collison and associates
Norfolk,
Martin has an degree in agriculture from Wye College, University of London. He
then taught for 16 years at Writtle College specialising in financial
management, agricultural trade, EU policy and business strategy. Martin also
established a series of projects to link the College with other EU states to
facilitate staff and student exchange, joint course delivery and the delivery of
EU funded projects. He has taught short courses in Finland, the Netherlands and
Romania. He continues to work closely with the education sector and now gives
guest lectures on food markets and policy at the National Centre for Food
Manufacturing at the University of Lincoln. Martin co-founded an import business
in 1990 which he sold in 1999 and was a partner in the family farm J A Collison
and Sons from 1994-2008 which supplies cut flowers to supermarkets. He founded
Collison and Associates with Lynn in 2002, having been a consultant since 2000.
His clients have included a wide range of commercial, public and third sector
bodies and he specializes in developing strategies, projects and programmes to
deliver change in rural areas. During 2012-13 Martin worked alongside the team
developing the UK Agri-Tech Strategy. Martin is a member of: Greater
Lincolnshire Food Board, Greater Lincolnshire Water Management Board, Norfolk
Rural Development Strategy delivery group and the CLA’s Agriculture and Land Use
Committee. He was Vice Chair of the Fens Adventurers Leader RDPE Group
(2010-‘13) and is Chair of the Cambridgeshire Fens Leader group (2015-2020). He
leads the Communications and Engagement work of Water Resources East (WRE). As
well as his Higher Education, consultancy and business experience Martin was a
Principal Examiner for ‘A’ Level applied business for AQA from 2000-’13
following previous work as an examiner for City and Guilds and Edexcel.
Contacts: martin@collisonassociates.co.uk +44 (0) 7802 480 848
