JOHN GORDON is a former diplomat; environmentalist, born in 1940 (near London). After Cambridge, Yale and LSE, he joined the UK foreign service and served in Budapest, Geneva, Yaounde, Brussels and Paris (UK Ambassador to UNESCO). Subsequently Deputy and Policy Director, Global Environmental Research Centre (London), Convenor of the UK civil society involvement in the 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit, member of UK National Commission for UNESCO, President of the Council for Education in World Citizenship, adviser to and activist in various environmental groups. He is married to Jungian psychotherapist, photographer and sculptor Elizabeth and lives at Wallingford, Great Britain.