Keith Tyrell, Director
Direct tel: +44 (0)20 7065 0910

Keith started at PAN UK as Director in May 2010. Keith has over 20 years' environmental experience. Prior to joining PAN UK he was the Director of Programmes and Research at the Koru Foundation – a charity that supports community scale renewable energy projects in the developing world. He also spent eight years working on UK and EU environmental policy at the ENDS Report where his last role was Climate and Energy Editor. He has extensive experience of working with grassroots organisations and ran the European arm of a three-year international research and advocacy project for WWF. He holds a Doctorate in Development Studies, and MA in Environment Development and Policy - both of which involved research into pesticide use.

Dr Roslyn McKendry, Editor, Pesticides News
Direct tel: +44 (0)20 7065 0912
Roslyn did a PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London and subsequently carried out medical research at the University of California. In the late ‘90s she worked at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems in Santa Cruz, California, completing an organic farming apprenticeship and then carrying out research into nutrient management on organic farms. She joined PAN in June 2002. Her main responsibility is editing PAN UK's journal, Pesticides News.

Nick Mole, UK and Europe Coordinator
Direct tel: +44 (0)20 7065 0918
Nick joined PAN UK in March 2007 as the UK and European Programme Coordinator. At university Nick studied environmental science focussing on hydrology, water quality and environmental hazards. Prior to joining PAN UK Nick spent six years working for the Environmental Investigation Agency as a campaigner, working on a diverse range of issues relating to investigating and exposing the illegal trade in endangered species.

Eliza Anyangwe, International Project Officer (Cotton)
Direct tel: +44 (0)20 7065 0915
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Eliza joined in PAN UK in January 2010. She brings to PAN a breadth of awareness raising experience, including starting a grassroots social enterprise, PostPlastic, which promoted sustainability in fashion and was supported by UnLtd and the University of Liverpool where she gained a BA in Business and French and an MSC in Management. Moving to London, Eliza worked for the NGO Action Against Hunger UK before returning to university to read an MA in International Development Management.

She is also a freelance writer for the Guardian Katine project.

Phil Monday, Africa Liaison Project Officer
Direct tel: +44 (0)20 7065 0919

Phil joined Pesticide Action Network UK in January 2010 to work as Project Officer for African Liaison; Phil is responsible for work with the African Stockpiles Project as well as the Organic Cotton project work in Benin.

For the last two years Phil was working in South Africa for Organic Exchange helping establish organic cotton farming in partnership with Cotton SA, the Agricultural Research Council and Woolworths South Africa, this was part of a project funded by the Com Mark trust.

Phil is originally from the Northwest of England and studied Agriculture at York where he studied farm management and did a dissertation on Organic farming back in the mid 80’s. He then worked on a variety of different farms helping run a farm contracting business as well as work with pedigree beef and dairy cattle. He was also involved in the glasshouse industry where he worked in plant health and helped manage an ornamental plant business

Stephanie Williamson, Chief Scientist
Direct tel: +44 (0)20 7065 0916

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Stephanie trained as an ecologist and entomologist and has worked in environmental and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) training and educational activities, in the UK and abroad, since 1985. She holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the Centre for Environment & Society, University of Essex. She has worked in over 17 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia, with four years spent in Nicaragua (where she also learnt how to pick coffee!). She served on PAN UK's Board of Directors for two years whilst working at CABI Bioscience UK Centre, before joining PAN UK as a staff member in 2000. Her main area of work at PAN UK is on pesticide problems, IPM and alternatives, with an emphasis on Africa. She is involved with pesticide policies for supply chain initiatives including Unilever’s Sustainable Agriculture Advisory Board and the 4C Coffee Association Council. She also serves as a Board Member for PAN Europe and represents them on the advisory board of the European ENDURE research network for diversifying crop protection.

Ruth Beckmann, Project Information Officer
Direct Tel: +44 (0) 20 7065 0914
Ruth Beckmann graduated in Biology from Bristol University in 1992. Most of her work since then has been in the field of learning disabilities, and most recently she was Information Officer for a leading learning disability charity for over 5 years. In joining PAN UK in 2007, she returns to an earlier interest in the environment. As Project Information Officer, Ruth deals with public enquiries and is responsible for the Pesticide Exposure (PEX) project which provides information for people affected by, or concerned about, pesticide exposure, and collects case studies which inform PAN UK’s policy work.