Monday 14 July 2008 afternoon ceremony (Cornwall)
 Jonathon Porritt (LLD)
Jonathon Porritt, Co-
Founder of Forum for the
Future, is an eminent
writer, broadcaster and
commentator on
sustainable development.
Established in 1996, Forum
for the Future is now the
UK’s leading sustainable
development charity, with
70 staff and over 100
partner organisations,
including some of the
world’s leading companies.
Jonathon was appointed by the Prime Minister as Chairman
of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in July
2000. This is the Government’s principal source of
independent advice across the whole sustainable
development agenda. In addition, he has been a member of
the Board of the South West Regional Development
Agency since December 1999, and is Co-Director of The
Prince of Wales’ Business and Environment Programme
which runs Senior Executives’ Seminars in Cambridge,
Salzburg, South Africa and the USA. In 2005 he became a
Non-Executive Director of Wessex Water, and a Trustee of
the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.
He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth
(1984-90); co-chair of the Green Party (1980-83) of which
he is still a member; chairman of UNED – UK (1993-96);
chairman of Sustainability South West, the South West
Round Table for Sustainable Development (1999- 2001);
and a Trustee of WWF UK (1991-2005).
His latest book, Capitalism As If The World Matters (Earthscan), was published in November 2005.
Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to
environmental protection.
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