Peter T Jones OBE

Peter T Jones OBE, Until May 2008 a Director of Biffa Waste Services Limited with specific responsibilities in external affairs and strategy development, he now operates as a freelance Advisor in matters strategic relating to the waste, carbon and materials efficiency agenda and to the City of London. He is a member of the Chartered Institutes of Marketing, Transport, and Wastes Management, qualified as an Industrial Economist and received an Honorary Degree from the University of Southampton as a Doctor of the University for work associated with Environmental technologies. Peter retired as  Chair of the DEFRA/DTI Resource Efficiency KTN in Summer 2009, but continues as a Board member of the reformed Resource Efficiency KTN.  Since 2003 he has been a member of the DEFRA New Technologies Demonstrator Programme, its Data Advisory Panel, and the Sustainable Consumption and Production Taskforce (for which he Chaired a subcommittee looking at the issues around distributed energy systems in the UK which reported in 2008). Peter has given evidence to a range of Parliamentary Select Committees on waste, sustainability, resource efficiency. He is on the waste and Resources Advisory Panel of Climate Change Capital – a Venture Capital fund with over £1 billion of funding. Peter is a Trustee of Waste Watch, an Ambassador for  both Global Action Plan and Fare Share, as well as being on the Advisory Committee of the Resource Recovery Forum, and a member of the WWF-UK Council of Ambassadors.