Jamie Clayton - Air Quality
Jamie is the People and Performance Director of the air quality team at Ricardo, leading the team of over 150 consultants. He has a wide variety of experience relating to air quality matters in the local government, industrial, private development, central government, energy, and nuclear sectors. This has involved a combination of site and office-based projects, investigating various facets of the airborne environment. Jamie has a long record of providing support to UK public sector organisations and regulators. He was a key member for the Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) Helpdesk (delivered on behalf of Defra) for almost a decade (2014-2024) and assumed the role as lead developer of the Emission Factor Toolkit (EFT) between 2016 and 2024. He has provided project management support for a range of different air quality projects including: incident management, complex modelling studies for clean air zones, and national air quality monitoring networks.
Jamie is an elected member of the committee of the Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM). As an IAQM committee member Jamie has chaired working group meetings in relation to guidance updates, he has also drafted insights articles and hosted webinars around the interactions between Air Quality and Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence.
Tom Adams - Air Quality
Tom is a Principal Consultant at Ricardo. He has 14 years’
experience in the air quality field and specialises in air dispersion modelling
and providing air quality management support for both the public and private
sector. He has extensive experience of managing projects providing Local Air
Quality Management support. Tom is an accomplished user of air dispersion
modelling software and its application to the assessment of air quality impacts
on both human health and habitat sites. He regularly delivers stakeholder
consultation events and capacity building workshops designed to provide air
quality support and identify opportunities for low emission measures.
Tom joined Ricardo from the University of Leicester where he
gained a PhD and post-doctoral experience in the atmospheric chemistry of air
quality. He has extensive experience of developing, optimising and deploying
fixed and mobile instrumentation to measure trace gases in the atmosphere. His
most recent project involved making measurements of real-world emissions of NO2 &
particulate matter from vehicle traffic.
Dr Guy Hitchcock - Air Quality
Dr
Guy Hitchcock has over 30 years' experience of research and consulting on local
air quality management, climate change and sustainable transport. He has worked
in both consultancy and academia, providing technical advice to a wide range of
clients in both the public and private sector. Guy has worked with many UK
local authorities on emission reduction strategies, including the development
Air Quality Action Plans, Low Emission Strategies, Clean Air Zones and Climate
Emergency Plans. He has also managed
large projects for both the UK Government and European Commission including the
evaluation of DEFRA’s Air Quality Grant scheme and the Development of Urban
Accessibility indicators for DG Move of the European Commission.
Charlotte Day - Air Quality
Charlotte is a Senior Air Quality Consultant at Ricardo,
specialising in the analysis of complex datasets, including economic and health
impact assessments, dispersion modelling studies, and emissions inventories.
Charlotte has extensive experience in the preparation of action plans for UK
local authorities, including leading stakeholder consultation events designed
to facilitate action planning. She has developed air quality action
plans/strategies for local authorities including Mid Devon, Blackpool, and Medway,
and delivered Air Quality Impact Assessments and/or Habitats Regulations
Assessments in Ipswich, Oxford, Havant, Isle of Wight, Fareham, Royal Borough
of Windsor and Maidenhead, Eastleigh and others. She has also contributed to
two large scale projects for Defra, involving the development of a monitoring
and evaluation framework for the UK’s Air Quality Grant Scheme, and an
evaluation of the Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI).
Charlotte has worked with a range of non-governmental and
philanthropic organisations, including GIZ, ADB, CAF, C40, and Clean Air Asia.
Her international expertise includes: preparation of Clean Air Action Plans for
seven cities across Asia for ADB; establishment of a Community of Practice for
air and climate practitioners in cities across India and Mexico for GIZ,
development of a data strategy and the design and application of a bespoke
framework to assess city capacities and needs in support of the Breathe Cities
programme. Most recently, Charlotte led on development of an Air Quality
Toolkit for Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) for CAF; she is now
delivering follow-on work to publish case studies alongside the Toolkit and
provide training for DFI project officers to get the most out of the
Toolkit.
Charlotte is a trainer on Ricardo Energy & Environment’s
accredited EMAQ+ programme, delivering webinars and live seminars to local
authorities on a range of subjects including Local Air Quality Management and
Habitats Regulations Assessments.
