Jossie Ellis (Chair)

Jossie is Head of Growth at Money Dashboard, an Edinburgh based Fintech where she leads product, partnership & customer strategy. She has a background in business development having started her own business & worked in consulting. She has always been interested in food and nature, and was hugely inspired by the people and communities she met whilst WWOOFing in Italy & Australia who are working to address the complex challenges we face relating to food & our environments. For the last two years she has helped organise the Power of Food Festival which celebrates community growing across Edinburgh. She encountered Nourish, when she was a participant on the Making a Living from Local Food programme, where she experienced first-hand the great work Nourish do at a grass roots level.

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.

Lindsey Goldie

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.