Lynne Frostick and Emma Howard Boyd appointed to Environment Agency Board
Secretary of State for the Environment Elizabeth Truss has appointed Professor Lynne Frostick and Emma Howard Boyd to the Board of the environmental protection body, the Environment Agency (EA).
Hull University Professor of Physical Geography Lynne Frostick will take up the role as lead member for flood and coastal risk from 16 March 2015. Her appointment will run for three years.
The EA’s current Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, Emma Howard Boyd, has also been re-appointed to the board, and will remain in the role until 30 June 2019.
Joining recently-appointed members Gill Weeks and Philip Dilley, Frostick and Boyd will provide ‘non-executive leadership challenge and support’ to the executive through taking part in regular meetings, committees and groups. They will also undertake individual lead roles on relevant issues and with local operational teams.
Part of the appointment process involves a declaration of political activity (if significant). Both Frostick and Boyd have confirmed that they have not undertaken any significant political activity during the past five years.
Biographies
Professor Lynne Frostick
Professor Frostick is both a chartered geologist and geographer with an academic background in environmental science.
She has been Professor of Physical Geography at Hull University since 1996, and has published over 100 papers and books related to environmental physics, modelling and hydraulic engineering.
She was the first female Honorary Secretary (1988-1991) and second female President of the Geological Society of London (2008-2010).
The professor was also named as the UK Resource Centre’s Woman of Outstanding Achievement in 2009 for leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Emma Howard Boyd
Boyd has worked in financial services for 25 years, covering corporate finance, fund management, sustainable investment and corporate governance.
She was Director of Stewardship at Jupiter Asset Management until July 2014, and currently serves on various boards and advisory committees including the Future Cities Catapult (Vice Chair), the Aldersgate Group, the 30% Club Steering Committee, the Executive Board of The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project, and the Carbon Trust Advisory Panel.
From April 2015, Emma will take up the role of Chair of responsible investment charity, ShareAction.
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