Oliver Marshall - Air Quality
Oliver is an Air Quality Consultant at Ricardo
Energy & Environment, specialising in air quality assessment, dispersion
modelling, and policy support. He plays a key role in delivering and refining
EMAQ Air Quality training for Local Authorities, helping them meet their
obligations under LAQM Technical Guidance (22). Oliver has developed resources
such as Quick Start Guides and contributes to the Essentials of LAQM training,
ensuring both remain clear, practical, and up to date. He has worked on a range
of national and international projects and is experienced in communicating
technical findings in a way that supports informed decision-making.
Robert Stewart - Emissions Monitoring
Robert Stewart has over forty years practical
experience of environmental consultancy. He provides environmental
permitting support and guidance for industry and regulators and has expertise
in industrial emission measurement and control. His clients have
included: the Environment Agency, SEPA, Local Authorities, UK Central
Government, the European Commission and Industry. His specialist knowledge
spans the range of processes under the Environmental Permitting (England &
Wales) Regulations including LAIPPC (Part A2) and LAPPC (Part B) activities,
Small Waste Incineration Plant, Solvent Emission Activities, Part A1
activities, Medium Combustion Plant and Specified Generators and other
Regulated Activities. Examples of his work include: advising the European
Commission on industrial emissions Directive including solvents, waste
incineration and energy installations. Robert has also provided support on
potential air quality impacts of increased biomass use for heating. Robert is a
technical consultant to the UK National Atmospheric Emission Inventory (NAEI)
on the revision of pollutant emission factors for industrial and other
activities particularly for combustion processes (most recently for residential
solid fuel use) and provides NAEI support to Defra’s Air Quality Expert Group.
He has assisted with revisions of the EMEP/EEA guidebook on emission
inventories and projections to provide emission factors for industrial and
combustion. He has reviewed national emission inventories and emission
projections for compliance with the EU National Emission Ceilings
Directive. He has advised Defra on technical aspects of the Clean Air
Act, Ecodesign Regulations and the Medium Combustion Plant Directive. Robert
has been a trainer on the EMAQ training programme for over twenty years.
Nigel Gibson - Emissions Monitoring and Odour Management
Nigel Gibson has over twenty years' experience in the assessment and control of air pollution from industrial processes, and is Ricardo's foremost expert in the area of odour assessment and control. He has wide experience in the measurement
and control of odour from a wide range of agricultural, industrial, and waste sectors, working both for Local Authorities and process operators. He is deeply involved in developing guidance on odour, where he has assisted DEFRA
in their preparation of odour control guidance documents for commercial kitchens, nuisance control of bonfires and composting. He has also assisted SNIFFER develop their guidance for odour control from animal rendering and SEPA . He has prepared
guidance for SEPA on odour control and health aspects of odour, and has recently prepared guidance on BPM for odour control from waste water treatment in Scotland. Nigel represented the UK on several CEN Working Groups concerned with producing
harmonised emission monitoring methods to serve EU Directives. He has served on the Working Groups for odour, TOC and instrument certification etc. He is the technical assessor of the guidance on emission monitoring prepared for
the CIEH by Ricardo and is the principal author of several CIEH Protocols, including that relating to animal and vegetable processing sectors.
Tony Higgins - Noise Regulation & Permitting
Tony Higgins is a Director
of Enviroconsult Limited specialising in environmental and acoustic consultancy
services. Tony worked in local government regulation for over 25
years, principally in environmental protection, but also as an independent
environmental consultant for the last 15 years working for both local
authorities and private clients. As a regulator Tony is familiar with
evidence gathering, enforcement, and legal processes across a number
of regulatory regimes. His technical expertise covers a broad range of
environmental disciplines including, environmental permitting,
waste, noise and nuisance investigation, environmental
planning, health and safety, and licensing. Tony is a member of the
Institute of Acoustics and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, he
sits on the Measurement and Instrumentation technical group for the IOA and
advises on Noise Panel for the CIEH. Tony's recent work involves
considering planning and permit applications for new residential, industrial
and waste sites, carrying out due diligence assessments for tyre
pyrolysis plants, and assisting with the regulation of major industrial
processes such as SWIPs and machine coating plants. Tony has organised
training sessions for the Institute of Acoustics, and created the EMAQ
Essentials of Noise Course. Additionally, Tony has provided expert
witness advice for councils in both inquiry and court and has sat on the review
of PG and SG notes for incineration, solvents, metals, minerals and
combustion industry sectors.
