Adrian Phillips
Keynote speaker
Morecambe Bay
Partnership Conference
8 Oct 2011
Adrian
Phillips CBE was trained as a planner and geographer. He worked in
London for the UK government, and then in Kenya and Switzerland for
the United Nations Environment Programme and IUCN - the
International Union for Conservation of Nature. During his 11 years
as Director General of the Countryside Commission (1981-1992), the
Commission developed major new initiatives such as Groundwork, the
National Forest, the Community Forests, Environmentally Sensitive
Areas, the Thames trail and reviews of National Parks and AONBs. He
held a professorial post at Cardiff University from 1992 to 2002:
then, and subsequently, he has written numerous articles on
conservation and landscape, and lectured widely on these topics.
Between 1994 and 2000, he chaired the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, the global network of protected area managers and planners. During this time, he was closely involved in the development of the European Landscape Convention. Between 2000 and 2004 he worked closely with IUCN on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. He remains involved in aspects of international work relating to landscape.
Since 1992 he has served on the boards of the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, WWF-UK, the Woodland Trust, CPRE and RSPB, and chaired the Gloucestershire Environmental Trust. He is currently on the board of the National Trust and a Ministerial appointee to the Cotswold Conservation Board, as well as a Vice President of the Campaign for National Parks, of the Scottish Campaign for National Parks and of the British Association of Nature Conservationists. He is also an adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund on landscape matters, and has assessed, mentored and monitored a number of Landscape Partnership schemes. He is a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a Fellow of the Landscape Institute.
