Meet our trustees

Peter Waine – Chairman

Peter is a former national chair of CPRE and of the Tree Council and of the National Fruit Collection (at Brogdale). He was chair of the Welwyn Garden City Centenary Foundation, and of the Welwyn Garden Society. He has been on the boards of public and private companies in addition to being a former visiting professor at Warwick and Bayes Business Schools. He is a former member of the International Cricket Council and a trustee of the Royal Opera House and of the Gardens Trust. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners.

Peter is author or co-author of two books on the countryside, two business books, a novel, a collection of poetry and a biography of A E Housman. He is chair of the Housman Society. Peter is a former judge for the Wainwright Literary Prize (for countryside writing) and for the Contrarian Prize. He writes on occasion for Country Life.

Alison Young – Vice Chairman

Alison has had a long and successful career in Planning, with over 30 years in Local Government Planning departments, including 10 years leading the Development Management service for East Hertfordshire District Council. She is now the director of a planning consultancy based in East Herts. Alison has a BA (Hons) degree in Town Planning from London South Bank University and a Certificate of Management Concepts & Skills in Planning from the University of Cambridge. Alison is passionate about promoting the enjoyment of our countryside whilst maintaining its intrinsic character and rural qualities.

Steve Wiltshire – Treasurer

Steve has lived in St Albans for over thirty years with his wife and family. He established his own management consultancy after a long career in investment management, and also has public and private sector experience of applied environmental science. Steve has a doctorate in hydrology and degrees in river engineering and art history. He is a keen walker and cyclist and is passionate about protecting the Hertfordshire countryside.

Andrew Anastasiou – Trustee

Andrew joins CPRE Hertfordshire with an impressive track record of involvement in charities supporting people in crisis and using sport for social good to support young people and their families who are experiencing inequalities.

Andrew has had a varied career starting out in the industrial chemicals industry with blue chip corporates, then moving to  technology consulting. He changed career path and founded one of the first community interest companies in the UK, CHILD UK. As CEO for 12 years, he led an organisation that successfully utiised sport as a mechanism to transform the lives of young people. He then served as Strategic Lead for the national charity StreetGames, in London and the East of England, leading projects tackling food poverty, serious violence, hate crime, community development and health inequalities, and was CEO for a youth mental health charity. Andrew has a number of non-executive roles, coaching and mentoring non-profits and SMEs.

Andrew brings extensive knowledge across a range of sectors in strengthening partnership development, growing income, and marketing and communications.

Elizabeth Hamilton – Trustee

Elizabeth was born and brought up in Hertfordshire and returned with her family in 1996. A geographer and ecologist, she has worked or volunteered in wildlife and countryside management since 1977. She first volunteered for us in 2004 and was Chairman from 2009-14; she was also a national CPRE Trustee for six years until 2017. In addition to rejoining the Trustee Board in 2020, her voluntary roles with CPRE Hertfordshire currently include giving talks to local groups, helping with marketing and fundraising, and writing content for our digital media. A keen walker and gardener, she is working to improve her wildlife photography skills, and her photographs appear regularly on our website and social media.

Paul Harding – Trustee

Paul was born in Knebworth and has lived in Hertfordshire all his life. He studied estate Management at Oxford Brookes University before qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor. As a Partner/Director of an international firm of property advisors he has worked on major commercial investment portfolios and landmark buildings throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Now retired, he leads projects for his local church and is Planning lead on Wymondley Parish Council.

Having lived with his wife and three children in a rural environment but close to historic market towns, new towns and garden cities Paul has always appreciated the important balance and interaction of towns and countryside. He enjoys the countryside with his grandchildren as well as cycling and walking particularly the long distance paths most recently the Icknield Way.

He hopes to bring his knowledge and love of Hertfordshire’s rural character to support CPRE’s ethos to protect the delicate balance that Hertfordshire has between the built environment and the countryside which enhances the lives of all who live or work in the county.

Adam Hopwood – Trustee

Originally from Yorkshire, Adam settled in Digswell in early 2018, where he now lives with his wife and two children. After graduating from Clare College, Cambridge with a degree in Natural Sciences and Management Studies, he has built a career in business transformation within the telecoms sector. Adam spends as much time as possible immersed in the picturesque Hertfordshire countryside, whether walking, cycling or enjoying nature with his family. He recently returned to Cambridge to complete a Master’s degree in Sustainability Leadership.

Allan McNab – Trustee

Allan is a Chartered Management Accountant whose career developed in several different industries and culminated as a partner in Coopers & Lybrand. He has lived in Hertfordshire for a total of 47 years and served on the Aston Parish Council for 16 years. This included chairing the preparation of the Aston Parish Plan in 2005, and actively opposing developments in the Green Belt east of Stevenage and in the East Herts District Plan. More recently, he has become a CPRE Hertfordshire Trustee and served as our Chairman from 2021 – 2024. He is very interested in countryside matters and is also a member of Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust and the River Beane Restoration Association.

Kruna Vukmirovic – Trustee

Kruna moved from London to North Hertfordshire in 2020, having previously lived in London where she moved from Croatia in the early nineties. She has over twenty years of experience in scientific publishing and in her current role she is responsible for developing academic journals covering cutting-edge research in engineering and technology. Kruna joined CPRE Hertfordshire as a volunteer content writer and she will continue contributing to the charity in this capacity. She is passionate about the local countryside and its preservation for the future generations and in her spare time she enjoys long walks in the Hertfordshire countryside and yoga.