Dr. R Kerry Turner

Dr. R Kerry Turner is the Director of CSERGE (Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment) and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK.

He serves on the Norfolk Broads Authority, the East of England Sustainable Development Round Table, the UK Environment Agency's Anglia Region Environment Protection Advisory Committee and their Estuaries Advisory Group.

He previously served on the Board of the National Rivers Authority and was the Chairman of the Foresight Panel on Natural Resources and the Environment at the Office of Science and Technology until April 1999. He was a member of the UK Climate Change Impacts Review Group for the former UK Department of the Environment (presently Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). He was a lead author with the IPCC Working Group II and UNEP's Biodiversity Assessment Panel. In 2000, Kerry Turner was awarded a CBE for his services to sustainable development.

His research has focused on environmental economics, coastal zone and wetland management, conservation economics and waste management research. He has published widely on these subjects including a number of best-selling texts.