Profiles

Amy Hammond

Vassia Paloumbi

Amy Hammond, BSc CEnv MIEMA

Amy founded Lantern in response to a common problem organisations face when pursuing sustainability objectives – poor project delivery. Projects start out with excellent sustainability goals but fail to deliver impact for their stakeholders. Amy wanted to offer brilliant project delivery to enable sustainability projects to achieve their goals, on time and in budget.

Amy’s experience includes developing and successfully implementing an award-winning timber programme for B&Q, authoring national and regional strategies and action plans for the Forestry Commission, advising property developers in China on how to lower the impact of their operations and leading behaviour change programmes and corporate sustainability programmes for Tate, Yeo Valley, Tesco and Walkers.

Working in South West China as Deputy Director of BioRegional China, Amy advised municipal authorities and developers on Eco-city policy and mixed-use development projects. Amy also managed a UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office project to develop low carbon real estate models and Eco-city policy for a Chinese municipality.

A Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment and Chartered Environmentalist, Amy’s international portfolio has included projects in Australia, South Africa, Germany, Morocco and China.

Amy brings a wealth of UK and International management experience to her work. As an energy and sustainability consultant she has delivered innovative solutions to both public and private sector clients.

Dr Vassia Paloumbi

Since 2007 Vassia has been working in the field of Sustainability, Carbon and Energy Management and applied her experience and expertise in different sectors including local government, NGO and private sector.

Educated with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering Vassia entered the environmental field following her studies. Vassia has extensive experience working with many different clients, delivering environmental/ energy audits and implementing environmental strategies and policies. She has a successful record in implementing energy efficiency projects and delivering efficiencies and cost savings as well as energy procurement.

As the in-house expert at Hammersmith and Fulham, Tate and the Bank of England, she helped to reduce carbon emissions, deliver energy and financial savings as well as developed and implemented a number of large and complicated projects including capital, renewable installations and behaviour change.