The team
Isabel Bermejo
Isabel became involved in environmental activism in the 80s, supporting efforts to stop the destruction of biodiversity-rich Mediterranean forest in southern Spain by eucalyptus monocultures. In 1990 she was elected to the Executive Board of the European Environmental Bureau, representing the Spanish Environmental movement for 2 years in the European federation. In 1994 she was Project Coordinator for Cantabria (in northern Spain) of the World Wildlife Fund European project “Participation and Sustainable Development in the Regions”. Member of Ecologistas en Acción since its foundation in 1999, from 2003-07 she coordinated campaigning in agricultural issues and was member of the Secretariat of this grassroots federation. From 1996-2007 she has lectured on the Módulo de Biodiversidad in the Master in Agroecology of the International University of Andalucía. She lives in Cantabria, in northern Spain.
Jon Cracknell
Jon has worked on environmental issues since the early 1990’s. Following degrees in Social and Political Sciences and then Mass Communications he worked in the early 1990’s for a London-based public affairs company which specialised in lobbying for non-profit clients. Since the end of 1993 Jon has worked with the family of the late Sir James Goldsmith, initially as a researcher for Sir James whilst he was a member of the European Parliament, and since 1998 as the director of the family’s philanthropic activity. Jon coordinates the UK Environmental Funders Network (EFN) (www.greenfunders.org) which brings together 90 foundations funding environmental initiatives, and he is a Board Member of its US equivalent, the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA).
Jessica Dunlop
Jessica first came to Ibiza as an infant, and returned annually, forging a lifelong love of the island. Her professional background has been predominantly filmmaking. In 2009, inspired by the global threat of climate change she launched 1 minute to save the world, an online film festival to raise awareness of climate change. The project gained international acclaim and official recognition by the UN and has the support of leading film companies and NGO’s. Recognising that change begins locally, she is applying her production and marketing skills to the Ibiza Preservation Fund. Jessica lives in Es Fornas, Ibiza.
Hattie Wells
Hattie has a long-standing love of Ibiza, having visited the island since childhood. Academically trained as an ethnobotanist, with additional experience in arid horticulture, she has a broad knowledge of plants, gardening and ecology. Prior to her work with the Ibiza Preservation Fund, she worked in the not-for-profit sector as a project manager and regional coordinator for community based conservation projects in Namibia and Botswana. She has six years of fundraising and marketing skills to accompany the hands on development work she has done. Hattie has been a resident on the island for the last eighteen months, but now divides her time between Ibiza and England.
