Our team
Peers for the Planet has over 150 supporters from across the House of Lords, including prominent environment experts and peers bringing expertise from subjects including energy, science & technology, health, transport, housing, food, defense & security, education, business & skills, international relations, international development, governance, democracy & justice and much more.
Our Co-Chairs and Directors are responsible for the formal oversight and governance of the Group’s mission.
Baroness Hayman,
Co-chair
Helene is a Crossbench peer and former Lord Speaker of the House of Lords. She was MP for Welwyn and Hatfield in 1974. After losing her seat in 1979 Helene founded a charity, Maternity Alliance. She was involved in the NHS and a range of national and international organisations working on global health and development and chaired the Whittington Health NHS Trust for five years, from 1990-1996. In 1996, she entered the House of Lords and, following the 1997 General Election, held Ministerial posts in the Transport, Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Health Departments, and was made a Privy Counsellor. In 2011 she was elected by members of the House of Lords to be the first ever Lord Speaker, serving a full term until 2011. Helene previously served as a trustee of the Disasters Emergency Committee and is a former Chair of Malaria No More UK.
Baroness Hayman,
Co-Chair
Baroness Worthington,
Co-chair
Bryony was the lead author of the UK Climate Change Act 2008 and brings over 20 years of environment expertise from her work on climate, energy and wildlife conservation policy in the NGO and public sectors, as well as in the private sector for Scottish and Southern Energy. Bryony has been the Founding Director of Sandbag (now Ember), a non-profit campaign group focused on the EU’s carbon markets; Executive Director for Europe at the Environmental Defense Fund; and Co-Director of the Quadrature Climate Foundation. She currently has board level roles in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors, including Deputy Chair of the board of trustees at WWF-UK. She was created a life peer in 2011 and sits on the Crossbenches..
Baroness Worthington, Co-Chair
Baroness Lane Fox,
Director
Martha is a globally recognised businesswoman, philanthropist and public servant. She co-founded lastminute.com and karaoke company Lucky Voice and is Founder and Executive Chair of Doteveryone.org.uk. Martha was previously Digital Champion for the UK, helping to create the Government Digital Service. She was on the Board of Channel 4 Television and M&S and Chaired the board of the digital skills charity, Go ON UK. Martha is a NED at Queens Commonwealth Trust, Chanel and Twitter. She is Chancellor of The Open University and a Member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy. She entered the House of Lords in 2013 as a Crossbench peer.
Baroness Lane-Fox, Director
Lord Ravensdale,
Director
Daniel is a crossbench peer and took his seat in 2019 as the youngest member of the House of Lords. Outside of Parliament, Daniel is a project director working in the nuclear industry for a leading engineering consultancy firm; he has a strong technical background in nuclear reactor systems design and nuclear safety case development. Daniel is an advocate for environmental issues within Parliament. As well as his work with Peers for the Planet, Daniel is a board member of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and co-chair of the Midlands Engine all party parliamentary group, which he founded in 2020. Daniel has a masters in aerospace engineering from the University of Sheffield and is a chartered engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers..
Lord Ravensdale, Director
Lord Randall of Uxbridge,
Director
John served as MP for Uxbridge from 1997 to 2010 and for Uxbridge and South Ruislip until 2015. He was given a knighthood in 2013 and awarded a life peerage in 2018. He was Government Deputy Chief Whip between May 2010 and October 2013, as well as Environment Adviser to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2017 until July 2019. A lifelong conservationist and ornithologist, Lord Randall is a Council Member of the RSPB as well as a Trustee of the UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum and the Bat Conservation Trust. Currently he is Chair of Thin Green Line, a charity devoted to the welfare of rangers worldwide. He is also Vice-Chair of the Human Trafficking Foundation and in February 2016 was appointed Special Envoy on modern slavery to the Mayor of London.
Lord Randall of Uxbridge, Director
Lord Whitty,
Director
Larry spent his earlier career in the aviation industry and civil service. After a degree in Economics, he joined the Trade Union Movement at the TUC and then GMWU (now GMB). He became General Secretary of the Labour Party from 1984 to 1994, later acting as Tony Blair’s contact on European matters. A Labour peer since 1996, he served as Lords spokesperson in the Foreign Office after the 1997 General Election and was a Minister for Transport at DETR and then a Minister for Environment and Agriculture at Defra. After leaving Government in 2005, he became Chair of the National Consumer Council and Consumer Focus and Board Member of Ofwat and the Environment Agency. He has served as chair or trustee of several charities in the fields of environment; road safety; fuel poverty and energy efficiency; and on the Board of companies dealing with energy efficiency and water retail. He has also conducted a number of Inquiries into energy, consumers and housing. He was a member of the House of Lords EU Select Committee and Chair of its Sub Committee on the internal market, dealing intensively with Brexit and related matters until July 2019 and is now a member of the Lords Select Committee on Environment and Climate Change.
