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Charles Secrett
Charles Secrett is one of Britain's leading environmentalists. He frequently appears on national TV and radio news and current affairs programmes, and has written extensively on a wide range of environmental topics. He delivers keynote speeches to a wide variety of audiences and regularly works with local environmental groups.
Charles has worked on environmental research and investigation projects in Malaysia, Nigeria, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. He is a member of the Government's Commission for Sustainable Development, and sits on the Advisory Boards for The Ecologist magazine and the Environmental Law Foundation in Britain, and for the Environment Programme of the University of North Carolina in the United States. In 1999, The Observer newspaper ranked him the 36th most influential person in Britain in its annual ‘Power 300 List'; in 2000, he was ranked 200th.
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- Member – Board of London Development Agency, and Chair – LDA Health and Sustainability Advisory Group (2004 - current)
- Chair – Board of Triodos Bank Renewable Energy Fund (2004 – current)
- Member – Advisory Board of Environmental Law Foundation (2002 – current
- Trustee – Board of The Building Exploratory, Hackney (2004 – current)
- Vice-President - London Wildlife Trust (2006 – current)
- Executive Director - Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland (1993 - 2003)
- Member - UK Roundtable on Sustainable Development and UK Sustainable Development Commission (1993 – 2003)
- University of North Carolina, John Motley Morehead Scholarship; B.A. English and American Literature – Hons. (1972 - 77)
