I have a journalist background, working for years as a radio documentary maker for BBC Scotland, and other BBC radio networks, but over the last few decades I have been fund-raising, developing, and delivering projects, primarily to do with cultural heritage in Albania where I was Director of the Butrint Foundation. This work stretched to Macedonia where I worked for the OSCE and to Italy at the archaeological site of Herculaneum.

However, I have always been drawn back to the sea and particularly to the west coast of Scotland where for generations my family have had a home on the Island of Tiree. I was brought up fishing, lobster-potting and sailing, and after taking a MSc in Climate Change in 2011, I decided to refocus my work on the environment. I’m now based on the Craignish peninsula in Argyll, where I have a boat and a bothy, and where I set up www.seawilding.org to work with communities on practical marine habitat restoration. I can’t think of a more rewarding life…