Our experts
Eunomia’s 33 experts are environmental consultants, economists and policy specialists based in the UK, the US and New Zealand. They provide the evidence and practical solutions behind our work on the circular economy, the natural economy and the low carbon economy.
33 experts
Leadership
Mike Bell
Chief Executive Officer
Mike brings 20+ years’ global experience in consulting, strategy, sales & marketing, digital transformation, and innovation across energy, environment, and mobility, with leadership roles at Ricardo, Jaguar Land Rover, United Utilities, and others.
Joe Papineschi
Chairperson
Joe has 30 years’ experience in strategy & policy for waste management & resource efficiency. He’s also our senior specialist in local government, procurement & collection systems.
Sarah Edwards
North America Director and Private Lead
Based in the US
Leading private sector growth in Europe & North America, Sarah specialises in circular economy principles. She works with diverse clients to mitigate their environmental & social impacts.
Andy Grant
Technical Director
Andy is a leading expert in the waste collection sector. His unrivalled understanding of operational issues is highly sought after by both local authorities & global recycling enterprises.
Duncan Wilson
Director (New Zealand)
Based in New Zealand
Duncan is responsible for the operation of the business in New Zealand. He has twenty years experience in the sector including over four years working as a Senior Consultant in the UK.
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Heads of practice and leads
Peter Jones
Head of Public Sector
A skilled policy analyst & creative problem solver, Peter brings his expertise to waste management projects across both public & private sectors. This includes waste legislation, policy & strategy.
Charlie Leaman-Pearce
Low Carbon Economy Lead
Charlie is Eunomia's Low Carbon Economy Lead and an expert in decarbonisation and stakeholder engagement. She specialises in helping complex organisations turn climate ambition into meaningful action.
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Chris Sherrington
Head of Environmental Policy & Economics
Chris is our expert in plastic pollution, marine litter & microplastics. As an economist, he’s particularly focused on using economic methods to prevent waste & improve materials management.
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Kate Thompson
Head of Operations
Kate has extensive experience of carrying out detailed strategic options appraisals, service efficiency reviews and waste management strategies.
Clare Twigger-Ross
Acting Head of Natural Economy
Clare leads work on the social, institutional & policy aspects of flooding. She carries out evaluations, develops social research & uses her skills in stakeholder engagement & participation.
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Richard Waters
Head of Strategy
Richard is Head of Strategy and leads our London office. He supports our private and public sector clients with strategic responses to the risks and opportunities of climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Isabelle Williamson
Sustainable Food Systems and Diets Lead
Isabelle has a strong technical understanding of sustainable food systems, including topics around: food retail; dietary shift; land use and farming; and behaviour change.
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Consultants and specialists
Tanzir Chowdhury
Managing Consultant Economist
Leveraging a decade of economics & research experience, Tanzir is an invaluable asset to our team. He is responsible for economics-related research, policy development, data analysis & modelling.
Alex Forrest
Managing Consultant
Alex brings 20+ years of experience in environmental management, consulting & project delivery. He’s honed his skills during previous roles across the UK, Europe & Australasia.
Adrian Gibbs
Managing Consultant
Adrian has been with Eunomia for 20+ years & has become an expert in the waste sector. He provides strategic business planning, helping clients with due diligence & environmental modelling.
Simon Hann
Managing Consultant
Simon is Eunomia’s life cycle assessment expert. Using his experience in product engineering, he uses footprinting tools & bespoke models to measure environmental impacts for clients.
Pallavi Madakasira
Managing Consultant
Based in the US
With over 21 years of experience spanning materials innovation, investment strategy, and clean energy policy, Pallavi focuses on end-of-life materials management, circular economy policy design, and clean energy infrastructure development.
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Daniel Stunell
Managing Consultant
Daniel is passionate about research, evaluation & policy for net zero outcomes. He strives to develop knowledge that informs research and is a particular expert in food systems & packaging.
Owen White
Managing Consultant
With 20 years of practice, Owen excels in assessment, foresight, scientific evidence integration & global trends. He confidently applies these to decision-making & strategy development.
Ann Ballinger
Principal Consultant
After gaining global recognition for her work in carbon accounting, Ann now leads on this area at Eunomia. She provides invaluable leadership and emissions advice across multiple sectors.
Ayesha Bapasola
Principal Consultant
With a focus on plastics & the packaging sector, Ayesha is experienced in environmental policy design, implementation & assessment to support clients in the transition to a circular economy.
Rob Daniel
Principal Economist
Rob leads our Nature Finance and Governance Team, with extensive experience working in environmental economics, cost benefit analysis and economic modelling.
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Leyla Lugal
Principal Consultant
Leyla is a Principal Consultant, senior modeller, and senior project manager, with extensive experience in the plastic and wider waste markets. Leyla jointly leads Eunomia’s supply and demand modelling, forecasting tailored waste flows and capacity levels to assess the capacity gap and need for investment.
Star Molteno
Principal Consultant
Star leads our work on sustainable land use change, with a focus on food, farming, and forestry. She specialises in trandsiciplinary approaches to produce evidence to inform policy.
Claire Walker
Principal Consultant
With a flair for working with the UK’s local authorities, Claire has used her broad range of subject expertise to deliver practical solutions across hundreds of environmental projects.
Dan Whittaker
Principal Consultant
Thanks to his deep technical knowledge, Dan has extensive project delivery success in construction, commercial & industrial resource-efficiency, and circular economy business models.
Daniel Card
Senior Consultant
With prior experience in policy at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Daniel now brings his invaluable knowledge to the Local Environment team at Eunomia.
Chiarina Darrah
Senior Environmental Consultant
An expert at working with complex datasets, Chiarina has a track record in evaluating & developing policy & interventions, particularly in the fields of waste, litter & natural resources.
Camilla Durrant
Senior Consultant
Using her strong project management skills, Camilla leads teams in environmental research, analysis, policy guidance and more. She strives to help clients successfully adopt circular approaches.
Celia Somlai
Senior Consultant
Specialising in packaging policy, Celia is an advocate for circular & zero-waste initiatives. She draws on her background in environmental engineering to implement grounded data-driven solutions.
Amie Walley
Senior Consultant
Amie is a senior consultant with experience in packaging, waste management and circular economy strategies. She is also highly experienced in conducting waste market assessments across the UK and Europe for investors, including evaluating infrastructure availability and waste ownership.
Michael Kirk-Smith
LCA Specialist
Specialising in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and organisational carbon footprinting, Michael has delivered and critically reviewed LCAs across a wide range of sectors and has led more than a hundred GHG inventories under diverse reporting frameworks.
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Yvonne Rees
Associate
Yvonne has a proven track record of delivering projects around evidence-based strategies, water governance, sustainable land use & stakeholder engagement.
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Questions about our experts
Who leads Eunomia?
Mike Bell is our Chief Executive Officer and Joe Papineschi is our Chairperson. The leadership team also includes Sarah Edwards, North America Director and Private Lead; Andy Grant, Technical Director; and Duncan Wilson, Director (New Zealand).
Where are Eunomia's experts based?
30 of our 33 experts are in the United Kingdom, 2 in the United States and 1 in New Zealand.
What do Eunomia's experts specialise in?
Our experts work across the circular economy, the natural economy and the low carbon economy. The topics that come up most in their profiles are policy and economics (18), circular economy (15), nature and water (8) and public sector (6).
How can I contact a Eunomia expert?
Every profile on this page has a direct email link, and most link to LinkedIn. For anything else, email hello@eunomia.co.uk or call +44 (0)117 917 2250.
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