Jane Davidson (born 19 March 1957) is a

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former Labour politician, the former Assembly Member for

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, and served as minister for environment, sustainability and housing in the

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. She also previously served as the Welsh vice-president of the

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, stepping down when appointed minister for environment, sustainability and housing in 2007. She announced in 2008 that she would not be seeking re-election to the assembly in 2011.

Professional career

Prior to her election to the Welsh Assembly Davidson was a member of

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. In the Assembly she was minister for environment and sustainability in Wales from 2007 to 2011 where she was responsible for the Welsh Government agreeing to make sustainable development its central organising principle. Prior to that she was minister for education and lifelong learning where she introduced a new foundation phase for 3- to 7-year-olds, the Welsh Baccalaureate and Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) into the Welsh curriculum.Jane Davidson
In 2011, following her ministerial career and subsequent move to West Wales as planned, Davidson took up employment as director of the Wales Institute for Sustainability at the local Trinity St David University shortly afterwards, which intends to introduce sustainability content into every student's experience from 2013. In 2017, Jane was guest faculty in the Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership programme at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Contributions to public policy

Davidson was the third most influential environmentalist in the UK for the Independent on Sunday in 2009 and has been ''Resource'' magazine's number one and two in 2009 and 2010 for her work on waste. She holds honorary fellowships from CIW (Chartered Institute of Waste) and CIWEM (Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management) and is a member of WWF's UK Council of Global Ambassadors. Davidson was a judge on the 2011 Green AwardsJane Davidson , International Green Awards
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in the run up to Rio+20.

References

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