About PEP

Oliver is a Fellow of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the Chartered Insurance Institute. He has worked for over 25 years in the London insurance market and is the Senior Pricing Actuary for a division of a global reinsurance company. For over a decade he has had a strong interest in climate change, economics and the limits to growth and has spoken at numerous venues on these subjects. From 2013 to 2015 he was the inaugural chair of the IFoA’s Resource and Environment Board, one of the IFoA’s seven practice area boards. He currently serves on the IFoA’s Research and Thought Leadership Board which oversees their research programme. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP).

Nicolette is a policy, business strategy and sustainable development professional delivering lasting stakeholder value in diverse governmental, business, financial services and not-for-profit environments. Her achievements range from catalysing the declaration and delivery of a local authority’s climate emergency pledge to leading an influential study of the potential for a European currency. Having spent the first part of her 25 year career discovering the inadequacy of her neoclassical dominated economics education, and the middle part searching for better ways of addressing the complexity, unpredictability and connectedness of 21st century social, environmental and economic challenges, Nicolette has enthused and supported Promoting Economic Pluralism from its inception.

Natasha is a social scientist working for ADAS (the UK’s largest independent agricultural research consultancy). She has a PhD in behavioural economics for sustainable food consumption. She is interested in behaviour and therefore believe economics is not always based on rational decisions. She is keen to be part of this organisation in order to spread awareness about alternative economics.

Henry is an ecological economist and policy analyst with 30 years experience. He has particular expertise in agricultural and environmental policy and regulation as well as green finance, local currencies and environmental markets. He is a director of NEKS, the founder & CEO of PEP, editor of The Mint.

He has also been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus, is a Fellow of the RSA and a qualified chartered accountant.

Trevor has, for thirty years, reported and commented on regulation, markets and technology in a range of industries. Much of his career focus has been on the energy sector where he founded Utility Week, provided commentary through broadcast media and led communications at the energy regulator, Ofgem.

He has an extraordinary combination of experiences that inform his editorial approach. Since acquiring a doctorate in medical science and subsequent research positions including Guy and St Thomas’ Medical School, he has been a published professional musician and an exhibiting artist and illustrator before and while forging a reputation as a writer, editor and a communicator in the broadest sense.

He has written extensively on medicine (as editor of the Medical Research Council award-winning MRC News). As a freelance writer and consultant he advises global players in engineering, finance, IT and petrochemicals on communications and has edited the International Desalination Association’s quarterly publication and website.

He is managing editor and a founding director of The Water Report which has become the established leader in reporting and analysis on regulation and policy in the UK water sector.

Starting at local newspaper in print design (also completing the NCTJ journalism course) Steve is a freelance web designer and developer with ten years experience both in-house and agency side. Steve has designed and built web and digital projects for clients ranging from start-ups to internationally known brands like Dell, Regus and Pandora.

Steve has built everything from simple blogs to large ecommerce sites and specialises in interactive content and web apps.​

Outside of work Steve designs and sells t-shirts, reads anything connected with politics and economics and avoids driving whenever possible.

Alex started off graduating as a designer, and worked for a small company where he also gained experience in digital communications. During this time, he began to question whether the design industry could truly be sustainable, and from there whether our current economic system could ever be. Hoping to find out, he quit and did a postgraduate degree in Environment and Development. Now with an interest in the environment and economics, he enjoys using his mixed background as a comms assistant for The Mint, and works in the public sector as part of the UK’s (admittedly inconsistent) efforts to go net zero.

Daphne Davies has worked as a journalist and development consultant for 30 years, in the not-for profit, governmental, and think-tank fields. She started work as a printer in the UK, USA and Ecuador. When she returned to the UK, she was employed as a press officer for various organisations, including Amnesty International, and the Labour Research Department.

In the 1990s, she moved to Brussels to work for the international trade union movement, followed by work with WWF, the United Nations, the European Commission (mainly in social and economic policy) and a think tank: the European Policy Centre.

Since returning to the UK in 2010 she has worked with the Club of Rome, the European Commission, and as a freelance journalist, and set up a project to publicise the situation of civil society in Least Developed Countries.

She graduated in Philosophy and Theology (!) from Nottingham University, received an M.Litt. in Moral Philosophy from Glasgow University, and a Diploma in Social Administration from the LSE. Her current passions are climate change, sustainable development, social and economic policy and trade and development.

When not busy with these, she enjoys walking, playing music (violin and piano) and has recently started making patchworks and quilts.