Policy and Technical Issues

CIWEM has a strong technical structure that ensures that the Institution is able to deliver high quality, timely output on a wide range of environmental issues. The secretariat at the London office has five staff in its Policy Department — Justin Taberham, (Director of Policy) Alastair Chisholm (Policy Officer) Harriet Greene (Policy Researcher) Joanna Cooper (Policy Support Officer) and Lauren Goozee (Policy Administrator).

The department supports the work of committees, panels, virtual panels, groups and other key CIWEM supporters. We are always keen to consider new members of panels or offers of support and advice. If you are interested, please contact Justin Taberham.

Key outputs from the Policy Department include: 

• Policy Position Statements (PPS)
• E-News
• Consultation responses
• Advocacy Plans  - New
• Parliamentary liaision - New
• Information resources and Briefing reports 
• Liaison with Government agencies, industry and other key organisations and individuals
• Books
• Development of the programme of CIWEM National Conferences
• Development of the Institution’s journals and magazine
• Administration of the online paper submission and review system for the journals
• Promotion, development and administration of CIWEM's awards
• Administration of the CIWEM copyright