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Gary Stewart

Convenor

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Gary is a former General Manager of Festivals Edinburgh where he worked to ensure the organisation, created and driven by the directors of Edinburgh’s major festivals to take a lead on their joint development and maintain their global competitive edge, delivered on its mission and key objectives. His responsibility was to ensure it was an effective and well-managed organisation, to manage and develop the collaborative working process across the festivals, ensure sound financial management, responsible employment and legal compliance as well as lead on governance and legal issues.

Gary joined Festivals Edinburgh from Oval House where he was responsible for the South London theatre’s business, financial and producing activities. Previously, he was in senior management roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Birmingham Rep and Royal Court Theatre in London.

Sam Alberti

Trustee

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Sam is Director of Collections at National Museums Scotland and an Honorary Professor in Heritage Studies at the University of Stirling. For 20 years he has worked at the intersection of museums and universities, first in Manchester, then as Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (including the Hunterian Museum), while holding visiting research appointments in London, Philadelphia and Edinburgh. His recent practice has focused on Cold War museology and the role of museums in the climate emergency.

Anne Marte Bergseng

Trustee

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Anne Marte is Programme Manager ClimateXChange, Scotland’s centre of expertise connecting climate change research and policy. She manages a portfolio of research, engagement and knowledge exchange projects across climate resilience and social change. She has worked in knowledge exchange on environmental and sustainability issues for over 20 years and sits on the Steering Group for the National Centre for Resilience.

Anne Marte is also a trustee for Edinburgh-based outdoor learning charity, The Green Team, and environmental charity, Sniffer, and has volunteered with a range of environmental organisations, in outdoor education and with the NHS.

Katelyn Grant

Trustee

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Katelyn is a Co-Design Assistant at Young Scot, working to empower young people on projects and skills development opportunities covering climate literacy, heritage, policy, equality & diversity and connecting with other partners in the third sector. She has been actively championing equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, recruitment and volunteer outreach through her work on the EDI Board at Young Scot. She is passionate about applying localised improvements at a community level, understanding how the climate and societal inequality are intrinsically linked.

Katelyn graduated with a First Class degree in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh (2020), with a particular interest in environmental utopias, and naturalistic and mechanical themes within painting practice. She volunteered at Inverleith House at the Royal Botanic Gardens (2016-18), aiding the delivery of many environmentally inspired exhibitions and preserving the archival collections of both artist’s books and horticultural artefacts, linking the relationship that nature, science and art share.

Hannah Imlach

Trustee

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Hannah Imlach is a visual artist and researcher based in Glasgow. Over the last 10 years, she has developed a collaborative practice, working within communities of specialist environmental knowledge to create artworks on complex ecologies, emergent scientific research and renewable energy transition. Her projects begin with fieldwork, are developed through an active studio practice and result in site-specific sculpture, film and photography, alongside public events, lectures and publications.

Hannah is a practice research PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh exploring the potential for site- and species-responsive artworks within the RSPB Loch Lomond nature reserve. Her research is supported by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities.

Judi Kilgallon

Secretary

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Judi is the Climate Intelligence Service Capacity Building Manager with the Improvement Service, an organisation delivering support to councils across Scotland to enable effective community leadership, strong local governance and efficient services. She leads on the climate change programme, supporting officers and Elected Members to accelerate the action needed for a sustainable future.

Judi’s work is focused currently on establishing the Climate Intelligence Service, a partnership between Scottish Government, local authorities and Edinburgh Climate Change Institute aiming to provide the data, skills and capacity needed to embed climate change in decision making across local areas. Prior to this, she has worked in various roles across the public sector in change and transformation, always with a keen interest in how different priorities, organisations and sectors can come together.

Lucy Power

Trustee

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Lucy Power (she/her) is Co-Director of Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education, an Edinburgh based not-for-profit focusing on creative climate communication and nature connection. Her particular expertise and knowledge is in the crossover of culture and climate change. Lucy’s academic background is in ecological and environmental sciences, which she studied at the University of Edinburgh.

Lucy is a Churchill Fellow, researching international climate communication and education approaches, and is training to be a climate ambassador with Climate Outreach. She is also an aerial performer and has a passion for combining circus with environmental communication!

Lucy has worked successfully with schools, community organisations, government agencies and the private sector. Her previous experience includes working as an environmental consultant for Whitbybird and Energy for Sustainable Development, as a performer and project manager for te POOKa (an Edinburgh-based performing arts charity), an aerial dance teacher and performer for All or Nothing and Dance Base, and as a research assistant at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences and Sunseed Desert Technology.

Matthew Rate

Trustee

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Matthew is Head of Strategic Planning, Quality, Risk & Compliance at a leading global infrastructure and communications technology provider. He has held many roles ranging from account management, through product development and communications. Prior to this Matthew worked in operational management roles in the retail and hospitality sectors. The common theme across his career has been the desire to drive change by helping organisations see the bigger picture and understand and solve their strategic business problems. He has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Edinburgh.