Tim is currently the Chief Executive of the arc21 local authority partnership in Northern Ireland, a role he has held since 2019.

Prior to that, he headed up waste management at Belfast City Council for over two decades. Tim is currently on the Board of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful and CIWM as a Trustee. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow with Queen’s University Belfast looking at the Circular Economy, a member of the DEFRA Advisory Committee on Packaging (UK) and sits on the Department for Economy Circular Economy Coalition (NI).

He has several professional and academic qualifications and regularly returns home from walks with more than a handful of rubbish.  

You can read Tim's Presidential report here.  

David is MD and founder of SOENECS, a research and innovation practice he established in 2014. SOENECS provide strategic research, advice, training, solutions, chairing and facilitation on the topics of circular economy, environmental auditing, waste & resource management. 

In 2021, David was appointed as Professor of Circular Economy at the University of Brighton to lecture and work with academics to incorporate circular economy into the curriculum.

In 2022, David became one of four founding Partners and the Urban Miner at etsaW Ventures, a venture studio with proven expertise, world-spanning networks and focused business resource turning circular economy innovation into game changing impact. The business model is to seek, activate and scale the best ideas that ignite circularity. 

In 2020, David Co-founded Tech-Takeback, a not-for-profit company that collects end of life electricals from householders in Brighton & Hove using an on-demand face-to face collection; called “RevaluElectricals”, powered by The ZeroNet. Tech-Takeback won the 2021 Business Green Leaders award for Circular Economy and has been shortlisted for 4 National Recycling Awards.

David is in addition non-executive Chair of the CIWM Enterprises Board, NED of Biohm, Trustee and Director of Freegle, a member of the Exeter University CE Hub Executive Management Group (EMG), Government Adviser to IUK, DEFRA and MHCLG and advisor and past chair for the Local Authority National Waste Network Chairs (WNC).

Vicki is a Trustee and Fellow of CIWM, having first joined the Board in 2019. With over 35 years’ experience in sales, marketing and business development, Vicki spent nearly 20 years at the forefront of wood recycling in the UK, holding senior positions at Hadfield Wood Recyclers and, more latterly, Enva. She is also a Board member and Technical Lead at the Wood Recyclers Association (WRA).