We introduce the members of our board, and share details on how to become a board member.
The board of Ethical Consumer is made up of:
Every two years we elect two investor-members to sit on our board. The elections are next due in 2024. Nominations open in May, voting takes place in July and results are announced at the AGM in September. If you think you may be interested please get in touch for further details.
We’ve put together a short video including interviews with current board members, to give you more of an idea about what its like to be on our board.
Daniel Welch - Investor Member Director
Dr Dan Welch is a researcher at the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. His academic research focuses on understanding processes of social change and their relation to consumption.
From 2006-2011 he was a researcher and writer with Ethical Consumer, and between 2008-2011 was co-editor of Ethical Consumer magazine. He was Associate Editor of the online social science magazine Discover Society 2018–2021, and is founding co-editor of the academic journal Consumption and Society (Bristol University Press). Dan previously worked as a copywriter specialising in sustainability communications and undertakes occasional consultancy projects relating to sustainable and ethical consumption.
Tim is a comms and digital marketing consultant. He recently co-founded Data.Content.Reach Co-operative. They partner with a range of third sector organisations, including multiple independent publishers, to provide a digital content strategies.
Tim has worked in communications, campaigning and alternative media since 2003 and was a co-founder of publication Manchester Mule (now The Meteor). He’s been involved with Ethical Consumer for almost 15 years, initially as a researcher, then as a co-editor, director and communications lead. He’s a board member at the Fair Tax Foundation and Red Pepper magazine.
He’s also a drummer, football coach, Stoke City supporter and dad of two.
Shaun is a specialist in the digital sector and within digital infrastructure development. He has 25 years’ experience setting up and running internet businesses and is Chair and senior consultant at the Community Broadband Network, and a founding director of Manchester Digital. Shaun co-founded Poptel, the pioneering co-operative on-line services provider that became one of the UK’s first ISPs and went on to launch the .coop top level internet domain in the first round of new domains in 2001. He was co-opted on the Ethical Consumer board in 2009.
We currently have a vacancy for a non-executive director.
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