Defra appoints new chair for Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Defra has appointed Professor Colin Galbraith as chair of the (JNCC).

The three-year appointment will run from 25 January 2021. Galbraith (pictured) is the director of his own environmental consultancy and has been deputy chairman of the JNCC since 2017 and an independent member of the committee since 2014.

Meanwhile ,Professor Melanie Austen, Charles Banner QC and Professor Marian Scott OBE have all been reappointed as independent members of the JNCC for second terms of two years and ten months.