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Rt Hon Ben Bradshaw MP

Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport

 

Ben Bradshaw was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in June 2009. He was elected as MP for Exeter on 1 May 1997.

Prior to that Ben was Minister of State for Health Services and with additional responsibility as Minister for the South West at the Department of Health  (July 2007 to June 2009); Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare at Defra, joining that Department initially as Nature Conservation and Fisheries Minister in June 2003;  Parliamentary Secretary the Privy Council Office where he was appointed in May 2002. Previously he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

Before his election as MP for Exeter Ben worked as a journalist, training on the Express & Echo in Exeter before working for BBC Radio Devon and going on to be the BBC's Berlin correspondent.

Born on 30 August, 1960, Ben Bradshaw was educated at Thorpe St Andrew School, Norwich and Sussex University.

He is a keen cyclist and enjoys walking, particularly on Dartmoor, music and cooking. He lives in Exeter and London with his partner.

“No one these days can deny the case for sustainability and conservation in just about everything we do.  The importance of it – and the  imperative behind it – become more pressing as each day goes by.  So I am pleased and proud to be backing this event, and I can’t wait to find out more about the finalists and, of course, to see who’s won.”
Rt Hon Ben Bradshaw MP
Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport

Jonathon Porritt CBE,

Founder Director of Forum for the Future & Former Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

 

Jonathon Porritt has been an advocate for sustainable development for the last thirty-five years.  He studied at Oxford, became a comprehensive school teacher, and entered politics to become Chair of the fledgling UK Ecology (now Green) Party in 1978.  He became Director of Friends of the Earth in 1984 until 1991.  In 1996 he co-founded Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity.  In 2000 he was appointed Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission.  He is also Co-Director of The Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme, and a Board member of the South West  Regional Development Agency.  His latest books are Capitalism As If The World Matters (Earthscan, revised 2007), Globalism & Regionalism (Black Dog 2008).


www.jonathonporritt.com

www.sd-commission.gov.uk     

www.cpi.cam.ac/bep

“In a world of imploding certainties and deepest doom and gloom, we need more than ever to be celebrating the work of those who are already building that better, more sustainable world that is emerging from the chaos – and that’s exactly what the Green Awards are all about”.
Jonathon Porritt
Founder Director of Forum for the Future and Former Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission