Pro-Vice-Chancellors
Professor Jules Pretty OBE, FRSA, FSB
Deputy-Vice-Chancellor
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability and Resources)
Faculty of Science and Engineering
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Profile
At a glance...
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability & Resources).
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor responsible for Faculty of Science
and Engineering.
- Professor of Environment and Society at the University
of Essex.
- Head of the Department of Biological Sciences from 2004
to 2008.
- Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Royal Society
of Arts.
- Member of the Lead Expert Group for the UK Government's
Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures Project.
- Member of the Expert Panel for UK National Ecosystem
Assessment.
Biography:
Professor Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the
University of Essex. He is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability and
Resources) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor responsible for the Faculty of Science
and Engineering.
Between 2004 and 2008, Professor Pretty was Head of the Department of
Biological Sciences.
His books include This Luminous Coast ( 2011),
Nature and Culture (co-authored, 2010), The Earth Only
Endures (2007), Environment (4 vols, ed 2006), The
Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture (2005, ed), The
Pesticide Detox (2005, ed), Agri-Culture (2002) and
Regenerating Agriculture (1995).
He is a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Arts,
former Deputy-Chair of the Government's Advisory Committee on Releases to
the Environment (ACRE), and has served on advisory committees for a number
of government departments.
He is currently member of the Lead Expert Group for the UK Government's
Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures Project, member of the Expert
Panel for UK National Ecosystem Assessment and member of BBSRC's Strategy
Advisory Board. He was recently Chairman of the Essex Rural
Commission, member of the Royal Society working group on Biological
Approaches to Improving Crop Production (2008 to 2009), and member of the
2008 RAE Sub-Panel 16.
He is a regular contributor to the media. He was presenter of the BBC
Radio 4 series Ploughing Eden in 1999, a contributor and writer for
the BBC TV Correspondent programme The Magic Bean in 2001, and a
panellist in 2007 for Radio 4's The Moral Maze.
In 1997 he received an international award from the Indian Ecological
Society, was appointed A D White Professor-at-Large by Cornell University in
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.
More information:
Professor
Pretty's departmental web page – includes full details on his research
and publications.
www.julespretty.com - Professor
Pretty's personal website.