Meet our Sussex & Surrey Regional Steering Group

Anya Ledwith has over 25 years of leadership in the field of carbon and environmental management. Founder of award-winning consultancy Eshcon Ltd, Anya works with start-ups, fast growth and corporates on ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS), SECR carbon reporting, Net Zero and ESOS energy audits. She is a lead ESOS Assessor, Registered Environmental Auditor, Chartered Environmentalist and a Fellow of IEMA.

Dare Ilori knew that to be a successful sustainability professional, technical skills would not be enough. After gaining a Masters degree in Waste and Environmental Management, he acquired a Masters of Business Administration degree to open up his knowledge on how sustainability and business fits together. He attended courses to developed his social style and leadership skills as well as sustainability focused workshops including executive sustainability leadership courses in Cambridge and Harvard. He is very passionate about sustainability and does not mince words when it comes to challenging bandwagon sustainability trend that moves the issue along as opposed to addressing the issue holistically. He is a Fellow of IEMA and a chartered member of the Energy Institute UK. He is married with a son, his hobbies are vacation, movies and table tennis.

I have been a member of IEMA for a number of years and in the last year have achieved Practitioner status. Over the last 10 years I have held various environmental and sustainability roles in an organisation that is at the heart of the circular economy. One of the most successful projects I have worked on was a campaign about bees and improving biodiversity both at our company locations and within the local community. I enjoy spending time running and cycling and tending to my garden and making it more pollinator friendly.

Jenna-Marie (Jen) Smallwood has both a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a focus on Environmental Studies and Legal Studies and a LLM in Global Environment and Climate Change Law. Having lived, studied, and been actively involved in environmental advocacy work in both South Africa and the USA, she is now excited to have the opportunity to be more actively involved in the environmental advocacy work currently being done in the UK. Her experience has solidified the notion of thinking global but acting local as she believes this is the key to making the swift, sweeping, and sustainable actions needed to meet IEMA’s goal of transforming the world to sustainability.

I am a chartered town planner and a practitioner member of IEMA. I have worked in the filed of planning and environmental impact for many years but I feel I always have more to learn. Outside work I cycle, run, do pilates and play the cello.