Jonathon Porritt, CBE

Jonathon Porritt, CBE is Programme Director of Forum for the Future and Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission. He is an eminent writer, broadcaster, and commentator on sustainable development.
 
Established in 1996, Forum for the Future is now the UK’s leading sustainable development charity, with 70 staff and over 100 partner organizations, including some of the world’s leading companies.
 
Jonathon was appointed by the Prime Minister as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in July 2000. This is the Government’s principal source of independent advice across the whole sustainable development agenda. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of the South West Regional Development Agency since December 1999, and is Co-Director of The Prince of Wales’ Business and Environment Programme which runs Senior Executives’ Seminars in Cambridge, Salzburg, South Africa and the USA. In 2005 he became a Non-Executive Director of Wessex Water, and a Trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. He is also Vice-President of the Socialist Environment Resources Association (SERA).
 
He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth (1984–90); co-chair of the Green Party (1980–83) of which he is still a member; chairman of UNED-UK (1993–96); chairman of Sustainability South West, the South West Round Table for Sustainable Development (1999–2001); and a Trustee of WWF UK (1991–2005). He is on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine and actively supports the efforts of experts promoting renewable energy and sustainable development such as Walt Patterson.
 
Jonathon authored Capitalism as if the World Matters, Playing Safe: Science and the Environment (Prospects for Tomorrow), Globalism and Regionalism (Edge Futures), Save the Earth, and Preserve or Destroy.
 
Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.