Ray Purdy is currently the Head of Legal Research and Analysis at The Office for Environmental Protection, a role started in October 2023. Alongside this position, Ray serves as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law at University College Dublin since May 2022. With extensive experience, Ray has been the Director of Air and Space Evidence Ltd since September 2014, a company recognized as the World's first "Space Detective Agency." Additional roles include Senior Research Analyst at Ecocentric Consulting since 2014, Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law at the University of Oxford (January 2016 - May 2022), and committee member for the funding committee at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. Ray's previous involvement includes serving as an Hon. Visiting Senior Research Fellow at University College London, advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones in the UK Parliament, member of the Global Review Panel at Europol, and Visiting Research Lecturer at Forensic Architecture.
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The Office for Environmental Protection
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) protects and improves the environment by holding government and other public authorities to account. What we do: • monitor and report on the implementation of environmental law • advise government on proposed changes to the law and other environmental matters • review and report on government’s progress in meeting environmental goals and targets • investigate suspected failures to comply with environmental law by government and public authorities and enforce compliance where needed. The public can make a complaint to us where they suspect that the government or a public authority has failed to comply with environmental law. We were legally created in November 2021, and our work covers England and Northern Ireland.