Tim Glews - Emissions Monitoring & Air Quality
Tim Glews is a Director of TG Environmental
Consultants, specialising in environmental protection consultancy
services. Tim has over 40 years’
experience in Environmental Health, managing Public Protection Services for
Dudley MBC for 20 years, and operating as an independent environmental
consultant since 1986, working for both local authorities and permit operators.
As a regulator Tim is experienced with evidence
gathering, enforcement, and legal processes across the environmental
protection and planning regulatory regimes. His technical expertise covers a
broad range of environmental disciplines including, environmental
permitting, waste management, statutory nuisance and environmental
planning. Tim has achieved Chartered Environmental Health
Practitioner Status and is an active member of the CIEH Environmental
Protection Panel, representing CIEH on the national foundries UK BAT Technical
Working Group. He
has been involved with numerous SG and PG guidance note reviews and is still
listed as UK "expert" for three industrial sectors by CIEH.
Tim is also the Secretary and Treasurer of Midland
Joint Advisory Council for Environmental Protection (MJAC), a pollution
group representing Local Authorities across the greater midland region.
Tim represents MJAC on national technical groups for part A & Part B
activities & on air quality, reporting to Defra on policy and
legislation implementation. Tim is also the owner & lead facilitator
for the LGA National Industrial Pollution Knowledge Hub. Tim has extensive
experience in lecturing throughout the UK & Europe and as an established
visiting lecturer at both the universities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
Tim is a practicing
industrial regulator and experienced manager, evolving policy and practice in
all issues of Pollution Prevention and Control,
his recent work involves processing permit applications for new and varied Part
A(2) and Part B activities, managing emission monitoring to demonstrate
compliance with permit conditions, considering planning applications for
industrial waste management sites, making new applications and representations
to RHI and the Biomass Suppliers List, carrying out permit inspections and risk
assessments of permitted activities, and assisting with the regulation of
major industrial processes such as SWIPs and vehicle manufacture. Tim has
completely reviewed the EMAQ Essentials of PPC training programme and
presentations and written & presented EMAQ training courses for the past 15
years. Additionally, Tim has undertaken successful
enforcement action including prosecuting ‘not guilty’ pleas at Magistrates
court, establishing precedent at high court, managing cases at
coroner’s court and pursuing Environmental Protection and planning appeals
through the public inquiry route.
Alan Leonard - Emissions Monitoring
Alan Leonard has over twenty-five years' experience in environmental consultancy and provides support and guidance for industry and regulators. He has been involved in the measurement and optimisation of emissions from a wide range of stationary sources. As a consequence has developed a technical knowledge of measurement procedures and of processes. He has particular experience in characterising emissions and has provided consultancy on combustion emissions and emission monitoring to UK Government, Industry and overseas clients. In addition his knowledge includes the associated regulation used to regulate these processes. Also he has been involved in producing guidance documents and training for the United Kingdom Environment Agency and a number of private sector operators.
Keith Vincent - Air Quality
Keith Vincent is a Senior Consultant with 30 years' experience in air
quality monitoring and policy assessment. Throughout this time he has
been involved with developing air quality modelling tools, reporting
monitoring data and assessing the impact of measures and regulations on
ambient air quality. He also works in local air quality management
developing air quality action plans and assessing the impact of road
traffic emissions. and took a leading role in ensuring that reported
monitoring and metadata from all UK air quality monitoring networks meet
the required standard. Keith has been an EMAQ trainer for Local Air
Quality Management since 2017
David Hector - Air Quality
David Hector is a Consultant within the Air Quality team based in Ricardo-AEA's Glasgow office, North Ayrshire. He has over seven years' experience in air quality monitoring and assessment and his particular area of expertise lies in automated air quality monitoring networks and the quality assurance/quality control and management of air quality monitoring data. David also has experience in using ADMS, ADMS Roads, ArcGIS and other tools for air quality dispersion studies. Prior to working for AEA, David worked for 2 years in the Waste sector covering pollution control and compliance for active and inactive landfill sites. This included gas migration, surface and groundwater pollution, and soil contamination. David holds a B(Sc) Honours degree in Environmental management and Technology and has been a full member of the Institute of Institute of Environmental Sciences for 3 years.
