Liz Zeidler and Philippa Bayley have been elected as chair of Bristol Green Capital Partnership for this year in a job share.
Philippa is manager of the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute, which brings together all the university’s work on living with environmental uncertainty, while Liz is a founding director of Bristol’s Happy City Initiative.
Nina Skubala, lead environmental adviser at Business West, was elected vice-chair in the ballot of Green Capital Partnership members.
The roles take on a new importance as Bristol prepares to become European Green Capital 2015.