PIRC’s trustees were instrumental in the creation of the charity 35 years ago, and since then have supported the organisation and offered their insights – carefully guiding the evolution of PIRC’s work into new project areas, and ensuring its quality and integrity. Over the last two years, the trustees have ably assisted our shift towards an examination of the Environment, Energy and Economics.
PIRC is indebted to the trustees for their contribution over the past four decades – and our future work will continue to benefit immensely from their support and collective wisdom.
Christopher Zealley
Christopher Zealley has been Chairman of PIRC since its early days in the 1970s. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Management of the Consumers Association, publishers of ‘Which? Magazine’. His career has been as a non-executive director in a number of companies and as a trustee of various other charitable trusts, including Dartington Hall, NACRO and the Charities Aid Foundation.
Charles Medawar
Charles Medawar founded PIRC after working with Ralph Nader in Washington DC. He specialises in medicine policy and drug safety issues, and on matters of corporate, governmental and professional accountability. He is Director of Social Audit Ltd – www.socialaudit.org.uk.
Maurice Frankel OBE
Maurice Frankel is the Director of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, and a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Group on Implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.
Tim Helweg-Larsen
Tim is CEO of Energy Bank, a social enterprise pursuing a Europe-wide market in energy-bonds, backed by renewable assets and owned by the people and businesses that use them. Tim was director of PIRC from 2007-2010 and has an extensive history of climate change research and advocacy.
Janet Alty
Janet is a longstanding Green Party member, activist and ‘troublemaker’. She has campaigned tirelessly on green issues for over forty years.
Christian Hunt
Christian worked at PIRC as a research and communications officer and helped shift the organisation’s remit to energy and environment. He left to join the digital communications department at Greenpeace UK, working on the Airplot and Nestle campaigns, before running the organisation’s high-profile online campaign against BP.