William_Sheate

Bill is a Technical Director of CEP, and also a part-time Reader in Environmental Assessment at Imperial College London in the Centre for Environmental Policy. Originally an ecologist, Bill has worked, lectured and published widely on environmental assessment and policy for some 25 years. He has worked as a practicing ecologist, in consultancy, academia and in the voluntary sector. Most of his professional career has been spent working in interdisciplinarity. His experience lies in the development and application of environmental policy and legislation (especially EIA/SEA/SA) in the European Union, assessment procedures, methodologies, and public and NGO participation. He has been an expert advisor to the EC, the European Environment Agency, various governments, CPRE, the National Trust and many others. Bill has also been involved in various committees of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). Bill has published extensively in the assessment and environmental policy field, and is the editor of Tools, Techniques and Approaches to Sustainability: Collected Writings in Environmental Assessment Policy and Management published by World Scientific. He is also the founding Editor (1999-2009) of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (ICP/WSPC), now in its 11th year. He has many years experience of teaching and training at advanced levels. He is also a member of the Academic Panel of Francis Taylor Building barristers' chambers and an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester. Bill was recently awarded a PhD based upon published work - Accountability in Environmental Assessment Law, Policy and Practice: Changing Paradigms, Changing Purposes in the European Union 1985-2010, Staffordshire University, 2011.