Professor David Carslaw - Air Quality
David
is a technical director at Ricardo with a joint position with the
Department of Chemistry at the University of York where he is a professor of
urban air pollution. His main interest is urban air pollution and focusing on
the impact that road vehicles have and the development of new data analysis
methods for quantifying air pollution impacts. His research includes the use of
vehicle emission remote sensing techniques and mobile laboratory measurements
used to provide new insights into the impacts that vehicles have on urban air
pollution. David leads the openair project that provides advanced tools for the
analysis of air pollution data, which is used extensively throughout the world
by academia, the public and private sectors. He has published widely on vehicle
emissions and related topics. David has been a member of the Air Quality Expert
Group (AQEG) since its inception in 2002 and was ENDS magazine Power List
winner in 2024.
Jo Green - Air Quality
Jo Green is a Principal Consultant with 11 years experience in the air quality field. Jo has extensive knowledge of a wide range of ambient air quality monitoring techniques and designing suitable monitoring programmes as well as the subsequent data ratification, data interpretation and reporting. Jo is an experienced project manager and has managed a wide range
of air quality projects for key UK and international Government departments, local authorities and private industry. She is currently project manager for the Kent and Medway Air Quality Monitoring Network and numerous Local Authority air
quality monitoring contracts. Other significant projects Jo has managed include the development of a methodology to summarise air pollution effects on ecosystems; a long-term trunk road air quality monitoring network for the UK Highways Agency;
a pilot study looking at the development of a Geographically Specific Emissions Inventory for the EEA; and an investigation into the impact of motorway Active Traffic Management on emissions and air quality. She also is responsible for
one of the key projects which makes up the Environment Agency's new national air quality emergency response service.
Mark Attree - Air Quality
Mark Attree is a Senior Consultant at Ricardo Energy & Environment working in the Environmental Evidence & Data Practice. His areas of expertise include atmospheric physics, dispersion model sensitivity, and dispersion in complex urban environments. Mark provides consultancy services for a range of public and private sector clients, including emissions inventory compilation, local modelling for planning and permitting, and large-scale urban and regional modelling to support air quality action planning. He also has extensive experience providing technical support and software training for clients in the UK and abroad.
Mark Broomfield - Air Quality & Emissions Monitoring
Mark Broomfield is an air quality, odour and health impacts specialist with a BA in chemistry from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in atmospheric chemistry. He has worked in these areas since 1992, both within the consultancy sector and as an industry specialist at ICI. He provides technical, strategic and research support to industry and regulatory bodies. He has contributed to over 250 industrial permitting applications and follow-on support projects. He also works closely with clients to deliver obligations under the land-use planning and local air quality management frameworks. Mark also contributes to seminars and conferences on air quality, health and waste-related topics - for example, as an invited speaker and panel member at a European Commission expert workshop on geological risks of unconventional gas (autumn 2012). He is a member of the UK Natural Environment Research Council Peer Review College and industrial supervisor of a PhD student at the University of Birmingham.
John Shelton - Noise Regulation
John Shelton is an experienced acoustician specialising in the instrumentation. John is the Managing Director of AcSoft having set up the business in 1994 following experience working developing loudspeakers at Goodmans, and later working with Bruel & Kjaer UK as an area sales engineer.John has specialisms in the measurement of sound intensity and source location techniques, as well as managing technical sales of instrumentation across the UK. John spent two years at Brüel & Kjær in Denmark gaining experience in VXI-based virtual instrumentation and development of software measurement solutions, ultimately taking responsibility for worldwide sales & marketing. John is an active member of the Institute of Acoustics and sits on several national committees and working groups on measurement & instrumentation is the Chair of the IOA Measurement and instrumentation group.
