External Advisory Committee Member
Profile
Chris is retired and lives in the Shropshire Hills, just outside Ludlow.
He has a strong technical background, with a degree in Physics and am a Chartered Engineer. Chris has spent his professional life in IT looking at the behaviour of large systems and how they interact with their social context and other actors in a situation. It is this ‘system’ approach that is now forming an emerging part of how future energy provision will work in Shropshire.
Chris is Chair of Trustees for Zero Carbon Shropshire. He is also a Director of Ludlow 21 and lead its energy working group, and am a Trustee of Hands Together Ludlow, the local community volunteer group. He is Chair for the Shropshire Climate Action Trustee board, and Chair of its Steering Group and lead its Energy Working Group.
Additionally, he has been a beekeeper for over thirty years and still teaches at the local group. He spent six years as a Trustee of the British Beekeeping Association, chairing their Education sub-committee.