Jonathan is a highly experienced corporate finance professional, who has been involved in the renewable energy and low carbon sectors for over 30 years. He secured the finance for the first wind farm in the UK, the first community wind project in the UK and a number of other wind, solar and biomass projects. He also developed a Windfarm on his own account. Jonathan was founding partner of the Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Group instigating the influential Ernst & Young renewable energy country attractiveness indices. He is experienced in large-scale social enterprise and helped raise the initial finance for the Eden Project. He is a past Treasurer of the predecessor to UK Renewables, the British Wind Energy Association and the Renewable Energy Association and was a non-executive director of Regen SW. As Climate Change Matters, Jonathan advises NGOs and commercial enterprises in the renewables sector.