Green Gown Awards 2015 – Sustainability Professional Award - Dr Aled Jones - Highly Commended

Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI), Anglia Ruskin University

Dr Aled Jones is the inaugural Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University. Over the past four years he has built the GSI from a good idea into an internationally recognised brand, with a group of 40 individuals and external income of almost £400,000 per year.

Aled is one of the acknowledged global leaders in public-private finance related to the Green Economy. His work in climate finance has been recognised by the State of California and he has received a key to the city of North Little Rock, USA.

In 2013 Anglia Ruskin University won the International Sustainable Campus Network Award for integrating sustainability and the GSI was shortlisted for the EAUC Green Gown awards in two categories and the Lloyds of London Science of Risk Awards.

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