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Who we are

Meet our senior team

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Roger Mortlock

Chief Executive

Roger joined CPRE as Chief Executive in May 2023 and is responsible for the overall running of the organisation. He joined following 10 years as Chief Executive of the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and leadership roles at the Soil Association and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is passionate about a more sustainable future for rural England and CPRE’s role in finding solutions which make the best use of our land and safeguard our countryside.

Happiest on two wheels or on foot in the countryside, Roger lives in the Stroud Valleys in Gloucestershire. He has held non-executive roles with the Bat Conservation Trust and the Soil Association Land Trust and is currently a trustee with the Summerfield Charitable Trust.

Mark Cornish

Director of Shared Services

Having completed a degree in Economics, Mark qualified as a Chartered Accountant with an international accountancy firm. Since then he has worked with varied organisations including British Wool Marketing Board, Bowel Cancer UK and a social integration charity, The Challenge. For over twenty-five years he has specialised in the Charity and Not-for-Profit sector, including as a Governor of a FE college and as a co-opted member of the Finance & Risk committees of the Charity Finance Group and currently Applied Microbiology International. Mark joined CPRE in March 2018 and oversees all aspects of CPRE’s Financial Strategy, Performance, HR, IT and corporate services.

Ruth Evans

Director of Development

Ruth is Director of Fundraising & Supporters, leading growth in income and Membership. Ruth has extensive experience in fundraising and communications, within the environmental sector having previously been Development Director for the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative and with over a decade as Director of Education Funding & Communities at the Royal Horticultural Society, and in the social sector for the Samaritans, Mind and Macmillan Cancer Support. Ruth’s non-executive experience includes acting as a Trustee for the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service (now the Royal Voluntary Service). She is currently a Trustee for the National Forest.

Elli Moody

Director of Campaigns and Communications

Elli joined CPRE in 2023. She leads a team of diverse experts across policy, campaigns and communications working with them alongside local groups to secure change and build awareness and positive perceptions of CPRE. She also oversees the charity’s current Knowledge Transfer Partnership in collaboration with Bayes Business School exploring innovation for income generation.

Elli is a communications and advocacy strategist and has spent nearly twenty years in UK and international not-for-profits focused on gender equality and environment. She’s worked across policy research, advocacy and campaigns, youth engagement, and communications. In previous roles, she’s supported and led organisational strategy development, change and transformation projects, and built and developed new comms and advocacy teams. She’s collaborated on a number of successful campaigns for policy and legal change and led an award-winning youth environment campaign. Elli grew up roaming the Peak District at weekends and now lives on the edge of the South Downs and loves the coastal countryside in Sussex.