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. |
| 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. |
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Sir John Lawton Professor Sir John Lawton is an eminent British ecologist, currently Vice President of the RSPB, Chair of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and a Life Fellow of WWF-UK. Throughout his distinguished career, Sir John held a number of pivotal roles, including Chief Executive of the National Environment Research Council (NERC) for 6 years and he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution from 2005 until its closure in 2011. His interests have revolved around population dynamics and biodiversity of birds and insects, and in 1989 he founded the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College London. He has played a major part in promoting UK-wide wildlife conservation, leading the ‘Lawton Review’ of the resilience and adequacy of England’s wildlife sites, Making Space For Nature, which was published in 2010. Concluding that England’s ecological network is too small and isolated, the review called for better protection of England’s wildlife and the establishment of new Ecological Restoration Zones. This was widely supported, and accepted by the current Government who in 2011 set up funding for Nature Improvement Areas. Over the last decade, he has been particularly interested in the impacts of environmental change on ecosystems worldwide and has been notably outspoken about the issue of global warming. Sir John has published over 320 scientific papers throughout his career, and in 2011 he was awarded the RSPB medal for his contributions to wild bird protection and countryside conservation. |
| Sara Parkin Sara Parkin is a Founder-Director and Trustee of Forum for the Future, an organisation with the mission to promote sustainable development. Her primary focus is in developing the capacity of individuals to embed sustainability in leadership. Other areas of particular interest include innovation in organisational governance and the economy, as a key interest in achieving social and environmental justice. Following a dynamic career in politics, in which she spent time as the Chair of the Green Party of England and Wales, her current work focuses on integrating sustainability into industry and professions as well as on promoting sustainability education and leadership. She has published numerous works on sustainability and Green Politics. She is currently an advisor to the Population and Sustainability Network, a companion of both the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Energy, the Chair of the Richard Sandbrook Trust and a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment. Sara previously sat on the boards of the Natural Environmental Research Agency, the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and the Environment Agency for England and Wales and was awarded an OBE in 2001 for services to education and sustainable development |
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Jonathon Porritt Jonathon Porritt is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on environmental protection and sustainable development. He is a co-founder of Forum for the Future, which helps companies to understand and promote sustainable development. He is also co-director of The Prince of Wales’ Business and Environment Programme, non-executive director of Wessex Water and a trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. He supports the work of a number of non-governmental organisations as patron, chair or special adviser. A founding member of the UK Ecology Party (now the Green Party), Jonathon acted as co-chair from 1980 until 1983. He has previously worked as director of Friends of the Earth, chairman of UNEP-UK (now the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future) and chairman of the South West Round Table for Sustainable Development. Beginning in 2000, he stood as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission for nine years, during which time he provided high-level advice to government ministers. Jonathon has published numerous books, including ‘Capitalism as if the world matters’, and ‘Living within our means’. In 2000 he received a CBE for his services to environmental protection. |
| 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 PhD 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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| Judy Ling Wong Judy Ling Wong is UK Director of the Black Environment Network (BEN), which works to integrate environmental, social and cultural issues in the context of sustainable development. Through connecting mainstream organisations with urban-based ethnic minority communities, BEN enables them to engage with the environmental and heritage sectors. Judy has been involved with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Historic Environment Executive Committee, ODPM Urban Green Spaces Task Force, National Trust Council for England and Wales, Wales Assembly Government Environmental Strategy Reference Group, Scottish Museums Council National Access and Learning Steering Group, and the IUCN/WCPA Task Force for Cities and Protected Areas. She is a Board Member of the Countryside and Community Research Institute, and an Honorary Fellow of CIWEM. In 1997 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts for her contribution to contemporary environmental thinking. She was awarded an OBE as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2000 in recognition of her pioneering work in establishing ethnic environmental participation. In 2005, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Gloucester. She received a CBE in the Birthday Honours 2007 for services to heritage. |
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Other Honorary Fellows
David Bellamy
Tim Bines
Robert Fuller
John Potter
Brian Pyatt
Michael Wise CBE MC