People
Our multi-disciplinary team has broad experience in working with the mining industry, socio-economic and environmental regeneration, formal and public education and communication to diverse audiences. We are also able to draw on the expertise of an international network of leading thinkers and practitioners on mine closure, mining legacy and post-mining regeneration as well as the skills and knowledge of the wider Eden team.
Caroline Digby
Director
Caroline joined Eden to develop the Post-Mining Alliance in July 2004. Prior to this, she was a Programme Director for the first two years of the International Council on Mining and Metals, where she saw through the implementation of some of the key recommendations of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project. Caroline was the Research Director for the MMSD project, a two-year process of analysis and consultation seeking to understand how the mining and minerals sector could contribute to sustainable development, hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development from 2000 to 2002. An environmental economist by training, she has worked in the mining and metals sector for most of her career.
Peter Whitbread-Abrutat
Pete has worked at Eden Project since 1999. He is employed as Eden's Senior Scientist on outreach work, with a particular interest in landscape regeneration and mining issues. He developed and managed the Eden - Rio Tinto partnership for a number of years and has worked on developing the Post-Mining Alliance since its inception in 2002. Prior to working at Eden, Pete was employed at the University of Exeter’s Camborne School of Mines (CSM), investigating environmental impacts of abandoned metal mines in southern Thailand. He gained his PhD from CSM in the re-vegetation of metalliferous mine wastes.
Juliet Rose
Juliet has worked for the Eden Project since before its opening in March 2001, on a variety of projects including artificial soil manufacture for the Eden site and a Darwin Initiative project overseas. In 2005, she gained a PhD from the University of Reading in Strategic Environmental Management Planning for Degraded Land. Juliet has worked as a researcher for the Post-Mining Alliance and currently manages the Eden Project's Carnegie Trust UK partnership developing a variety of projects looking at rural community development, regeneration and engagement for community-led planning.
Georgina Pearman
George has worked at the Eden Project since July 2003. She is involved in a number of Post-Mining Alliance projects including, most recently, the writing of our book 101 Things to do with a Hole in the ground. George also manages the long-standing Eden Project-Rio Tinto partnership that seeks to jointly develop initiatives which drive better performance by the mining industry, and leads a cutting-edge project that looks at the feasibility of responsibly sourcing metals and minerals used in construction.
Ian Martin
Ian spent 23 years working with plants and people in sub-humid to arid region southern hemisphere countries in development projects before joining the Eden “Green Team” in 1996.
He retains a professional involvement with those countries and has extended his field experience through visits to semi-arid and arid regions of North America, North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
His work in Africa has ranged from developing research sites for both exotic and indigenous vegetables and medicinal plants, fruit and commercial tree species - to carrying this work over into village and community development schemes. In Latin America his work focused on fruit research and the commercial development of essential oil crops. Recently, Ian has represented the Post-Mining Alliance in a project looking at the regeneration of post-diamond mining landscapes and communities with De Beers and Conservation International, in South Africa's Namaqualand.