Ian has worked within the animal welfare sector since 1989.
His roles have included shelter management, charity senior leadership and programme leadership, and animal health and welfare and Environmental Health law enforcement at both local authority level, and as an SPCA Inspector. He is a Registered Veterinary Nurse .
His work outside the UK has included periods as an ex-pat in Portugal, Malta, Bermuda, Grand Cayman and the Channel Islands as well as working on training and spay/neuter projects in a further 15 countries. He has worked directly with over 60 hoarding cases, from a variety of stakeholder perspectives, in several countries and with a range of outcomes.
Ian currently works for the RSPCA in London with responsibility for a London-wide cat welfare and neutering scheme co-funded by five charities.
