Roger Martin is chair to the Board of Trustees,

Population Matters Population Matters, formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust, is a UK-based charity that addresses population size and its effects on environmental sustainability. It considers population growth as a major contributor to environmental degr ...

(formerly the Optimum Population Trust) and President of the Somerset Branch,

Campaign to Protect Rural England CPRE, The Countryside Charity, formerly known by names such as the ''Council for the Preservation of Rural England'' and the ''Council for the Protection of Rural England'', is a charity in England with over 40,000 members and supporters. Forme ...

Education

Westminster school (God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Hea ...

, Brasenose College, Oxford,

Career

* VSO Northern Rhodesia, 1959–60; *Civil rights campaigner in

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, 1963; *Founder member of

Campaign Against Racial Discrimination The Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD) was a British organization, founded in 1964 and which lasted until 1967, that lobbied for race relations legislation. The group's formation was inspired by a visit by Martin Luther King Jr. to Londo ...

; *

Commonwealth Office The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs was a British Cabinet minister responsible for dealing with the United Kingdom's relations with members of the Commonwealth of Nations (its former colonies). The minister's department was the Common ...

, 1964–66; *Second Secretary,

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, 1967; Saigon,1968–70; *First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1971–74; *Geneva, 1975–79; *Seconded to Department of Trade, as Head of

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North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

Branch, *Deputy High Commissioner,

Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

, 1983–86, resigned in fury; *Author 'The Price of Apartheid' (Pub EIU 1988); *Visiting Fellow

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

*Member of National Executive, VSO, 1988–96; *Director,

Somerset Wildlife Trust Somerset Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the county of Somerset, England. The trust, which was established in 1964, aims to safeguard the county's wildlife and wild places for this and future generations and manages almost 80 nature ...

, 1988-2001 Vice President from 2001, *Member, Flood Defence and Pollution Committees, Environment Agency, 1990–2012; * SW panel, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1993–97; *SW Committee,

Heritage Lottery Fund The National Lottery Heritage Fund, formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom. History The fund's predecessor bodies were ...

, 2001–06. *Founder member,

South West Regional Assembly The South West Regional Assembly (SWRA) was the regional chamber for South West England, established in 1999. It was wound up in December 2008. Its functions were taken on by the Strategic Leaders' Board, the executive arm of the newly establish ...

, 1998. * Exmoor National Park Authority: Member,1998-2008; Trustee, 2003–07. *SW Regional Chair,

2001–2006; national Trustee 2003–07; President Somerset Branch 2006- *President, Mendip Society, 2001-09

HARDtalk

On 13 December 2010, he appeared on the BBC News programme "

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" to discuss his Trust's stance.

Honours

He was made an Honorary Doctor of Science (Hon.DSc) by the

University of the West of England The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a public research university, located in and around Bristol, England. The institution was know as the Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; it received university status in 1992 and ...

in 2001.

References

External links

Roger Martin
on BBC's ''

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Roger Martin, Chair (Population Matters)Roger Martin profile at Battle of Ideas"Overpopulation is the biggest threat to our climate"
"The Great Debate UK", ''

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'' 16 October 2009
"the Optimum Population Trust"
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