Environment Agency Board appointments announced

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Elizabeth Truss MP, has announced the new appointments to the Environment Agency (EA) Board.

Existing member Emma Howard Boyd, who Chairs the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee and sits on the Pensions and Flood and Coastal Regional Management Committees, has been appointed to the position of Deputy Chair for the next four years.

Truss has also re-appointed: John Varley, a member of the Environment and Business Committee, and Pensions Committee; Karen Burrows, a member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, Remuneration Committee, and the Environment and Business Committee; and Peter Ainsworth, a member of the Flood and Coastal Regional Management and the Environment and Business Committees, to the board.

Varley has been re-appointed to 30 September 2019 whereas Burrows and Ainsworth have both been re-appointed to 31 August 2018.

The board members will provide non-executive leadership challenge and support to the executive, which has major responsibilities in regulating the waste, water, chemical, and fish industries, through regular board meetings, committees and groups.

The board meets four times a year and delegates day-today management to the Chief Executive and staff.

The Environment Agency Board now comprises: