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Jennifer Otoadese
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Manager, UKERC Meeting Place
Tel: 01865 285171
email: Jennifer Otoadese
Jennifer Otoadese is Manager of the Meeting Place. She is the first point of contact for anyone wishing to discuss or propose an event or training programme in partnership with the Meeting Place. For Meeting Place supported events, Jennifer will work with a Steering Committee to determine the overall aims and objectives, determine format, facilitate the event as needed and contribute to report writing and appropriate dissemination of outputs.
Previous Experience
At the core of Jennifer’s varied career path has been an emphasis on action learning and engagement in service of environmental and social justice concerns. She began her professional career working for the Gwich’in Renewable Resources Board in Inuvik, Arctic Canada, contributing to natural resources co-management and participatory community decision-making. The lessons learned from community leaders and Elders proved to be invaluable and transformational.
At UNEP Nairobi, she supported a participatory publication with children and youth to convey young peoples’ feelings of their environment. She continued with environmental engagement in Canada, where she managed an international climate change knowledge network and a participatory research project that documented the impacts of climate change on the Inuvialuit community of Sachs Harbour. In 2002 she moved on to work with One Sky, a small action-oriented NGO that has a holistic approach to community development and human security. Based in Nigeria for close to 3 years, she coordinated an environmental capacity development project with local NGOs in the Cross River Bioregion of Cross River State.
Jennifer arrived in the UK in 2005 and spent two years working with an inspiring team at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE supporting the research centre before transferring to the UKERC Meeting Place at the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford.
Karyn John
Events Manager, UKERC Meeting Place
Tel: 01865 285069
email: Karyn John
Karyn is the Event Manager of the Meeting Place. She is in charge of Logistics for all Meeting Place events, and will liaise with the venue and participants, speakers and help with the facilitation at all events.
Previous Experience
Karyn left the big smoke in 2004 and moved to Oxford for a more civilized commute to work. She joined the UK Energy Research Centre in December 2007. Karyn manages and seeks to develop logistical advancement to all the different kind of events involved in bringing together the energy community. At university she trained in hospitality management with an interest in eco tourism and after that travelled Australia managing small intimate events to large high profile functions researching and developing hospitality techniques in the process.
A passion for music and the possibility of organising something like the Big Chill encouraged her to move into an all round career as an event manager. Past roles have involved organising sales conferences/product launches for pharmaceutical companies, managing logistics for Microsoft road shows, running exhibitions and raising the profile of alumni within an independent school. Since joining UKERC Meeting Place, she feels she is starting to align the more creative/artistic side of her personality within the delivery of her events to be able to create a more all round hospitality experience for participants.
Timothy Cooper
Administration and Events Assistant
Tel: 01865 285174
email: Timothy Cooper
Tim's role is to assist the Meeting Place with day to day activities, administrative duties, report writting, event planning and to provide technical media and IT assistance during events.
Previous experience
Tim completed a Master of Science in Sustainable Development and Environmental Change at the University of Exeter in 2009, and has worked for the Meeting Place since February 2010. Before joining the UKERC Meeting Place, Tim worked as an Environmental Consultant focusing on carbon finance mechanisms, both compliance and voluntary and their associated development opportunities for African countries for various UN and government departments. Tim has also worked on researching leadership in sustainable development during his MSc and has an undergraduate degree in Geography.
Gabi Tait
Events and Administation Officer, UKERC Meeting Place
Tel: 01865 285169
email: Gabi Tait
Gabi is the Events and Administration Officer of the Meeting Place, her role is the administrative and logistical support to the Meeting Place, which inolves everything from the website, registration, data managament, clients liaison and facilitation at events.
Previous experience
Gabi has been working for the Meeting Place since early 2007, in on of her previous roles Gabi managed the day to day running of a logistics department from the receipt of order, goods receiving, material handling and shipping to the customer. This was in the automotive industry on a strict and tight Just in Time manufacturing schedule.
She has also been teaching German in Primary schools in several different schools in Oxfordshire. She also worked as a twinning officer organising events and general twinning function between Abingdon/Vale of White Horse and its 5 twin towns. Gabi is German and has a degree in Business System Management from the Fachhochschule Reutlingen, Germany. She is married to Jeremy and has 2 children.
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