Engineering Ethics biographies

Sara Parkin OBE, Forum for the Future

Sara Parkin is Principal Associate of The Sustainability Literacy Project, and Co-founder Director of Forum for the Future. She has collaborated with the engineering profession for many years, including leading The Engineer of the 21st Century Inquiry, an influential project with young engineers.

Sara is a Founding Fellow of the Engineering Council, honorary fellow of the Institute of Energy and the Institution of Civil Engineers and received an OBE for services to education and sustainable development in 2001. Amongst other things she advises the NUS, Chairs the Richard Sandbrook Trust and sits on the board of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Her last book, based on the Masters course she designed and ran for 20 years at Forum, Positive Deviant: Sustainability leadership in a perverse world, is a course book in several countries.