John Watterson - Emissions Inventories
John Watterson is the project manager of the UK GHG Emissions Inventory compiled on behalf of Defra. He has experience of the estimation of many of the main GHG emissions, for example, from combustion, industrial processes, waste disposal and an appreciation of emissions and sinks from agriculture and land use change. He is familiar with the international greenhouse gas reporting requirements, for example, the CRF tables and the National Inventory Report. John has been selected to participate in the IPCC scoping meeting for the revision of the "Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas inventories". John prepared a paper for presentation at the Workshop on Energy Balances and Energy related Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (Working Group I of the EU Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mechanism Committee, 24 to 25 June 2003 EEA, Copenhagen). John has assisted with the development of the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) over a period of four years, and prepared the UK's first base cation inventory and developed a speciated mercury inventory. Prior to this John spent over 5 years working on Local Authority Review and Assessment of Air quality and has been a trainer of air quality management to local authorities as part of the EMAQ training programme for a number of years.
Thomas Buckland - Air Quality
Tom Buckland is an Associate Director, Project Manager and
Team Leader working in the Environmental Evidence & Data Practice. Tom has
an extensive track record of successful projects related to air quality and
climate change. Tom specialises in emissions arising from the transport,
industry and waste management sectors and is a member of Ricardo Energy &
Environment's inventory team responsible for the provision of the UK’s National
Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI). Tom is experienced in the preparation
of Low Emission Strategies and Climate Action Plans for cities in the UK and
overseas. Tom regularly leads stakeholder consultation events and capacity
building workshops designed to identify opportunities for low emission measures
and policies.
Robert Benney - Air Quality
Robert Benney is an Environmental Consultant within the Air Quality and Environment Practice specialising in the impact assessment of Road, industrial and waste management facilities. Robert provides air dispersion modelling and human health impact assessments for a range of private and public sector clients, for facilities including mixed-use developments, large road infrastructure, large scale waste infrastructure projects, landfill sites, agricultural holdings, organic waste treatment sites, and onshore oil and gas facilities. Robert is a core member of Ricardo’s feasibility studies team, developing the evidence base for measures to achieve the UK’s air quality action plan and review team supporting Local authorities assess air quality assessments in support of planning applications.
Rohan Patel - Air Quality
Rohan is a Consultant in the Modelling and Assessments team at Ricardo Energy & Environment. He has over two years of experience in air quality consultancy, having been employed at Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC) prior to Ricardo. During his time at CERC he gained experience and in-depth knowledge of setting up air dispersion models for complex small and large urban areas, as well as industrial applications. Projects he has undertaken vary from local council, international, research and model development projects giving him a wide range of experience in the air dispersion modelling industry. Problem-solving skills in the industry have been developed through providing advice and technical support to dispersion model users whilst working on CERC’s helpdesk. Rohan has also gained experience in carrying out training courses in the use of ADMS for a range of clients across the UK.
Stephen Stratton - Air Quality
Stephen Stratton is a Consultant within the Air Quality team based in Ricardo-AEA's Glasgow office, North Ayrshire. He has over seven years' experience in air quality monitoring and assessment and his particular area of expertise lies in the quality assurance/quality control and management of air quality monitoring networks and data. He is also experienced in using ADMS, ADMS Roads, ArcGIS and other tools for air quality dispersion studies. Stephen holds an Honours degree in Physics and is a member of both the Institute of Air Quality Management and the Institute of Environmental Sciences.
Patrick Harland - Air Quality & Odour Management
Patrick Harland is an Air Quality Analyst Consultant in the Evidence & Policy Team, specialising in air quality modelling and analysis. Patrick provides analysis and field work support for odour management and nuisance complaints. Patrick joined the Evidence & Policy team following a Masters in Environmental Engineering and a Bachelors in Medicinal Chemistry from Newcastle University. During the masters Patrick conducted a project examining the impact of large scale events on air quality in Newcastle upon Tyne, examining a wide range of pollutants over an 18 month period. Prior to joining Ricardo Patrick undertook a PGCE in Secondary Mathematics and holds qualified teacher status.
Ella Wingard - Air Quality
Ella Wingard is an Air Quality Analyst Consultant working in
the Evidence & Policy team, specialising in air quality policy, management,
and analysis. Ella provides technical support in stakeholder consultations and
capacity building workshops, as well as analysing data to develop air quality
policy recommendations. Ella has a First-Class Honours in Environmental Science
from the University of Leeds with a study year abroad spent at Queensland
University Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Her final year research project
involved analysing the UKESM1 climate model output with Python to investigate
the historical and projected relationship between the stratospheric polar vortex
and Australian climate variability.
Judith Nathanail - Contaminated Land Management
Judith Nathanail is a Director with Land Quality Management Ltd and has over 25 years’ experience in the field of contaminated land management. She has degrees in Geography and Geology from London University and an MSc in Engineering Geology from Imperial College London. She has worked for Wimpey Laboratories, Wimpey Environmental and Delta Simons and joined LQM in 1999. Judith has carried out and project managed numerous phase 1 and phase 2 risk assessments and has extensive field experience in most aspects of site investigation. She has been involved in a range of remediation projects including air sparging and bioremediation. Judith is a co-author of the LQM/CIEH Suitable 4 Use Levels and has worked on various research projects including NanoRem (a EU project on NanoRemediation) and D4S (an innovate UK funded project on renewable energy.
Liz Smith - Anti-social behaviour
Liz Smith has worked in Community Safety and
Housing for 23 years with the last 15 of those years being at Stockport Homes
in Greater Manchester.
Liz is committed to the continuous improvement
of community safety services in Stockport and has been responsible for the
development and implementation of a range of strategies, policies and
procedures relating to crime and ASB, this has recently included the transfer
of private sector casework from the Council and providing a tenure neutral ASB
service across Stockport.
Liz is passionate about customer engagement and
working with residents to help shape services and improving the life chances of
vulnerable victims and perpetrators to ensure that ASB is successfully tackled
and not tolerated.
Ian Marriner - Noise
Ian Marriner is a Director of Price Marriner & Associates Limited, a consultancy specialising in regulatory compliance across a range of disciplines. Ian worked as an Environmental Health Practitioner in local government for over 20 years and had provided consultancy services in the private sector for the last 13 years. Ian is legally qualified and specialises in investigation and enforcement skills training within regulatory enforcement.
Colin Cobbing - Noise
Colin
is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental
Health: Fellow of Institute of Acoustics; and an external examiner for the IOA
He has over 30 years of experience
of taking complex and high-profile projects from inception through planning,
design, build and into operation. He is a leading advocate for human
centred and total design solutions, optimising all aspects design that affect
human health and comfort and which impact on the environment.
He has shaped best practice in
noise assessment and sustainable design and has been integrally involved in the
production of standards and guidance documents that are used in planning and designing
new development. Amongst other things: he has been a long-standing member
of the BSI Committee EH/1/3, which is responsible for BS4142:2014+A1:2019; co-authored a chapter in
‘Uncertainty in Acoustics’, about the management of uncertainty in noise assessment
processes; and was one of a small group of
practitioners who brought the CIEH, IOA and the ANC together to produce
the Professional Practice Guidance: Planning and Noise for New Residential
Development. He was also a core member of the ProPG working
group. He recently co-authored a paper that was published in the
May/ June Acoustics Bulletin on areas of divergence between the ProPG and
the Acoustics, Ventilation and Overheating Guide (published by the IOA and
the ANC).
Mark Roberts - Waste
Mark started working for Ricardo in February 2023, prior to
this he worked for the Environment Agency for 22 years. He spent 15 years
carrying out compliance work at various permitted waste sites and regulated
facilities. During this he gained a range of experience in the planning
and delivery of inspections and audits at waste facilities. He has developed a
wide range and depth of understanding of site management plans and
environmental management systems. He is experienced in reviewing and auditing
written management systems, identifying environmental risks, and resolving
complex compliance issues. Mark worked closely with sites and their operators
to help improve environmental performance. He also worked with EA partners such
as the Fire Service and Local Authority’s tackling complex and high-risk sites,
to resolve compliance issues and design improvement plans. This included
creating written site risk assessments, fire and accident management plans and
off-site receptor plans. Mark is also experienced in preventing and disrupting
waste crime and tackling illegal waste sites.
