Professor Stephen Martin: BSc (Hons); PhD; Hon FSE; FRSB; F.I.Env Sci; FRSA.
CHANGE AGENTS – Co-Founder and President. Steve is a passionate advocate for learning for sustainability and has spent over 40 years facilitating and supporting social and environmental change in education and business for a more sustainable future. For nearly a decade, he was a member of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Further and Higher Education (specialising in agricultural and science education in the East and West Midlands), with national responsibility for Environmental Education. He served as a special advisor to the Secretary of State in the Department of the Environment in drafting the education and training sections of HM Government’s first white paper on the Environment — This Common Inheritance. This led to the formation by the then Department for Education and Science of a high-level committee — the Toyne Committee — to review Environmental Education in Further and Higher Education. He was the founding chair of the Higher Education Academy’s Sustainability Advisory Group. For five years, he served as an Education for Sustainability policy advisor to the UK’s National Commission for UNESCO. He was formerly Director of Learning at Forum for the Future, the leading sustainability charity in the UK. He is a former Trustee of the Worldwide Fund for Nature and an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Environment, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. From 2016 until 2019, he was a member of the UKSSD’s Steering Group created to develop a UK-wide progress report (Measuring Up) on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He repeated this progress review (Measuring Up 2) for the UN Global Compact Network in 2022. Since 2021, he has been supporting Nottingham University with its sustainability and learning strategy, and in partnership with Derbyshire County Council and Derbyshire Dales District Council, he is creating a community-led renewable energy programme to support their Net Zero Climate targets. He is a keen cyclist and walks as often as possible in the Derbyshire Dales.
