Anthony Carter

Anthony Carter - Chairman


Dugal Muller - Oxford index

Dugal Muller - CEO




Niall Marriott - Director




Dr Tim Reed - Director





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The Directors


Anthony Carter - Chairman: Anthony Carter has strong family ties with farming and from this came to realise the importance of maintaining our natural environment for future generations. After 20 years in the City, in marketing and fund management, he created a number of companies in emerging technologies, telecommunications and waste recycling. He is currently founder and Chairman of PYReco Ltd the tyre recycling company. He is also assisting in the development of a business Eco-Park in the North East of England. He has longstanding interests in sustainable development and conservation issues.
email: anthonycarter@oxindex.com


Dugal Muller - CEO: Following a career in the Royal Navy, Dugal initially worked in the corporate sector, specializing in communications and marketing. He has extensive experience of advising NGOs, corporations and government agencies on partnerships and approaches to corporate responsibility and sustainable development issues. Over the last 12 years he has spent considerable time in Southeast Asia, establishing and overseeing the development and implementation of a number of major conservation programmes involving governments, multilateral funding agencies, trans-national corporations, NGOs and private donors. He is a founding Trustee of elephantfamily, the Asian elephant conservation charity, in which capacity he conceived and developed the idea of auditing as a tool to help foster a climate of greater transparency and accountability in Asian elephant conservation and in the wider conservation arena.
email: dugalmuller@oxindex.com


Niall Marriott - Director: is a specialist in sustainable development and corporate responsibility. He has 20 years experience working with companies, NGOs and government. A trained ecologist, he has extensive experience of working in Africa, South East Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe, in addition to the UK. His expertise covers the development of practical models for sustainable development, dealing with governments, business, international aid agencies and environmental organisations. In 1987, Niall co-founded the Living Earth Foundation, an international charity specializing in environmental education and community development. During this time he developed extensive experience of putting sustainable development into practice through collaborative efforts between business, government and civil society sectors. Since 1996, Niall has been providing international consultancy to governmental, commercial and environmental organizations on issues of sustainable development. He has worked with a number of major multinational companies, including British Petroleum, Unilever, BAT, BG Group, Boots the Chemists, and Rio Tinto, as well as governments and NGOs, like the World Bank, the Indonesian Department of Mines and Energy, the UK Department of Environment, Food and Regional Affairs, Fauna & Flora International, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the World Conservation Union.

email: niallmarriott@oxindex.com



Dr Tim Reed - Director: After moving from Cambridge to Oxford to do a D.Phil in zoology and applied conservation theory Tim has spent the last 25 years working in the forefront of biodiversity and its practical applications, both in Government and the NGO and private sectors. He continues to publish with the leaders in academic biodiversity theory at the same time as working with clients such as the World Bank Group, national government Agencies, the European Commission and a range of multinationals. As a former chief adviser on ornithology to the UK Government, and head of the environmental audit function in a Government conservation agency, he is well versed in the needs and perspectives of Government at national and international levels. He has worked extensively in Europe, the Americas, Africa and S Asia on business and conservation issues, as well as recommendations for international conservation designations. The author of a standard practical guide on conservation management planning and monitoring, he has also edited a range of books on monitoring and policy issues, as well as a guide for biodiversity and the business sector for the International Finance Corporation. Since 1998 he has provided international consultancy to a range of organisations including British Petroleum, Rio Tinto, BG Group,Scottish Natural Heritage, Countryside Council for Wales, IFC, European Commission, BAT, DEFRA , FFI and IUCN and many within the Energy sector.
email: timreed@oxindex.com




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