Lord Whitty,
Director
Baroness Sheehan,
Director
Created a Liberal Democrat life peer in 2015, Shas is a member of the Lords’ Select Committee on Science and Technology. Formerly she was a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Energy and the Environment. From 2016 to 2020 she was the Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for International Development. In 2006, Shas was elected as a Councillor for Kew ward on Richmond Borough Council, where she served as an Assistant Cabinet Member for Climate Change, utilising her expertise in environmental technology to work towards a greener Richmond. She also sat on the Planning Committee, Children’s Services Committee and Health Committee.
Baroness Sheehan, Director
Lynette Huntley,
Director
Lynette brings over 20 years experience in public policy, advocacy, business operations and governance. Prior to joining P4P, Lynette was Chief of Staff at Channel 4 Television, where she was also C4’s founding Executive Sponsor for the Environment. Lynette was previously Director for Government & Regulatory Affairs at Ofcom and has held a variety of roles in the public and private sectors, working in the UK and Brussels, including in consultancy, at the European Commission and the UNHCR. She started her working life at the UK Home Office.
Lynette Huntley,
Director
The Group is supported by the P4P Secretariat
Emma Crane,
Head of Policy and Legislation
Emma joined P4P in September 2020 from the Marine Conservation Society where she was Head of Public Affairs, oversaw MCS's legislative and public affairs programme and led the Greener UK fisheries pillar. Emma started out as a corporate lawyer and ran her own business before establishing a high profile advocacy project on HS2 working in coalition to seek better environmental outcomes and working as a parliamentary adviser. She is a local councillor in Rugby with strong experience working across party lines.
Emma Crane,
Head of Policy and Legislation
David Farrar,
Senior Policy and International Programme Manager
David joined P4P in May 2022 from the pension provider Nest, where he worked on investment policy. Prior to this he led the work of the Department for Work and Pensions on legislation for occupational pension schemes on climate change and wider environmental issues. David started out as a librarian prior to joining the civil service, where he also worked on communications, research and analysis. He lives in Sheffield and has a degree in metallurgy and the science of materials.
David Farrar,
Senior Policy and International Programme Manager
Mark Engel,
Policy Communications Lead
Mark Engel, Policy and Communications Lead
Mark joined P4P in September 2022 from the energy regulator Ofgem where he was Head of the CEO and Chair’s Private Office, overseeing the private office team and wider network to provide strategic support, advice, and counsel to Ofgem’s senior leaders. Prior to this, Mark has worked in public affairs roles for an NHS regulator and a Westminster based public affairs agency. Mark has an MSC in Business Strategy and the Environment and is a Committee Member of a London Park.
Mark Engel, Policy and Communications Lead
Mark joined P4P in September 2022 from the energy regulator Ofgem where he was Head of the CEO and Chair’s Private Office, overseeing the private office team and wider network to provide strategic support, advice, and counsel to Ofgem’s senior leaders. Prior to this, Mark has worked in public affairs roles for an NHS regulator and a Westminster based public affairs agency. Mark has an MSC in Business Strategy and the Environment and is a Committee Member of a London Park.
Kyla Taylor,
Policy and Legislation Manager
Kyla joined P4P in May 2021 from ClientEarth, where she was a lawyer in their climate finance team focussing on legal strategies which foster accountability for the impacts of climate change within the financial sector. Prior to this she was a commercial litigator in the London office of an international law firm and has previous experience as a researcher for a Member of the European Parliament. Kyla is a qualified lawyer and has a degree in modern and classical Chinese.
Kyla Taylor,
Policy and Legislation Manager
Alasdair Johnston,
Parliamentary Coordinator
Alasdair joined P4P in May 2020 from the House of Lords Committee Office where he worked on the Constitution Committee and coordinated the parliamentary scrutiny of international agreements on the European Union Committee. He has a degree in History and worked as a parliamentary tour guide before working in the Lords.
Alasdair Johnston, Parliamentary Coordinator
Hannah Messer,
Finance and Operations Manager
Hannah joined P4P in September 2021. She has many years experience of providing operational, communications and business management support for non-profit and public sector organisations, including the NHS and more recently a UK charity supporting the delivery of quality education in Rwanda.
Hannah Messer, Operations & Finance Manager /
Director
