The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has appointed three new non-executive board members: Julian Glover, Nick Folland and Baroness Kate Rock.
Rock and Glover began their appointments on 13 May, while Folland starts on 1 June. All terms will last for three years.
Policy advisor, Glover, is a Trustee of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and chair of its Midlands and East region. He led the independent Landscapes Review for the government into ways to make our national landscapes better for nature and better for people. He is co-chair of the Future Countryside conference.
Rock is a director of a tenant farming business, and a trustee and director of The Royal Countryside Fund. She is non-executive chair of infrastructure company Costain and senior independent director of FTSE250 geotechnical contractor, Keller Group. She is also chair of The Tenancy Working Group, commissioned by the Environment Secretary to look at the future of agricultural tenancies. The Rock Review, with recommendations to government, was published in October 2022.
Folland has extensive legal and governance experience. He is general counsel and company secretary of Marks & Spencer and has held the same role in other FTSE 100 businesses since 2001. He was formerly chief executive of the Crown Prosecution Service and Chief of Staff to the chief executive of the Co-Op Group. Folland is also a non-executive director and chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee of the Board of Defence Equipment and Support, an arms-length body of the Ministry of Defence. He is a former senior independent member and audit committee chair of the Natural Environment Research Council, and chair of the remuneration committee of Ocado Retail. He has recently concluded his role as a non-executive director on the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee of HM Prison and Probation Service.
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