Leading Sustainability Advocate & Co-founder of Forum for the Future
Leading Sustainability Advocate & Co-founder of Forum for the Future
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Jonathon Porritt is a prominent sustainability advocate and author, and co-founder of Forum for the Future, who has worked with many organizations and received a CBE for his environmental services.
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Jonathon Porritt is an eminent writer and campaigner on sustainable development.
In 1996 he co-founded Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainable development charity, working with business and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future.
Jonathon is President of The Conservation Volunteers, and is actively involved in the work of many other NGOs and organisations.
He was formerly Co-Chair of the Green Party (1980-83), Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90), a Trustee of WWF-UK (1991-2005), a member of the Board of the South West Regional Development Agency (1999-2008), and a Trustee of Ashden. He stood down as Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in 2009, after nine years providing high-level advice to Government Ministers. Jonathon served a ten-year term as Chancellor of Keele University (2012-2022), and was a Non-Executive Director of Willmott Dixon until 2022.
In 2017, Jonathon received Ethical Corporation’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Responsible Business Awards. He was awarded a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.
His latest book, Hope in Hell (Simon & Schuster, 2020) is a powerful ‘call to action’ on the Climate Emergency.
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