Louise Petrakas

Louise has a unique role. She is responsible for ensuring that our Ceres Rural consultants are able to efficiently provide farmers and landowners with free business advice, via Defra's Future Farming Resilience Fund (FFRF).

Louise is an expert project manager who started her career as a graduate at John Lewis managing the pre-opening support for new branches. Via a secondment in venue management at London 2012 Olympic Games, she joined UK Anti Doping’s testing team for three years, restructuring their logistics and allocations. Following this Louise moved to the AHDB where she took her learnings from other industries to the agricultural sector. At the AHDB she was responsible for keeping the arable knowledge exchange programme to time and budget for six years.

Outside of work Louise spends most of her time chasing after a very active toddler and finding new places to enjoy delicious food with her family and friends.