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Roger Martin (diplomat)

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Roger J.A. Martin
Born (1941-01-21) 21 January 1941 (age 83)
SpouseAnn Cornwell (d 2009)
Children1

Roger Martin is chair to the Board of Trustees, Population Matters (formerly the Optimum Population Trust)[1][2] and President of the Somerset Branch, Campaign to Protect Rural England.[2]

Education

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Westminster school, Brasenose College, Oxford,[2]

Career

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HARDtalk

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On 13 December 2010, he appeared on the BBC News programme "HARDtalk" to discuss his Trust's stance.[6]

... of course we have to change consumption habits, we have to address technology, we have to get used to a steady-state economy with reduced levels of consumption, radically reduced for all us rich countries, we've got to do these things, they're very hard, but we've also got to stabilise our numbers – if we don't, all these other policies are ultimately going to fail to produce a sustainable world.

Honours

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He was made an Honorary Doctor of Science (Hon.DSc) by the University of the West of England in 2001.[3][4][7]

References

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  1. ^ "Board". populationmatters.org/. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Who's who 2014 (166th/2014. ed.). London: A. & C. Black. 2014. p. 1435. ISBN 978-1408-1-8119-5.
  3. ^ a b c d "Battle of Ideas 2010 | speaker | Roger Martin".
  4. ^ a b c d "Mensa at Cambridge 2011, 'Population'" (PDF). Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  5. ^ Martin, Roger (1988). Southern Africa : the price of apartheid, a political risk analysis. London: Economist Intelligence Unit. ISBN 0850582369.
  6. ^ "Smaller families are better for the planet". 13 December 2010.
  7. ^ "Honorary graduate overview". uwe.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
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