Tony Juniper has become the first president of Society for the Environment that received a Royal Charter in 2004.
It awards and sets the standards for the Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) qualification in the UK, which is available to members of the Society’s 23 partner organisations. These partners include a diverse range of membership bodies sharing a common vision of delivering sustainability through environmental professionalism.
Juniper says: “The Society fulfils a vitally important role by setting the standards for professionals working across a range of sectors. It has shown how professional bodies from widely different specialisms can work together on a common agenda.”
A renowned environmental campaigner, he is an established face on the environmental circuit having been director of Friends of the Earth in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between 2003 and 2008 and the vice chair of FoE International from 2001 to 2008.
He has also written a series of book covering various ecological issues, holds a number of positions with diverse institutions as well as being a regular media commentator on environmental matters.
Alex Galloway, the Society’s chief executive, says: “To have somebody of Tony’s calibre as our president will help us take the status of
Chartered Environmentalists to a new level of recognition and reach into new areas.”
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