Radio and TV
Jules Pretty makes regular contributions to local and national BBC and World Service radio networks (e.g. to BBC Essex, BBC Suffolk, Radio 4 Food Programme, R4 Today Programme, R4 Costing the Earth, Radio 4 Open Country).
He is occasional contributor to television documentaries and news (BBC1, BBC East, BBC South, Border TV), and occasional contributor to written news media (approx 1-2 per year) and magazines (approx 1-2 per year)
He was presenter and writer of two-part radio series “Ploughing Eden” for BBC Radio 4 (August 1999), co-writer and presenter in BBC TV Correspondent Series The Magic Bean (June 2001), and a panellist for Radio 4’s The Moral Maze (2007).
Katie Derham talks to Jules Pretty on Food Radio (listen now)
BBC Local Food Greener than Organic (full article)
BBC The Magic Bean (full article)
Memberships,
Appointments, Boards
Deputy Chair, UK Govt’s
Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) (1999-2009)
Chair, Colchester
Anti-Poverty Forum (2000-02)
A D White
Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, USA (2001-2007)
Chief
Editor, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (2002- )
Working
Group on CGIAR Science Council (2002-03) & Selection Panel for members
of Science Panel (2003, 2004, 2006)
Member
of International Jury for the Slow Food Award (2002- )
Member
of UK government’s GM Science Panel (2002-04)
Member
of English Nature’s Social & Econ Advisory Group (2003-06); member of
Natural England’s Science Council (2007- )
Member
of International Advisory Cttee, College of Humanities & Devt, China
Agric. Univ, Beijing (2003-2007)
Fellow
of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and
Commerce (Jan 04). FRSA
Member of
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Advisory Council, Univ of British
Colombia (2004-2006)
Member
of HEFCE 2008 RAE Sub-Panel 16 (2005-2008)
Trustee
of Essex Wildlife Trust (2005-2009), Vice-President (2009- )
Trustee
of Operation Wallacea Trust (2005-2009)
Member
of University of Essex Council (2005-08)
Member
of Swiss National Science Foundation Expert Panel NRP 59 (2006- )
Member
of Lead Expert Group of Foresight Project Food and Farming Futures
(2008- )
Member
of Royal Society working group on Biological Approaches to Improving
Crop Production (2008-09)
Chairman
of Essex Rural Commission (2008-09)
Member
of Expert Panel for UK National Ecosystem Assessment (2009- )
Member
of GFAR Global Author Team for GCARD, Montpellier (2009-10)
Member
of Royal Society working group on Population and Consumption (2010-11)
