Board of Directors
Mothiur Rahman
Mothiur Rahman trained at CMS Cameron McKenna, a top 20 City law firm, and worked at Bircham Dyson Bell for 7 years as Senior Associate in its Governance and Infrastructure department. He has extensive experience of advising on a range of environmental and planning and public law related matters, with a focus on public authorities and the authorisation of major infrastructure projects.
Mothiur recently completed a Masters in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon where he now lives and works under New Economy Law, as a freelance legal practitioner supporting clients who are similarly driven to create an ecologically regenerative world.
Roland Playle
Roland has over 15 years’ community facilitation experience working in development projects, often in conflict regions. His areas of specialism include human ecology, and supporting implementation of inclusive and participative working practices. His UK work includes a major regeneration project for the North Glasgow Community Food Initiative in a locality with highest deprivation in Europe. Internationally, he has facilitated projects with rural and urban communities from Kyrgyzstan, India, DR Congo and New Zealand.
Many of his writings have been published, including in the Journal for Participatory Science and the Kashmir Times. He also runs courses throughout the UK and acts as a visiting lecturer for Schumacher College, with a focus on Goethean Science.
Dr Jamie McKenzie Hamilton
Jamie currently works as a strategic marketing consultant. In 2018 he gained his doctorate from Heriot-Watt University for his thesis on relationships between outdoor learning and children’s cognitive development. Prior to this he was co-founder and Managing Director of Netfluential, a pioneer of online co-creation software and methodology.
Jamie has a BSc Psychology and a MSc in Systems-Based Environmental Decision-Making. His expertise includes group facilitation, systemic thinking and approaches, and qualitative research and analysis. He has acted as a strategic business consultant for companies including the NHS, Microsoft, Google, HTC, Nokia, and VISA. His papers have been published in both the international academic and research press.