Ric_Eales

Ric Eales is the founder and Managing Director of CEP. He has more than 20 years' experience of environmental, sustainability and planning consultancy. An environmental scientist by training, Ric worked for two well established environmental consultancies in the early 1990s before becoming an independent consultant and establishing CEP in 1995. His particular areas of interest lie in environmental and sustainability assessment and other decision support tools, environmental and spatial planning policy and legislation and the broader consideration of sustainability issues within UK and EU legislation, policy and practice. He has managed numerous studies for Defra, the Environment Agency for England and Wales and the European Environment Agency (EEA), for example. He is an experienced trainer and has worked with Imperial College London to deliver several of their short course programmes over many years, for example in Strategic Environmental Assessment and climate change adaptation, as well as providing in-house training to various organisations in the UK and overseas.