Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society in the Department of Biological
Sciences at the University of Essex, where he was Head of Department from 2004-08. He is
a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Arts, former Deputy-Chair of the
UK government’s Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE), and has
served on advisory committees for a number of government departments. He is a regular
speaker, contributor to media, and presenter of the 1999 BBC Radio 4 series Ploughing
Eden, a contributor and writer for the 2001 BBC TV Correspondent programme The Magic
Bean, and a panellist in 2007 for Radio 4’s The Moral Maze. He received a 1997 international
award from the Indian Ecological Society, was appointed A D White Professor-at-Large by
Cornell University from 2001, and is Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural
Sustainability. He received an OBE in 2006 for services to sustainable agriculture, and an
honorary degree from Ohio State University in 2009. His website is at www.julespretty.com.
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