Michael Campbell - Transport
Michael is a Principal Consultant within the sustainable transport team at Ricardo Energy & Environment, leading and advising on projects for public and private sector customers. Specialist expertise includes the decarbonisation of transport across all sectors, electrification of vehicles and fleets, alternative and renewable fuels, infrastructure requirements, technology appraisal, current and future transport policy, and regulatory compliance. Michael is a chartered engineer with over 20 years’ previous experience in the Automotive and Industrial engineering consultancy of Ricardo in powertrain development, emissions compliance, and CO2 reduction, leading research and development projects for a wide range of automotive and non-automotive clients. This background provides deep understanding of the technical challenges and opportunities for decarbonising vehicles, and of the practicalities of evaluating vehicle performance. Through participation in Zemo partnership and SMMT (industry) working groups, as well as Ricardo projects for a range of public and private sector clients, he keeps up to date with policy and market developments.
Tom Nokes - Transport
Tom is a Senior Consultant in the Sustainable Transport team. He has over six years’ experience as a technical consultant and project manager working on projects addressing climate change and environmental issues, with a focus on sustainable transport and energy. He specialises in corporate and public sector transport decarbonisation, with expert understanding of sustainable transport technologies (i.e. electric, connected, shared), urban mobility, and fleet decarbonisation. As the Net Zero transport lead, Tom frequently provides inputs to Net Zero and sustainability themed strategies. He has held technical lead roles in several studies for both public and private sector clients, taking responsibility for analytical method development, data collection and statistical model delivery in Excel and Python. He is skilled in leading challenging stakeholder engagement activities, with his work on European Commission projects demonstrating an ability to manage and balance the views of different stakeholder groups. Tom’s project experience has also given him an appreciation of financial and economic themes, allowing him to support projects across the value chain from the evidence base through to implementation. He recently achieved a certification for Sustainable Finance from the University of Cambridge.
Jekabs Jursins - Air Quality
Jekabs is an Air Quality Consultant at Ricardo, coming from a background in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Leeds. His main area of expertise is air quality impact assessments for road transport, and air quality and emissions policy in Europe. Most recently, Jekabs has led the technical delivery of projects relating to Local Air Quality Management (LAQM). These include the development of Air Quality Action Plans (AQAPs), compilation of Annual Status Reports (ASRs) and conduction stakeholder engagement workshops in developing air quality mitigation measures. He also has experience in the delivery and quality assurance of air quality impact assessments for Low Emission Zones (LEZs). He has recently been appointed as a subcommittee member of the Institute of Air Quality Management’s (IAQM) Early Careers Network (ECN).
Augustina Krapp - Transport
Agustina Krapp is a Senior Consultant in
Ricardo's Sustainable Transport team, with experience in project management,
qualitative analysis and stakeholder engagement. She holds a Master's degree in
Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United
States) and a degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
(Argentina). Since joining Ricardo, Agustina has led and contributed to
projects for governments, NGOs, and private sector clients across Europe and
Latin America. Her work primarily focuses on analysing mobility trends and
addressing key road transport topics such as electric mobility, urban
logistics, green jobs, and corporate green travel plans. She has also worked on
aviation-related projects, particularly assessing the social impacts of air
transport policies, as well as climate adaptation strategies for ports.
Prior to joining Ricardo, Agustina worked with NGOs in the United States,
Argentina, and Europe, where she coordinated and authored knowledge products
and policy analyses on transport, equity, climate change, and sustainability.
Jack Davison - Air Quality
Jack is a senior consultant and data
specialist, with expertise in air quality and wider environmental data. His
role focuses on transforming complex datasets into clear insights through
dynamic data visualisations, reports and dashboards, powered by efficient,
reproducible analytical approaches. He is a collaborator on the 'openair'
project - a free, open-source collection of data tools to help air quality
practitioners get the most out of their data. Jack is also a Posit Certified
'tidyverse' Instructor, and has led data analysis training for clients as
diverse as Defra, the UK Health Security Agency, the UK Environment Agency, and
the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand. Jack has a PhD in
Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of York, with a focus on kerbside
monitoring of road transport emissions.
