SDG's event Speakers

Jenny has 12 years’ experience in international development and campaigning, as Bristol and South West Fairtrade Co-ordinator and Regional manager at the Leprosy Mission. She is a qualified social worker and managed Housing and Community Care teams in London and South Gloucestershire. She has also worked in theatre-in-education, working with schools on environmental and social justice issues.

Joana has worked as an adviser at the Luso-American Foundation, on sustainability issues, and as an energy officer at the Vale of White Horse District Council in the UK where she was responsible for the implementation of the energy poverty strategy. She was a researcher on education for climate change at Instituto Superior Técnico, coordinator of the Local Agenda 21 in the Council of Cascais. Since then, she has acted as a cabinet member at the Ministry of Environment and as a technical adviser to the Portuguese Permanent Representation to the EU, in Brussels, negotiating legislative proposals related to environmental, climate and energy policy.

Nicola Beech was first elected ward councillor for St George Central in 2016. She was previously Cabinet Member with responsibility for Spatial Planning and City Design, and she set up the Bristol @ Night advisory panel in 2018.