Martin Horwood
Cabinet Member for Nature, Climate & Waste Reduction at Gloucestershire County Council @Gloucestershire County Council
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WORK HISTORY
Cabinet Member for Nature, Climate & Waste Reduction at Gloucestershire County Council @Gloucestershire County Council
Gloucestershire, GB
Cabinet lead for nature, climate and waste reduction in Gloucestershire\'s new Liberal Democrat administration. Looking to make our county even cleaner and greener, help nature recovery, tackle greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for climate change and tackle waste through reduction, re-use and recycling.
EDUCATION
University of Oxford
BA Hons, Modern History
SKILLS
ABOUT MARTIN HORWOOD
Gloucestershire councillor & county cabinet lead for nature, climate and waste reduction since May 2025; Cheltenham councillor since 2018 and cabinet member 2021-25; former MP for Cheltenham & former MEP for South West England & Gibraltar. President of the Green Liberal Democrats. Current member of the Lib Dems\' national Federal Policy Committee. Senior management team experience at Development Initiatives (as Interim Director of Engagement & Impact), the Alzheimer\'s Society (Director of Fundraising) and Target Direct (now Signal, as Head of Consultancy, working with a range of national charity clients). Trustee board experience at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 2016-25 and several other charities before this. Patron of homelessness charity Cheltenham Open Door and of Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. A record of enthusiastic, confident leadership, policymaking and team working at trustee and senior management level in politics and the third sector, managing large budgets and delivering significant fundraising income growth, with strategic and business planning experience in the public, private and third sectors and top level communications skills – face to face, at events, online, and on TV and radio; confident building of relationships with professional teams, volunteers, trustees, donors, ministers, policymakers and business leaders.
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