Elizabeth Bates - Air Quality (Guest Speaker)
Liz Bates is currently the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at
City of Bradford MDC Council (Sustainability Team) where an extensive class C+
Clean Air Zone (CAZ) was introduced in September 2022. She
oversees the operation and collection of data from Bradford’s extensive air
quality monitoring network and is supporting health researchers at Born in
Bradford (BiB) with an extensive Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of the scheme.
Liz has over 25 years’ experience in local air quality management (LAQM) having
previously headed up the air quality team at City of York Council. She has a
keen interest in policy development and implementation, currently sitting on
the Environmental
Policy Implementation Community (EPIC) group. She has previously
served as an IAQM committee member and played a lead role in the development of
the Air
Quality Hub. When not dealing with air quality matters she can usually be
found planning and delivering fun activities for her brownie guide pack.
Matthew Clark - Air Quality (Guest Speaker)
Matthew is the Programme Manager for Air Quality, Sustainable Growth/ Public Health Service at Hertfordshire County Council. With a background in Plant Biology, Environmental Health and Public Health, Matthew has spent the last 15 years working in local government leading on air quality aspects first in Shropshire (West Midlands) and now in Hertfordshire.
He is also a member of the Environmental Protection Advisory Panel for the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), which influences and delivers the organisation’s policies and stance on air quality and other key environmental pollutants
Dr Rebecca Howe - Air Quality (Guest Speaker)
Rebecca is the Air Quality
officer at Leicester City Council, with a background in Atmospheric Physics and
remote sensing. She runs and analyses several air quality monitoring networks
across Leicester which help to evaluate interventions and determine areas of
concern, and she is the internal consultant for air quality matters for the
planning department. In addition, Rebecca is competent in data analysis, coding
(MATLAB and R), and GIS mapping. She took an interest in environmental science
during her final year Master’s research project on the Black Carbon aerosol and
decided to make the switch from astrophysics to atmospherics. Rebecca holds a
PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Leicester with a focus on
LIDAR remote sensing of aerosols, and she has presented her work at multiple
conferences internationally.
Anthea Anderson - Air Quality (Guest Speaker)
Anthea has over twenty years of experience working for local
authorities relating to transport policy and strategy development and the
provision of transport input to the development of Local Plans, including
strategic transport matters.
Anthea has recently been appointed as the Transport Service
Manager (Transport Strategy) at Leicester City Council. The team’s work remit also includes leading
on all aspects relating to air quality matters. She is also a Member of the
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
Dr James Hodgson - Air Quality (Guest Speaker)
Dr James Hodgson is an interdisciplinary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, specialising in GIS mapping of air quality concentrations and urban heat islands in the West Midlands. With a background in the health and performance impacts of air quality and meteorology on elite and recreational athletes, James has since worked for the Institute for Global Innovation Clean Air team examining air quality inequalities and net zero policies, translating research into policy impact. He is currently working on the Zero Emission Bus Regional Area (ZEBRA) scheme in Oxford and the West Midlands ADAPT project which focuses on developing a step-change in regional climate adaptation under future scenarios.
Steve Manning - Air Quality (Guest Speaker)
Steve Manning is a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner who has worked in the environmental space for the past 36 years and spent much of this time in the field of air quality. He has worked extensively across UK authorities including Bristol, Stroud, London Borough of Lambeth, Wiltshire and currently Newport City Council. Steve has a passion for what he does and has enjoyed opportunities to be innovative with air quality work during the five years he has been at Newport; this includes bidding successfully for Welsh Government LAQM funding for air quality projects which he has delivered for communities across Newport annually. He is the current chair of the Welsh Air Quality Forum and seeks through this to galvanise authorities in being bold with their project activity however seemingly unaffected by air quality pressures they may feel. This approach may have helped inspire the unprecedented demand for funding bids made to Welsh Government this year.
