John Spears

John Spears, "now retired, graduated from the universities of Wales, Oxford and British Columbia. He has spent most of his life working on tropical forest conservation and related environmental problems . Appointed as Conservator of Forests in Kenya in the early 1950's he later became Executive Director of the East Africa Forest Industrial Development Corporation. He joined the World Bank in 1966, initially as its Senior Forest Adviser and then as a Policy Adviser to its Environmental Department. In the early 1980's he joined the Shell International Company Non-Traditional Business Division . He was a Science Adviser to the CGIAR during a period of expansion that lead to incorporation of CIFOR and ICRAF into the CG system. Since retirement he has acted as Secretary General of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, Coordinator of the World Bank/ WWF Alliance and as an independent adviser and consultant to WWF, IUCN, CIFOR, UNEP, Transparency International and most recently to Forest Trends."


 * Fellow, Forest Trends