Dr Tony Juniper is an independent sustainability and environment adviser, including Special Advisor with the Prince of Wales's International Sustainability Unit, Fellow with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and co-founder of sustainability consultancy group, Robertsbridge.
He is also President of the Wildlife Trusts, President of the Society for the Environment and a trustee of Fauna and Flora International and Resurgence-Ecologist. Dr Juniper speaks and writes widely on conservation and sustainability themes and is the author of many books, including the multi-award winning best-seller What has Nature ever done for us? which was published in 2013.
He began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International. From 1990, he worked at Friends of the Earth, initially leading the campaign for the tropical rainforests and from 2003-2008, and was the organisation's executive director. From 2000-2008, he was Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International.
Dr Juniper was the first recipient of the Charles and Miriam Rothschild medal (2009) and was awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the Universities of Bristol and Plymouth (2013). In 2016, he was declared as a Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity St David. His latest book, What is really happening to our planet?: the facts simply explained, will be published in June 2016.
