Honorary Fellows
Honorary Fellowships of the Institution of Environmental Sciences are awarded to individuals who have achieved a significant national and international profile in their professional capacity, in a field of interest or expertise which contributes to the charitable objectives of the Institution. They need not necessarily be an environmental scientist by profession.
Honorary Fellowships reward the particular contribution people have made to the environmental sciences in their broadest sense: to their promotion to the wider public and within the professions, in outreach and administration, teaching, research and professional development. They also recognise an individual's contribution towards sustainable development.
Featured Honorary Fellows
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Brian Chalkley Professor Brian Chalkley has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to the development and promotion of environmental and geographical sciences, and education for sustainable development, in Higher Education Institutions in the UK and internationally. As the Director of the national Higher Education Academy’s ‘Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centre’ for almost a decade, he is well known for his support of the professional development of hundreds of academics in the environmental and geographical disciplines, and through outreach into the other subject areas, teachers in university departments more widely. He has made notable contributions also to the promotion of sustainability in skills for graduate employability, and sustainable development education in schools, and has been the author of many high quality books, articles and web resources. He had joint overall responsibility for Plymouth’s four successful bids for national Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, including the ‘Centre for Sustainable Futures’ and the ‘Centre for Experiential Learning in Environmental and Natural Sciences’. His commitment to sharing good pedagogic practice is further illustrated by his education publications, his national and international conference presentations, and by his role on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JGHE). In 2002 Brian was awarded a UK National Teaching Fellowship, and in 2006 was made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. More recently he has been awarded an Adjunct Professorship by the University of Western Australia, and the Royal Geographical Society’s Taylor and Francis Prize for his contributions to geographical education. |
| Bob Watson Professor Bob Watson has been the Chief Scientific Officer for Defra since 2007, and is also Professor of Environmental Sciences and the Director of Strategic Development at the University of East Anglia. Prior to taking up his post at Defra, Bob Watson was the Chief Scientist and Senior Advisor for Sustainable Development for the World Bank. He has also held senior positions at NASA and the White House, and was a chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002. He has played a key role in the negotiation of global environment conventions and the evolution of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Bob was also Director and Co-chair of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as well as the International Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone. Professor Watson received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the London University in 1973. He has since received many national and international awards and prizes for his contributions to science, including the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility in 1993 and the insignia of Honorary Companion of St. Michael and St. George from the British Government in 2003. |
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Tony Juniper Tony Juniper is Special Advisor to the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project, and a Senior Associate with the Cambridge University Program for Industry. He speaks and writes on a wide range of environmental issues and sits on several Government advisory panels. He has authored several books, including Spix's Macaw (2002) and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet? (2007). A student of Psychology and Zoology, Tony's career began at Birdlife International, where he was at the forefront of raising awareness of species and habitat loss within the Amazon rainforest. His work succeded in averting the extinction of some of its most endangered parrots, notably the Spix's Macaw. Seeking to address the wider environmental issues at play, Tony moved to Friends of the Earth in 1990, and over the next 18 years he found himself playing a prominent role in many of its most high profile campaigns. He became Executive Director in 2003, being one of the most prominent voices within the environmental movement, holding the post until 2008. His campaign work has directly influenced the development of Government legislation, most notably with regards to the Climate Change Bill, introduced in 2007. |
| Martin Williams Professor Martin Williams hasjoined the Environmentral Research Group at King's College to establish a Science Policy Unit. He was previously Head of the Air and Environmental Quality Division of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and took a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Bristol. After postdoctoral research at UBC in Vancouver, he joined the air pollution division of the Governement's Warren Spring Laboratory, becoming its Head in 1982. After a period as technical assistant to the Chief Scientist of the Department of Trade and Industry, he joined the then Department of the Environment to head the Science Unit on Air Quality, becoming Head of the Division in 2002, where he has responsibility for policy on air quiality and industrial air pollution control. He is currently chairman of the Executive Body of the UNECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution. |  |
Other Honorary Fellows
David Bellamy
Tim Bines
Robert Fuller
John Potter
Michael Wise CBE MC