser of Governments, Business and Institutes, in particular of the Spanish Observatory for Sustainability. He is also author, lecturer and professor of specialized courses.