Our Trustees

Jonson Cox

Jonson’s career has been largely dedicated to public service businesses and organisations with a strong environmental focus. He was a founder member of the Prince of Wales Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. He’s given much of his life to the water industry. His interests in the environment, the use of the land and social enterprise stem from growing up on the Dartington Hall estate in Devon, and from a career in environmental businesses.

Professor Joanna Price

Professor Joanna Price is the Vice Chancellor of the Royal Agricultural University. She was formerly head of the Veterinary School at the University of Bristol. Having spent most of her career in academia, her interests are in equipping the next generation to cope with uncertainly and change and in ensuring that a pathway to higher education is open to everyone, whatever their background. In her current role, her focus has turned to the challenge of ensuring sustainable land use and the rural economies and ecosystems that depend upon it.

Eleanor Beaudry

Eleanor Beaudry is a Governance Adviser at the Department for International Development, currently on assignment in Malawi. She has degrees from Oxford and SOAS and has previously gained experience in overseeing development aid projects in Pakistan and elsewhere as a consultant.

Eleanor (Mattie) Cox

Eleanor (Mattie) graduated in 2018 from the London School of Economics and now works in the civil service, currently on international trade in BEIS. She’s travelled to southern and eastern Africa many times in the last five years and has a strong interest in the continent, particularly Mozambique. As a divemaster, she’s passionate about the oceans.