Dr Michael Warhurst has been working for Friends of the Earth in London as the senior campaigner in the Resource Use team since November 2005. His work focuses particularly on EU and UK waste and resources policy, and he heads up Friends of the Earth Europe’s Resources and Consumption campaign.

Prior to this role, he worked on the EU’s new REACH chemicals regulation, first at Friends of the Earth in London, and then in WWF’s European Policy Office in Brussels. In 2005 he spent 9 months working on US chemicals policy at the Lowell Centre for Sustainable Production in Massachusetts, USA.

Michael has a Degree in biochemistry from the University of York, a PhD (in the breakdown of chemicals by bacteria) from the University of Glasgow, and an MSc in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh.