Panel 2 Speaker

Tom Burke is Founding Director of E3G in London,
and Adviser on Climate Change to the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom.

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1982 - 1991 Director of the Green Alliance, London
1988 - 1990 Secretary-General of the Bergen 1990 Environment NGO Conference
1988 - 1991 Executive-Director of Friends of the Earth
  Member of the Executive Committee of the European Environmental Bureau
1990 - 1993 Member of the Board of the World Energy Council's Commission“Energy for Tomorrow's World”
1991 - 1997 Special Advisor to three Secretaries of State for the Environment
1993 Appointed to United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 roll of honour
1996 - 1998 Member of the OECD's High Level Panel on the Environment
1997 Appointed CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for services to the environment
1997 - 2001 Environmental Advisor (part time) to BP plc
1999 - 2005 Member of the Council of English Nature, the statutory advisor to the British Government on biodiversity
Present Positions
2007 – Fellow of the Energy Institute
Founding Director of E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism, London
Adviser on Climate Change to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom
Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto plc.
Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London
Chair of the Review of Environmental Governance in Northern Ireland
Co-chairman of the British-German Environment Forum


 

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