E3G

Change Agents for Sustainable Development

 

Tom Burke
Founding Director


Tom Burke

Tom Burke is a Founding Director of E3G, an Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto plc and a Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London.

Tom is Chair of the Review of Environmental Governance in Northern Ireland. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of ENDS magazine. He is the co-chairman of the British-German Environment Forum.

Tom was a member of the Council of English Nature, the statutory advisor to the British Government on biodiversity, from 1999-2005. He was Special Advisor to three Secretaries of State for the Environment from 1991-97 after serving as Director of the Green Alliance from 1982-91.

He has been a professional environmentalist for 30 years, and was formerly Executive Director of Friends of the Earth and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Environmental Bureau 1988-91. In 1993 he was appointed to United Nations Environment Programme's `Global 500' roll of honour. In 1997, he was appointed CBE for services to the environment.

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