Contributors

Jeff Kanipe is the author of Chasing Hubble's Shadow and Cosmic Connection.
Photo credit: Nancy November Sloane 2012

Kaja Kallas has been the Prime Minister of Estonia since 2021, the first woman to serve in the role. The leader of Estonia's Reform Party since 2018, she was a member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2018. Before entering politics, she was a lawyer specialising in European competition law.

G. T. Karber is the award-winning creator of Murdle, the global bestselling puzzle sensation. He grew up in Arkansas, the son of a judge and a civil rights attorney, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a degree in mathematics and English literature, before gaining an MFA from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His books have sold in over thirty languages and he is one of only three non-British authors ever to have published a no. 1 Christmas bestseller in the UK.

Jenny Joseph was born in 1932 in Birmingham, England. She won a scholarship to read English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford, coming top of her year. She published her first collection of poetry, The Unlooked-for Season, in 1960, which went on to win the Eric Gregory Award. Joseph's most famous poem, 'Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple', first appeared in her 1974 collection Rose in the Afternoon. It has remained popular ever since and was voted Britain's favourite modern poem in a 2006 BBC poll. In 1995 Joseph won the Forward Prize for her poem 'In Honour of Love' and her experimental fiction work Persephone won the 1986 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. Jenny Joseph died in 2018, aged 85.

Robert H Waterman is an internationally known business executive, speaker and author. He now directs his own company, The Waterman Group, after spending 21 years at the management consultancy firm McKinsey & Co.

Tony Juniper is an independent sustainability and environment adviser, including as Special Advisor with the Prince's Charities International Sustainability Unit and as a Senior Associate with the University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership. He is a founder member of the Robertsbridge Group that advises international companies. He speaks and writes on many aspects of sustainability and is the author of several books, including the award winning Parrots of the World, Spix's Macaw and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet? He was a co-author of Harmony, with HRH The Prince of Wales and Ian Skelly.
His book, What has Nature ever done for us? was published in January 2013. He began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International. From 1990 he worked at Friends of the Earth and was the organisation's executive director from 2003-2008 and was the Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000-2008.
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Robert Jones was born in Gloucester in 1957 and read Philosophy and English at Cambridge. He is a director at Wolff Olins, one of the world's best brand consulting firms, and has worked as a consultant in corporate communications for 16 years, with companies such as Andersen Consulting, Cameron McKenna and the National Trust. He lectures at Oxford Business School on marketing.

Lucy Jones is the author of Losing Eden and Foxes Unearthed. Especially interested in the psychological relationship beween humans and the rest of nature, she spends as much time as possible outside with her children.

Rita Jordan has taught children with autism and severe learning difficulties in nursery and mainstream schools, and is an Emeritus Professor in Autism Studies at the University of Birmingham. In 2007 she was awarded an OBE for her services to special needs education and in 2013 she was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the National Autistic Society.

Thierry Jonquet was born in Paris in 1954. An exponent of the hardboiled style of French noir influenced by post-May 1968 politics, Jonquet is one of France's best-known crime writers. Tarantula was published as Mygale by Gallimard in 1999 and by City Lights Publishers in the US in 2002.