Samantha Heath

Samantha Heath
Member of the London Assembly for the Labour Party (London-wide)
In office 4 May 2000 – 10 June 2004
Personal details
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

Samantha Heath (b. 6 June 1960) is Director of London Sustainability Exchange; a groundbreaking voluntary organization supporting the delivery of London as the most sustainable world city. She is a member and former co-chair of the London Sustainable Development Commission and a member of the London Climate Change Partnership. She is also sits on the Stratford City Environmental Review panel. Her experience includes ten years in London politics, eight years in academia and research and ten years in civil engineering.

Prior to joining LSx, Heath was Sustainability Manager for Future London, the capital’s regeneration centre of excellence. Until 2004 she was a London-wide Assembly Member, Deputy Chair of the London Assembly and Chair of Assembly’s Environment Committee. In 2003 she was the Mayor’s representative on the Energy Taskforce - part of the London Sustainable Development Commission, and responsible for setting a carbon emission reduction target for London. In 2004 she became chair of the DTI / GLA London Renewables group. As lead member for the Mayor on London Waste Action she facilitated funding for London’s waste awareness campaign.

She has written for various publications and speaks at conferences and seminars on: community empowerment, lifestyle change social marketing, air quality, energy waste and other issues.

Additional information

Heath trained as a Civil Engineer and worked for many years in the construction industry. She was a lecturer in design and construction management at the University of Greenwich until May 2000. Until she stood down in May 2002, Heath was a Wandsworth Councillor and served on the Education, Housing and Environment committees from 1994, and was a lead member on housing in London Borough of Wandsworth up until the May election for the GLA..

She was third on the party list in the 2000 election and won a seat due to this. She led on environmental and energy issues in the Assembly. In the 2004 Labour Party failed to poll enough votes to give her a seat.

External links

• Biography from the London Assembly
• London Sustainability Exchange