Andy is currently executive director of the environmental campaigning organisation Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, where he heads up the organisation’s focus on tackling climate change and the loss of our planet’s natural diversity.

Andy has worked in a wide range of international development charities and has a strong track record of campaigning on environmental and social justice issues.

Before joining Friends of the Earth, Andy was Policy & Campaigns Director at development charity Tearfund, where he oversaw the establishment of policy and campaigns work as a core focus for the organisation. He initiated Tearfund’s work on climate change, ensuring that the organisation was the first major development agency to identify climate change as a ‘poverty’ issue and begin campaigning to address the impact of climate change on developing countries..

Andy was an organiser and spokesperson for the UK’s Make Poverty History campaign and serves on the Board of the Stop Climate Chaos charity coalition.

Andy has also worked as Campaigns Coordinator and then General Secretary of the Chile Committee for Human Rights, Coordinator of CAFOD’s Working in Partnership programme and Latin America Desk Officer at what is now Progressio.

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