Martin Wright Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

I have 25 years’ experience as a journalist, editor, speaker and adviser on environmental solutions and sustainable futures. Good at communicating sustainability crisply, clearly and with a complete lack of bullshit, and at bringing complex issues down to earth. Enjoy helping others acquire and apply these skills.JOURNALISM / EDITINGContributed to The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Times, New Scientist, The Times of India and more. Broadcast on radio and TV, including the… Show more I have 25 years’ experience as a journalist, editor, speaker and adviser on environmental solutions and sustainable futures. Good at communicating sustainability crisply, clearly and with a complete lack of bullshit, and at bringing complex issues down to earth. Enjoy helping others acquire and apply these skills.JOURNALISM / EDITINGContributed to The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Times, New Scientist, The Times of India and more. Broadcast on radio and TV, including the BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera and independent television. Have interviewed everyone from Paul Polman to Terry Leahy; David Cameron to the Archbishop of Canterbury.I was Founding Editor of Green Futures (now rebranded as the Futures Centre), and I'm a Director of the recently relaunched Positive News (specialising in “good journalism about the good stuff that’s happening in the world”).Awards include Science and Environment Journalist of the Year.SPEAKING My TED talk on ‘The New Environmentalism’ topped the bill at the 2014 TEDx event in London: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDo2mx5aBts&list=PLsRNoUx8w3rNXcBCmETUz-uICayZayaSoI've chaired and spoken at events for The Guardian, Forum for the Future, the RSA, the Confederation of Indian Industry and many others in London, New York, Delhi, Mumbai, Beijing and elsewhere. ADVOCACY / CONSULTINGI was Director of Forum for the Future (India) in 2013-15, successfully launching Forum in the sub-continent and developing a raft of sustainability work there in partnership with (among others) Tata, Unilever, Aditya Birla Group, Marks & Spencer, DfID and the Government of India.Other organisations I've worked with include Greenpeace, WWF, Sainsbury’s, BT, Shell, BP, Unilever, Ecotricity and many more.Visiting Assessor for the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.AFFILIATIONSFellow of the RSA; Affiliate of Forum for the Future and Futerra. Advisory roles include Collectively, Ethical Corporation and Smart Villages. Show less

At Forum for the Future, I was Editor in Chief of Green Futures Magazine (now reborn as The Futures Centre), then launch Director of Forum's work in India.