Anna Francis

About Anna

Sutton Food Project Manager
MSc

At BioRegional, Anna manages the One Planet Food project - helping to make local, healthy food more accessible in the London Borough of Sutton. Anna has worked for BioRegional for a number of years and has been involved in a wide range of projects; from running workshops for communities and organisations and developing borough-wide sustainability strategies to compiling business plans for an eco industrial park for social enterprises and for a large local food programme. She co-authored the One Planet Living in the Suburbs report and is developing a retrofit programme. She is also a registered Code for Sustainable Homes Assessor.

Prior to joining BioRegional Anna worked as an Environmental Consultant for Waste Watch specialising in sustainable resource management, recycling and waste. She has also worked on a range of local food projects, helped to co-ordinate an environmental project in the Himalayas, worked in the communications department of an international energy company in Paris and speaks fluent French and excellent Spanish.

Anna regularly speaks at conferences in the UK and abroad. She lives on an eco-boat in South London, volunteers in a food co-op and is treasurer of a local community group.