Richard Sandbrook

John Richard Sandbrook OBE (13 August 1946 – 11 December 2005) was Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development from 1976 to 1980.

Sandbrook was born in Bath, the son of a naval officer.^[1] He was educated at Dauntsey's School and the University of East Anglia.^[2] He was President of the Union of UEA Students in 1967/8.^[3] For five years he was an accountant at Arthur Andersen.^[1]

He was a co-founder of Friends of the Earth UK, and served as Managing Director from 1974 to 1976. He was awarded an OBE in the 1990 New Year Honours. He was a non-executive director of the Eden Project in Cornwall, featuring biomes and gardens, from 1999 to 2003.^[1]

He married Mary Wray in 1970; they had two sons.^[1]^[3]

Sandbrook died of cancer at age 59.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Jonathon Porritt (16 December 2005). "Obitury: Richard Sandbrook". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
^ "Obituaries - Richard Sandbrook". The Independent. 13 December 2005. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
^ ^a ^b "UEA graduates remembered - Richard Sandbrook (BIO65)" (PDF). Ziggurat. University of East Anglia. 2006. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2006.