Tom Burke
Tom Burke is Co-Founder and Director, Third Generation Environmentalism, and an Honorary Professor at Imperial and University College, London.
He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He was Environmental Policy Advisor to Rio Tinto plc (part time) 1996 – 2016 and served as Senior Advisor to the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change from 2006 -12. He was formerly Executive Director of Friends of the Earth and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Environmental Bureau 1988 – 91. He was the Secretary-General of the Bergen 1990 Environment NGO Conference 1988 – 90. 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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