Lloyd Timberlake is an expert on sustainable development. As a writer and journalist, he has reported from more than 65 countries, mainly on environment and development issues. His articles have appeared in most of the world’s newspapers. He has served as science editor for Reuters News Agency, writer-in-residence at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London, chairman of the board of the Alqueria Plantation in Mallorca, Spain, and most recently as the director of communications for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a Geneva-based coalition of about 200 of the world’s most powerful companies, with a combined annual turnover of some $6 trillion..

He has written prize-winning books in his own name (Africa in Crisis, Only One Earth, When the Bough Breaks) and books for organizations such as the World Commission on Environment and Development and the UN Environment Programme. He has been a visiting academic fellow at Imperial College, London, and at New York University Law School, and a professor at St Mary’s College, Maryland. After graduating from Yale University, he taught literature and chicken farming to members of Southern African revolutionary parties and served as honorary commandant of the Tanzanian Mounted Police Force.

He has appeared as juggler onstage with the Rolling Stones and in the House Commons. He now lives in Washington DC and kayaks in the Chesapeake Bay.