Environmental & Sustainability Consultancy

Michael is a Partner and Senior Research Consultant at The Andersons Centre, specialising in market development, international trade, agri-food policy, and environmental issues. He has led numerous trade policy research projects across a wide range of UK farming sectors, including assessments of non-tariff measures and free trade agreements on UK agri-food. Michael has also managed several projects focused on greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental impact of farming. He previously worked with IHS (now S&P Global), JFC Agri and the European Commission. Michael comes from a livestock farming background in Ireland and holds a BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Economics and Management from Queen’s University Belfast, as well as an MSc in International Agricultural and Food Marketing from Newcastle University.

Anna is a Senior Farm Business Consultant at The Andersons Centre, specialising in dairy consultancy and nutrient management planning. Her work encompasses financial, strategic, and technical advice for dairy farmers; succession planning and people management, benchmarking; facilitating a number of dairy discussion groups across England and Wales, and working alongside the research team on dairy projects. Anna is FACTS qualified. Prior to Andersons Anna spent ten years working for a dairy consultancy in West Wales and read BSc (Hons) International Equine and Agricultural Management and MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security at the Royal Agricultural College. Anna manages a spring block calving dairy farm through a contract farming agreement and grew up on a dairy farm in West Wales. She sits on the AHDB Dairy Sector Council as a farmer representative and from 2023 to 2025 was a Trustee of the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust.

Amelia is a Farm Business Consultant at The Andersons Centre. She works with numerous clients across England, specialising in the arable sector. She provides services such as budgeting and cash flow monitoring, investment appraisals, borrowing proposals, contract farming agreements, grant applications, environmental scheme applications, and whole business reviews. Amelia comes from an arable family farming business in Cambridgeshire and holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Agriculture with Farm Business Management from Harper Adams University.

Amy is an Environmental Business Consultant at The Andersons Centre, specialising in environmental and biodiversity enhancement, carbon auditing and natural capital assessments. Having been involved in numerous carbon audits, assessing individual farms’ greenhouse gas emissions and conducting soil sampling representative of the farm. She has extensive experience in ecological identification, vegetation classification, habitat creation and management plans. Involving natural capital markets such as Biodiversity Net Gain and Woodland Creation. Amy comes from a farming background within the Leicestershire area and holds a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Land Management, as well as an MSc in Agroecology, both obtained at Harper Adams University. Having conducted her Master’s Research Project on the viability of solar farming with dual-use livestock grazing within Shropshire County. The results have been utilised within numerous agricultural academic conferences, including conferences held in Sweden.

Alex is a Farm Business Consultant at The Andersons Centre, with experience in most aspects of lowland agriculture. Offering business consultancy advice, budgeting, business reviews, and financial planning. Other areas of expertise include on farm diversification, Countryside Stewardship, Sustainable Farming Incentive, and other grant applications.

She is also involved in conducting carbon audits and reporting on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

Alex comes from an arable and sheep farm in Leicestershire which over the last 50 years has diversified into running a Clay Pigeon Shooting Ground, Fishing Lakes and delivering Hardwood Logs for firewood, . She holds a BSc degree in Agriculture with Farm Business Management from Harper Adams University, is a member of IAgrM and associate member of BIAC.