Sarah Mukherjee and Mark Suthern have been reappointed to the Board of the Environment Agency.
The Board provides strategic, corporate leadership to the Environment Agency. Both Mukherjee and Suthern have been reappointed for a second term of twelve months. The Board for the Environment Agency currently comprises a Chair and eight members.
The Environment Agency is a Non-Departmental Public Body set up under the Environment Act 1995 and tasked with environmental protection and enhancement in England.
It has major responsibilities in flood management, water resources and quality, climate change, land quality, chemicals, pollution prevention and control, waste, conservation and biodiversity, fisheries conservation, air quality and navigation.
Sarah Mukherjee MBE is the Chief Executive of ISEP (Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals) She was also the BBC’s Environment Correspondent for many years.
Since leaving the BBC, she has been a panel member for the National Parks Review and sat on the National Food Strategy Advisory Panel. She has previously held Non-Executive Director roles at the Woodland Trust, Harper Adams University and the Oxford Farming Conference.
Mark Suthern is Chair of the Flood and Coastal Risk Management Committee and a member of the Audit and Risk Assurance and Environment and Business Committees.
Suthern was also formerly the Managing Director and National Head of Agriculture and Landed Estates at Barclays UK Plc. While there, he was focused on farming, agri-tech, sustainability, energy and the environment.
