Our Board of Trustees
David Flint
David is a Responsible Investment Reporting Analyst for a financial organisation/pension provider in Edinburgh, focused on climate. In his current role, he monitors the carbon footprint of companies, and their alignment to the Paris Agreement – which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. He has over 30-years of experience in financial services, focused on investment performance, risk and client management. David holds the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Climate Solutions Professional qualification. Although his background is financial services, he has for a long time had an interest and concern for the link between the food supply chain and the access to nutritious food to support good health. He is a keen gardener.
Isabel Fletcher
Isabel is a social scientist interested in understanding our ideas about a good diet and how they change. She works at the University of Edinburgh on two projects about the future of UK livestock and about the implementation of Scotland’s Good Food Nation Act. Before returning to higher education she ran a café and outside catering business, and in her spare time she cooks and battles pigeons, slugs and the weather to try and grow vegetables on her allotment.
Nick Underdown
Nick Underdown is Scotland Director at WildFish, where he works to improve the management of Scotland’s freshwater and marine environments through campaigning, policy development and community engagement. His career to date has spanned environmental advocacy, journalism and coalition-building, including work as a local newspaper reporter covering rural and coastal communities, with Scottish Environment LINK, and nine years with the marine conservation charity Open Seas.
Throughout his career, Nick has been driven by a belief that communities should have a voice and powers to influence decisions affecting the places they live, the food they eat and the natural resources on which they depend. He has helped bring together local communities, researchers, charities, policymakers and businesses to campaign for better stewardship of Scotland’s seas and more sustainable seafood.
Nick believes Scotland’s seas are one of our country’s greatest, but mismanaged, natural assets, and that recovering their ecological health is fundamental to the future well-being and prosperity of coastal communities, resilient food systems and our nation as a whole.
Pete Ritchie
Pete is Executive Director of Nourish Scotland, which he co-founded. He is a prominent thinker on food issues in Scotland, and a trustee of the Food Ethics Council. Pete is also a first-generation farmer and has been running Whitmuir Organics, with his wife and business partner Heather Anderson since 2004. Before entering the world of food, he was an advocate for equality and inclusion of disabled people for 25 years. He founded and directed Scottish Human Services, which he led for 10 years.
Sarah Conway
Sarah is passionate about food systems and agriculture having grown up on an Aberdeenshire sheep farm. Her degree in Zoology led her to conservation projects in China and Canada. She has worked both within the public sector and third sector; with experience in programme delivery, recruitment, event management and membership services. She currently works for a faith-based environmental charity. Happiest in wellies, you will often find her checking on the progress of her home-grown veg.