Charles Secrett is Director of Friends of the Earth. He has written extensively on a wide range of environmental topics and sits on the Advisory Council of the Environmental Law Foundation in the UK, and on the Advisory Board of The Ecologist magazine. He is also on the Board of the Carolina Environment Programme at the University of North Carolina, US.

Recent articles

The influence of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) - on governments, corporations, and public opinion - has not been matched by a clear understanding of their own role in the global order. What is their relationship to power? Are they agents of positive change, or merely of protest?