Waste Reduction judges

Chair - Philip Colligan Executive Director of the Public Service Innovation Lab at Nesta.

Philip Colligan is the Executive Director of Nesta's Innovation Lab, which is working with innovators in public services, civil society and business to develop radical new responses to some of the most pressing social and economic challenges.

Philip joined Nesta in May 2010 and has built a portfolio of high impact programmes supporting innovations across public services, healthcare, neighbourhoods, digital technologies, volunteering and philanthropy, and support and finance to social ventures. He is also responsible for overseeing the development of Nesta's Innovation Skills strategy.

He regularly advises government, public service organisations and charities on innovation strategies and capabilities, both in the UK and internationally. Philip sits on a number of advisory and funding bodies, including the Board of the Centre for London at Demos and the Advisory Committee of Big Society Capital. He provides support and advice to numerous social entrepreneurs and is a non-executive director of Stepping Out, a social business supporting public services to spin out.

Before joining Nesta he worked for the London Borough of Camden and the Home Office.

As assistant director for regeneration and partnerships at Camden he led economic development, regeneration, place-shaping and the council's relationship with the third sector. Prior to this he spent two years as deputy director for housing and adult social care, responsible for investment and repairs to 33,000 council homes, including leading major housing regeneration schemes.

Philip was previously Camden's Assistant Chief Executive where he established the Camden Strategy Unit, the strategic centre of the Council responsible for strategy and planning, performance, innovation, efficiency and communications.

Before joining Camden, Philip worked at the Home Office where he held a number of senior policy roles, including on youth justice reform, religious issues and community cohesion. He was a private secretary and led the Home Office change programme.

He has a degree in law from the University of Liverpool and qualifications in management and finance.

Vicki Purewal Head of the Centre for Challenge Prizes at Nesta.

Vicki joined Nesta in 2003 and was most recently responsible for the development and launch of the Centre for Challenge Prizes.  Vicki is an expert in programme design and on challenge prizes. Since joining Nesta she has been responsible for designing and delivering several major programmes to encourage, support and reward innovation. These programmes have covered a broad range of topics including creativity in learning, community innovation, the environment and public services.

From 2007-09 she led the design and delivery of the Big Green Challenge, a £1 million prize to incentivise and support community-led innovation in response to climate change. This challenge prize was one of the first for social innovation and has received international recognition for its programme design and success.

Other programmes Vicki has worked on include the Learning programme, Innovation Challenges, Neighbourhood Challenge, Transforming Early Years and Creative Councils. Her work at Nesta has also covered cross-programme evaluation and reporting, and the set-up of new programme teams and processes.

Prior to Nesta, Vicki worked for four years in the performing arts sector as a fundraiser, manager and writer, as well as performing in and supporting dance projects in the UK and Europe. She has a first class honours degree in Dance Theatre and an MA covering aesthetics, visual design for dance, and cultural politics.

Sophie Chapman Cabinet Office

Sophie has worked at the Cabinet Office since 2007. She was one of the writers of the 2011 Giving White Paper, and following its publication set up the various spending programmes announced in the paper, including the Giving Challenge Prizes. Previous projects include work on the Olympics volunteering legacy and Baroness Neuberger's review of the role of volunteers in public services. Before joining the Cabinet Office, Sophie worked at various charities, most recently at Citizens Advice, and she remains an active volunteer with a particular interest in environmental issues.

Kevin Waudby Founder and Director of Good Innovation.
 

As Head of Innovation at Cancer Research UK Kevin established the charity's innovation program and managed it for over 5 years, leading several business development teams to deliver millions in future income. In 2011 he established a specialist consultancy called Good Innovation to help charities and other civil society organisations innovate successfully to deliver new sources of income. His clients include WWF, Barnardo's, RSPCA and UNICEF UK.

Nick Kightley  Special Advisor at WRAP.

Nick is responsible to ensure that third sector (including social enterprises and not-for-profit voluntary and community groups) organisations are considered when WRAP is planning, implementing or following up programmes of work.  Through WRAP's contract with AEA Technologies, Nick is also able to offer business support to re-use enterprises and this represents a particular opportunity for the third sector who have led in many aspects of the early development of collection, sorting, repair and re-use of products and materials.

Nick has worked at WRAP since 2005, initially as Business Projects Manager, for SMEs in the recycling sector.  Nick was responsible for the highly successful Interim Manager Scheme to provide a step change in management, marketing, finance or operational practices.  He was also responsible for the Intellectual Property Rights support to secure and exploit new business ideas and the Commercialisation Centre in partnership with Imperial Innovations in London, looking at "blue sky" investment opportunities in waste and recycling. Previously, Nick worked for Coventry & Warwickshire Co-operative Development Agency as a social enterprise advisor, before that he spent 12 years at Traidcraft Exchange in Gateshead, as Programme Manager for Asia, supporting the development of fair trade SMEs and before that he lived and worked in The Philippines for 13 years, initially as a VSO volunteer. 

Gary Harvey

A visionary leader and creator of brand image who successfully predicts future trends in product, image and youth culture. A proven track record in achieving strong aesthetic results with a meticulous eye for detail balanced against exceptional business acumen.

Gary is the former Creative Director of Levi Strauss and Dockers Europe designer for Levi's. He began designing his environmentally friendly dresses during a freelance fashion campaign. He needed something dramatic for a shoot so he took 42 pairs of Levi's 501's and made them into a dress. He has continued designing eco-fashion since, being described as a "couture-upcycler extraordinaire".

Marek Gordon Chairman and CEO of SITA Trust

Marek is currently Chairman and CEO of SITA Trust, a funding organisation that distributes landfill tax credits raised by waste and recycling company SITA UK Ltd. He is also a non-executive director of SITA UK and has most recently been responsible for the delivery of the recycling and composting contract held by the Company for all venues at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

Graham Winter Senior Advisor at Environment Agency

Graham joined the Environment Agency after graduating in Environmental Management and a brief spell with the Centre for Sustainable Energy.  He is currently leading the Environment Agency's engagement with the construction sector.

Graham was responsible for the consultation and publication of several suites of technical guidance and established the 'business and industry' section of the Environment Agency website.  He was pivotal in moving the Environment Agency away from printed copy to electronic publication as a primary publishing route - reducing costs and increasing accessibility.

He spent 4 years on a European project evaluating the regulatory and environmental benefits of certified environmental management systems and is a trained environmental auditor. Graham has been a busy communicator on waste and resource management issues for the last five years, managing correspondence, parliamentary questions, briefings and presentations for senior management, before taking on his current role.

Defra representative - to be confirmed