External Advisory Board
The External Advisory Board (EAB) for the SIIL is competency-based and plans to regularly meet virtually and in-person. The EAB is actively involved in the evaluation of concept notes and full proposals for research sub-awards and providing the SIIL with scientific guidance. Additionally, the EAB aides the management entity in identifying new partnership and funding opportunities.
Meet the EAB
Professor Jules Pretty
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Environment and Society
University of Essex
Professor Jules Pretty is the Chair of the SIIL External Advisory Board. He is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex, and Professor of Environment and Society. His 18 books include This Luminous Coast (2011), Nature and Culture (2010), The Earth Only Endures (2007), and Agri-Culture (2002). He is a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Arts, former Deputy-Chair of the government's Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, and has served on advisory committees for a number of government departments and research councils. He was a member of two Royal Society working groups that published Reaping the Benefits (2009) and People and the Planet (2012), and was a member of the UK government Foresight project on Global Food and Farming Futures (2011). He is the founding Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. He received an OBE in 2006 for services to sustainable agriculture, and an honorary degree from Ohio State University in 2009. More details can be found at www.julespretty.com.