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== Clive Bates == | |||
=Clive Bates | = About = | ||
[https://www.clivebates.com/ The Counterfactual is the personal site for Clive Bates.] | |||
==Biography== | He is now establishing my own new enterprise based on thinking, communicating and doing in support of progressive causes – providing a benign but forceful challenge to orthodoxy in environment, energy, public health, sustainability and international development. | ||
Until recently he was a civil servant, a Director General with the Welsh Government then on secondment to the Department of Energy and Climate Change. However, all views on this site are strictly my own – and I do not speak here for past employers. | |||
These are my employers and institutions to date: | |||
* Department for Energy and Climate Change | |||
* Welsh Government | |||
* UNEP Sudan | |||
* Environment Agency | |||
* Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit – Cabinet Office | |||
* ASH – Action on Smoking and Health | |||
* International Institute for Energy Conservation (Europe) | |||
* Greenpeace | |||
* Imperial College | |||
* IBM (UK) Ltd | |||
* Emmanuel College, Cambridge | |||
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/clivebates My profile on LinkedIn has a more complete CV] | |||
== Biography == | |||
Clive Bates has had a diverse career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. He started out with the IT company, IBM, then switched career to work in the environment movement. From 1997-2003 he was Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK), campaigning to reduce the harms caused by tobacco. In 2003 he joined Prime Minister Blair’s Strategy Unit as a civil servant and worked in senior roles in the public sector and for the United Nations in Sudan. He is now Director of Counterfactual, a consulting and advocacy practice focussed on a pragmatic approach to sustainability and public health. | Clive Bates has had a diverse career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. He started out with the IT company, IBM, then switched career to work in the environment movement. From 1997-2003 he was Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK), campaigning to reduce the harms caused by tobacco. In 2003 he joined Prime Minister Blair’s Strategy Unit as a civil servant and worked in senior roles in the public sector and for the United Nations in Sudan. He is now Director of Counterfactual, a consulting and advocacy practice focussed on a pragmatic approach to sustainability and public health. | ||