Dr Gemma Jerome

Dr Gemma Jerome is the Director of Building with Nature. Gemma is an environmental planner specialising in the delivery, management, and maintenance of green infrastructure. ‘Building with Nature’ is the UK’s first green infrastructure benchmark and was a winner in the 2018 RTPI Planning Excellence Awards winning the ‘Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement’. She recently co-chaired the British Standards Institute panel for the BS8683 Biodiversity Net Gain standard, sits on the advisory group for the Natural England Green Infrastructure Standards Project, and has acted in an advisory capacity on various Government roundtables on quality.