Joanna Yarrow - TV presenter, author and green consultant - Joanna is a regular face on ITV's This Morning, GMTV, Tonight with Trevor McDonald and BBC3.

Educated at Oxford University Joanna started her career with Friends of the Earth Europe before founding her own consultants Beyond Green in 2002.

Isabel Dedring - London mayor Boris Johnson's voice for a 'cleaner and greener' capital Harvard educated Isabel is also a qualified lawyer in her native United States.

Isabel was director of the Policy Unit for Transport for London for four years, before Boris recruited her to his team in 2008.

Fluent in German, Russian and French Isabel has also worked in the private sector with stints at consultants McKinsey and Ernst and Young in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Dr Peter Bonfield joined BRE in 1992 as a senior scientific officer progressing to director of the timber division and then managing director of BRE's construction division. He was appointed chief executive of BRE in 2007.

Since 2006 he has been on part-time secondment to the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) where he has helped create the sustainable development strategy for London 2012.

Adrian Wilkes - founder director of The Environmental Industries Commission, Adrian has been a high profile environmental voice since the early 1990s.

Educated at Cambridge, and a qualified solicitor, Adrian writes regularly on environmental issues and edits EC Environmental Policy Monitor.

Greg Archer - A new category and a new judge for 2010. A former associate director of Atkins Environment, Greg led on projects covering climate change, air pollution, environmental risk assessment and sustainable development.

Currently director of the Low carbon Vehicle Partnership since 2004 Greg, who taught chemistry in rural Zimbabwe for two years, has worked tirelessly in support of the Government's Climate Change Strategy by delivering greenhouse gas reductions from the transport sector.

Liz Parkes - head of waste and resource management at the Environment Agency - Liz has been a high profile voice in the agency's crackdown against polluters.

Overseeing everything from stopping asbestos laden ships leaving the UK to be scrapped in the third world - to promoting recycling in inner cities Liz has become a leading voice in the world of waste management.

Tom Stephenson - academic and prolific author - Tom is arguably the UK's leading voice on water and waste water treatment.

Educated at York University Tom joined Cranfield University in 1990 where he is now head of applied sciences. He's also a successful businessman as managing director of the university's manufacturing consultancy CIM Ltd.

Oliver Heath - TV presenter, eco-designer, entrepreneur and trained architect, Oliver brings a wealth of experience to the judging panel.

Educated at Oxford Brookes University, Oliver first came to the public's when he won the BBC's Homefront's Young Designer of the Year competition in 1998.

Since then he's been a regular face on TV presenting shows including Changing Rooms and has campaigned for more Government backing for renewable energy supplies.

Ed Gillespie - is director of sustainable communication consultants Futerra - a business he co-founded to show, amongst other things that, environmentalism did not mean 'sandals and brown rice'.

Ed has Masters degrees in both marine conservation and sustainable development and speaks at various conferences on environmental issues, while also regularly writing for the Guardian.

He also travelled around the world without using any aircraft for his series the Slow Traveller.


Previous Judges


Jonathon Porritt - 2008's Edie Green Personality of the Year - Jonathon is a leading voice and campaigner for the environment.

Educated at Eton and Oxford University, Jonathon turned his back on a career in law to become first an English teacher, and then a green campaigner first coming to prominence as a vocal member of the Ecology Party which became the Green Party.

Leonie Greene - green campaigner and advisor - Leonie has become a strong voice for renewable and sustainable energy.

The head of external affairs for the Renewable Energy Association Leonie was formally a political adviser at Greenpeace implementing its Decentralised Energy campaign. She also worked for the deputy mayor of London on sustainable development and the conception of the London Climate Change Agency.

Dr Liz Goodwin - currently the chief executive of the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Liz has worked with businesses and politicians to drive home the recycling message.

Liz has been an instrumental figure at WRAP, since she joined in 2001, through her restructuring of the organisation's activities to meet the ever-changing needs of the sectors it serves.

Sir John Harman - a dynamic figure with the Environment Agency an organisation he served, including as chairman from 2000 to 2008, since it was created in 1996.

Sir John was educated at Manchester University and Huddersfield College of Education and worked as a teacher and lecturer until 1997.

He was knighted in 1997 and continues to work in the environmental field as the chairman of green lobbying collective the Aldersgate group.