Robin Buxton - Chairman

Robin as been involved with the Earth Trust and the Wittenham Clumps since 1982 as Warden,  Executive Director, Trustee and Chairman.

He read Applied Biology (Natural Science) at  Cambridge University and DPhil at Oxford on The Ecology of Termites in Tsavo National Park, Kenya.

Robin’s involvement with Oxfordshire conservation includes chairing Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum since 1993, helping set up the Oxfordshire Woodland Group and chairing his late sister, Patsy Wood’s legacy charity.

Ian Curtis

Ian Curtis is the Development Officer for Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute. He is the founder of Oxfordshire ClimateXchange, a Board member of Low Carbon Oxford, and trustee of Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum. In previous lives he was a professional cricketer, management consultant, and Oxfam volunteer. Ian is obsessed by the marketing of the green challenge.

Felicity Dick

Felicity Dick is a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire with a passion for community projects and providing and expanding opportunities for everyone to enjoy, understand and contribute to their environment and the natural world.   Felicity ran a Surestart family centre in Oxfordshire, is a Director of Appleton Community Shop and involved in several other local charities and community projects.

Andy Duff

Andy Duff is currently Chairman of Severn Trent and Senior Independent Director of Wolseley plc. He spent 16 years in BP’s downstream business working in Asia, Europe and the US. Following that, he was Group Chief Executive of RWE Npower. He is a member of the CBI President’s committee and a fellow of the Energy Institute.

Geoffrey Griffiths

Dr Geoffrey Griffiths is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Reading University. His main areas of interest are landscape and biodiversity, GIS and habitat restoration. Geoffrey is a Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, member of British Ecological Society and Secretary of International Association for Landscape Ecology (UK)

Anne Kelaart  

Anne is an Oxfordshire farmer and until 2008 was Chairman of the Trustees of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG).  Anne has served on the Executive Committee of the CLA and the Council of English Nature and  is President of Oxfordshire CLA and of Oxfordshire CPRE. She was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 2004-5 ,when her theme was the Rural Dimension, and appointed Deputy Lieutenant in 2007.

Richard MacDonald

Richard MacDonald was Director General of the NFU from 1996 to 2009 and has wide knowledge of farming , the food industry and Government Affairs. He was awarded the CBE in 2002. He is now Chairing a Defra Task Force on Better Regulation , and is a Non Executive Director of Moy Park,Dairy Crest and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.

Russel Matthews    

Russel Matthews is a chartered forester and chartered landscape architect who has worked in academia, local government and environmental consultancy.

In addition to his professional interests Russel is a keen golfer, enjoys good wine and keeping bees and is a passionate supporter of the Welsh Rugby team.

Martin Wilkinson

Martin is a qualified accountant who was Finance Director of a major academic publishing company for over fifteen years. He also undertook FD roles in two other Oxford based businesses before retiring from full time employment in 2006. He nows spends his time as a Non Executive Director of small local companies and as a Trustee of a number of charities.