Iain Dunnett

Trustee

Iain is a Sustainable Places Account Manager at the Environment Agency where he leads much of the agency’s partnership work in the areas of Local Nature Recovery, Climate Action, Green Finance, Sustainable Growth and Integrated Water Management.

Previously Iain was a Senior Investment Manager with the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, working with businesses and other organisations to achieve investments in developments. This was across a wide range of strategic economic, environmental, heritage, cultural, community investments and developments.

Iain’s sustainable and funding backgrounds enabled him to lead the production of the Green Economy Pathfinder and Manifesto on behalf of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership and the aspiration of Creating the Greenest County Partnership in Suffolk. Previously he worked as an External Funding Manager at Suffolk County Council managing European finances and other investments, and his early career was in Countryside Management.

Iain has also held many voluntary positions in organisations: currently Deputy Chair of Governors at Chantry Academy, Ipswich; Advisory Panel Member for Forestry Commission East Region and Trustee at Bawdsey Radar Museum.