Stanley Johnson with his wife, Jenny (Photo by Roy Riley) Stanley Johnson with his wife, Jenny (Photo by Roy Riley)
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About Stanley Johnson

Stanley is above all a West Countryman. He was born in Cornwall in August 1940, and educated at Ravenswood School, near Tiverton, Devon, Sherborne School, Dorset and Exeter College, Oxford, where he won a Stapeldon Scholarship in Classics. Since 1951 his family has farmed on Exmoor, on the Devon-Somerset border, and Stanley still manages the farm there today.

Stanley Johnson at home - photo by Roy RileyOn leaving Oxford in 1963, Stanley was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to the United States in 1963. He is a former Conservative member of the European Parliament (MEP) where he served (1979-1984) as Vice Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection.

He has also worked in the European Commission (1973-1979) as Head of the Prevention of Pollution division and (1984-1994) as Senior Adviser to DG Environment and as Director of Energy Policy.

Before joining the Commission, Stanley served on the staff of the World Bank and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Stanley has been an adviser to Price Waterhouse Coopers, a director of ERM, an environmental consultancy, and a trustee of the Earthwatch Institute. He is currently a Trustee of Plantlife International and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, as well as being an environmental adviser to Jupiter Asset Management.

He has had ten books published dealing with environmental issues, including the Politics of the Environment, the Earth Summit and the Environmental Policy of the European Communities. He has also had nine novels published, including The Commissioner which was made into a film starring John Hurt.

In 1984 he was awarded the Greenpeace Prize for Outstanding Services to the Environment and in the same year the RSPCA Richard Martin award for services to animal welfare. In 1962 he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry.

Stanley has four children by his first marriage to the painter Charlotte Johnson-Wahl, including Boris, a Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, MP for Henley and Editor of the Spectator. He also has two children, Julia and Maximilian, by his second marriage to Jennifer.

 

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You can email Stanley at stanley@stanleyjohnson.com.