Geraldine is an Innovation Lead in the SSPP Team and brings a wealth of experience in project and programme management in the field of waste and resources. She joined Innovate UK in October 2019 following a career primarily in local government, where she worked on EU grant-funded projects, strategy and policy development as well as service design and improvement. Having spent a number of years working in waste and resource management and wider environmental issues, she has keen interests in sustainability and circular economy approaches. She particularly values cross-sector and multidisciplinary collaborative partnerships that bring about solutions for the future of the planet and she relishes facilitating such collaborations.

Geraldine leads SSPP’s work on films and flexibles, including a Large-scale Demonstrator project film sorting and recycling, and core programme work streams, including funding for FPF FlexCollect and CEFLEX | A circular economy for flexible packaging. These major industry initiatives are focused on the particularly challenging area of films and flexibles, addressing a range of issues from packaging design through to household collection and recycling.