Independent Experts Advisory Panel
The Independent Experts Advisory Panel remains separate from the Foundation’s governance through its board of Trustees. Its missions are to:
- Help enhance the quality of the content the Foundation produces
- Help remain at the forefront of new developments both in terms of technology and ideas
- Keep an open channel of communication with leading professionals, in order to seek scientific validation or advice
The panel comprises:
Sir Ken Robinson, PhD
An internationally recognised leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources.
He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.
Sir Ken is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Warwick in the UK and has worked with governments in Europe, Asia and the United States, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations.
His renowned talks at the annual TED conference (2006 and 2010) continue to be viewed online by many millions of people around the world.
In 2003, he received a knighthood from H.M. Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s Principal Voices.
He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his international work in education, creativity and cultural development. He is author of New York Times bestseller The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, which has been translated into 20 languages.
Professor Tim Jackson
The UK’s first Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE) at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Environmental Strategy.
Has been at the forefront of research and teaching in sustainability for over 20 years and has led numerous research and policy initiatives on sustainable consumption and production in the UK and abroad.
Co-authored the first Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for the UK (1996) and has served in numerous advisory positions in the UK Government, the European Commission and the UN. Was Economics Commissioner to the UK Sustainable Development Commission from 2004 to 2011 where he led the Redefining Prosperity programme.
This work culminated in the publication of his groundbreaking book ‘Prosperity without Growth: economics for a finite planet’ which has been translated into 12 languages worldwide.
Professor Peter Guthrie, OBE
The UK’s first Professor for Engineering for Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Cambridge University’s Department of Engineering.
Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in the late 1990s; a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; and Vice-Chair of DEFRA’s Scientific Advisory Council until 2011.
A founder of RedR, a charity that provides engineers and other personnel to relief agencies in disasters. Awarded an OBE in 1994.
Peter Head CBE, Consultant and Former Chairman of Global Planning, Arup
Arup’s Global Leader of Planning is recognised for his work in major projects, advanced composite technology and sustainable city development.
Champions sustainable development principals that can improve the return on public and private investments in the built environment.
Peter Head has received an OBE for successfully delivering the Second Severn Crossing; has the Award of Merit of IABSE; won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal and the Prince Philip Award for Polymers in the Service of Mankind.
Nominated by Time magazine as one of 30 global eco-heroes (2008).
Professor David Banister
Professor of Transport Studies at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.
Acted as advisor to several government departments including Defra, DfT, DECC, Cabinet Office, and the NAO) and was a member of numerous Research Council Committees.
Awarded the Transport Policy Prize for his 2008 Transport Policy paper ‘The Sustainable Mobility Paradigm’ at the 12th World Conference on Transport Research.
Professor James Clark
Director of the Green Chemistry Centre, University of York with over 70 graduate researchers and support staff working on research, industrial collaboration, education and networking in green and sustainable chemistry.
Founding Scientific Editor for the world’s leading journal in the field, Green Chemistry, holds the Chair of Industrial & Applied Chemistry and is President of the Green Chemistry Network.
James has led the Green Chemistry movement in Europe over the last 10 years and has won numerous awards and distinctions including the 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Environment Prize.
Colin Tudge
A biologist by education and a writer by trade with a lifelong interest in the philosophy of science, politics, and agriculture.
Has worked for New Scientist, BBC Radio 3 and Farmers Weekly and published about 15 books on natural history, evolution, food and farming – of which the latest, published in 2011, is ‘Good Food for Everyone Forever’.
In 2009, together with his wife, he founded the Campaign for Real Farming and the College for Enlightened Agriculture.
Dr. Michel Pimbert
eam Leader for Agroecology and Food Sovereignty at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
An agricultural ecologist by training, he previously worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India, the University François Rabelais de Tours in France, and the World Wide Fund for Nature in Switzerland.
Has also done research for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).
Jean-Marc Jancovici
One of France’s most prominent energy experts, and co-founder of the Carbone 4 consultancy which provides strategic counselling on energy-related matters.
He played a key role in the build-up to the French “Grenelle of Environnement”, a national conference bringing together the government, local authorities, trade unions, business and voluntary sectors to draw up a plan of action of concrete measures.
He is a guest lecturer at ParisTech Mines (engineering school) and the author of several books.
Walter R. Stahel
Walter R. Stahel is head of risk management at the Geneva Association, Switzerland. In 1982 he founded the Product-Life Institute, Europe’s oldest sustainability-based consultancy. His seminal 1976 research report to the European Commission in Brussels ‘The Potential for Substituting Manpower for Energy’, written with Genevieve Reday, sketched the vision of an economy in loops (or circular economy) and its impact on job creation, economic competitiveness, resource savings and waste prevention. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK and a frequent guest lecturer for Tohoku University’s postgraduate department, Japan. He has been a lecturer at UTT Troyes and the Ecole de Mines Fontainebleau for many years on the circular eonomy and the “économie de fonctionnalité”. An alumnus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Stahel has authored several prize- winning academic papers. In 1989/1993, he co-authored The Limits to Certainty with Orio Giarini, which was published in six languages.
Paul Turner
A Harvard Business School graduate, Paul is Lloyds Banking Group’s Community Investment & Sustainable Development Director. In 2007 he developed the business case for establishing a sustainable development team in the Corporate Markets Division (Wholesale). He also developed initiatives to enable colleagues to engage with community based organisations. Taking on a Group-wide role in 2011, Paul is now responsible for leading the team developing and implementing the Group’s community investment and sustainable development strategy. This involves working across the multiple Group brands and divisions, working closely with the Bank’s charitable Foundations and also working closely with customers, NGOs, charities and community based organisations, the Government, investors and suppliers. Paul is a Tutor with the University of Cambridge’s Programme for Sustainability Leadership, a member of the UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, Business in the Community’s Environment Leadership Steering Group and he is responsible for the Lloyds Banking Group’s environmental action plan.’