JUDGING

The Rushlight Awards are judged by leading experts in their chosen fields who are entirely independent of sponsors, headline partners and Eventure Media.  They have been invited to join the panels due to their impartiality, vast experience and knowledge.  The judges for the 2009 Rushlight Awards were as follows: 

Greg Archer - MD of Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, Director of Cenex and on the Board of the Renewable Fuels agency

Alison Bartle - Editor International Journal on Hydropower & Dams

Stephen Bass - Leader Sustainable Consumption and Production Programme, DEFRA

Dr Margaret Bates - Manager SITA Centre for Sustainable Wastes Management, University of Northampton

Tim Boldero - former Chair of the Society for the Environment, Vice President Environment of IWO

David Brown - Chief Executive The Institution of Chemical Engineers

Jon Busby - Team Leader Clean Coal & Renewables, British Geological Survey

Prof Chris Coggins - Visiting Prof Univ of Southampton School of Civil Engineering & Environment, Research Managing Agent for the DEFRA Waste Research Programme, EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment (Waste) Programme

Dave Curtis - Director, Source Testing Association

Duncan Eggar - Bioenergy Champion, BBSRC

Prof Paul Ekins - Professor of Energy and Environment Policy UCL Energy Institute, University College London, former Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, co-founder of Forum for the Future

Prof David Elliott - Prof of Technology Policy and co-Director of the Energy & Environment Research Unit, The Open University

Dr Tim Evans - Independent Consultant, Technical Secretary Foundation for Water Research, Chairman of the Wastewater Management Panel CIWEM

Prof Bernard Fisher - Environmental Policy Centre for Risk and Forecasting Environment Agency, Chair of the Institute of Air Quality Management, Council Member of the Institution of Environmental Sciences

Ray Georgeson - Associate Director Corporate Culture, former Policy Director WRAP

Prof Maggie Gill - Chief Scientific Adviser to SEERAD, Prof of Integrated Land Use University of Aberdeen

Jason Green - Head of Energy Research, EPSRC 

Malcolm Grimston - Associate Fellow Chatham House and Senior Research Fellow Energy Policy and Management Group, Imperial College

James Grugeon - Chief Executive Environment Protection UK

Robert Gunn - Head of National Measurement System, DIUS

Jim Halliday - Head of Energy Research Unit at (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Prof Stuart Haszeldine - Prof of Sedimentary Geology, Edinburgh University

Alex Hook - Investment Director, NESTA

Gordon Innes - Head Low Carbon Business Team, BIS

Keith James - WRAP Environmental Policy Manager

Paul Jefferiss - Head of Policy BP, non-exec Renewable Fuels Agency, non-exec Carbon Trust, member DECC's Renewable Advisory Board and Ofgem's Environmental Advisory Group 

David Lloyd Owen - MD Envisager Ltd, author of 5 books on water markets and management and adviser to a number of investment funds, eg 3i plc and Pictet

John Loughhead - Director UKERC, Deputy President of the IET, Assessor for the BERR Technology Programme

Prof Gordon MacKerron - Director Univ of Sussex Energy Group, Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management and former Chair of the Energy Panel DTI/OST Technology Foresight Programme

Steve Malkin - CEO Planet Positive

Laszlo Mathe - Bioenergy Officer, WWF International

Graham Meeks - CEO Combined Heat and Power Association

Chris Murphy - Deputy Chief Executive CIWM

Prof John Oakey - Head of Energy Technology Centre Cranfield University

Prof John Patrick - Senior Research Fellow University of Nottingham, Principal Editor Fuel

Dave Raval - Head of the Carbon Trust Incubation Scheme

Prof Dermot Roddy - Director of the SWAN Institute, Newcastle University

Phil Sheppard - Head of Clean Energy, PERA

John Stewart - Chairman UK Noise Association

Prof David Williams - Chief Executive British Hydropower Association, Visiting Prof Royal Academy of Engineering

Fraser Winterbottom - COO Energy Saving Trust

Judging rules:

  1. The judges' decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into concerning the judging process or the decisions made.
  2. The judges can move an entry to a different category if it is felt that it is more appropiate in the other category.
  3. The judges can choose not to give an award if the entries are not deemed to be of a suitable standard.
  4. Judges have the opportunity to give special commendations to entries of particular merit. 
  5. No lobbying of the judges will be allowed.