People & Planet Staff Team
Staff Team
People & Planet has around a dozen part time staff, here we are in random order.
Annie Pickering
Annie is one of our Campaigns & Movement Building Co-ordinators and works tirelessly with our student and wider network on our Sweatshop Free campaign calling for better working conditions in factories that make computers sold in Europe and elsewhere, as well as supporting the student network in other campaigns and activities to be strong and change-making.
Hannah Murray
Hannah is our Co-Director of Operations and looks after the HR of the organisation, recruits amazing staff, oversees the smooth implementation of our unique flat management structure and helps with finances, office systems and generally oiling the cogs. Outside of work she worships techno and is involved in various activism including anti-fracking struggles.
Chris Saltmarsh
Chris is one of our Campaigns & Movement Building Co-ordinators supporting our student network in the Fossil Free campaign to run radical campaigns for their university to divest from the fossil fuel industry; for the positive reinvestment of endowments into a just transition to renewables; and for Barclays bank to stop financing fossil fuel projects.
Hannah Smith
Andrew Taylor
Andrew is our Co-Director of Campaigns and Communications and empowers students to take on the fossil fuel industry on their campuses through the Fossil Free campaign. He also uses his dyslexic word smithing to deliver communications across the org that amplify student and frontline voices.
Harpreet Paul
Harpreet is our Co-Director of Campaigns & Movement Building and works diligently on our Sweatshop Free Campaign with Chris as well as generally supporting the network to be strong and radical including organising inspiring events throughout the UK.
Chris Jarvis
Chris is one of our Campaigns & Movement Building Co-ordinators and works tirelessly with our network both on our Sweatshop Free campaign calling for better conditions in factories that make computers sold in Europe and elsewhere, as well as generally supporting the network to be strong and radical.
Paul Vanags
Paul is Co-Director with responsibility for Fundraising. He did his first ever fundraising as a student for People & Planet (then called 'Third World First') in 1988. After a career in commercial marketing followed by nearly a decade working at Oxfam he has come back to help us to lead our Fundraising strategy and planning. Outside of work he enjoys writing and playing music, Test Match Special and haphazard DIY projects.
Naia Bazin Lopez
Naia is our Co-Director of Movement Building and works alongside Jubilee Debt Campaign on the Economic Justice Project, as well as generally supporting the network to be strong and radical including organising inspiring events throughout the UK.
David Calver
David is our Co-Director of Finance and deals with all things financial to keep the good ship People & Planet not only afloat but to also support our Board of Trustees, the majority of whom are students and an important part of our radical governance.
Neelam Rai
Neelam is one of our Campaigns & Movement Building Co-ordinators and works super hard engaging students on our new Undoing Borders campaign which alongside our network is fighting for the full political, social and economic rights of all migrants, and for a borderless world.
Rich Lott
Rich looks after our computery things including our various websites and databases that enable the core work of People & Planet. He's also responsible for our commitment to open standards and to using open source software - both essential to protecting and improving humankind's ability and liberty to communicate.