Stanley Johnson

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Person.png Stanley Johnson   SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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Born18 August 1940
NationalityUK
Alma materSherborne School, Exeter College (Oxford)
Children • Boris Johnson
• Jo Johnson
• Rachel Johnson
SpouseCharlotte Fawcett
PartyConservative (UK)

Employment.png Member of the European Parliament for Wight and Hampshire East

In office
7 June 1979 – - 14 June 1984
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Stanley Patrick Johnson is a British author[1] and former Conservative Party politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1984. A former employee of the World Bank and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, he has written books on environmental and (de-)population issues.

His six children include Prime Minister Boris Johnson; former MP and minister Jo Johnson; and journalist Rachel Johnson.

Work and interests

Cover of his 1982 book the Virus
His 1973 book The population problem is part of his long commitment to a sharp reduction in the human population

After leaving school "he travelled alone through South America and as an undergraduate rode 4,000 miles on a motorcycle along the Marco Polo route to Afghanistan. Having won a poetry prize at Oxford and being award a Harkness Fellowship to the United States, Stanley embarked on a fascinating career, training as a spy with MI6, working at the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Union." [2]

In the 1970s, Johnson served on the staff of the World Bank and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Johnson was a Conservative member of the European Parliament (MEP) where he served (1979-1984) as Vice Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection. He has also worked in the European Commission (1973-1979) as Head of the Prevention of Pollution division and (1984-1994) as Senior Adviser to DG Environment and as Director of Energy Policy.

Johnson has been an adviser to Price Waterhouse Coopers, a director of ERM, an environmental consultancy, a trustee of the Earthwatch Institute and Plantlife International and an environmental adviser to Jupiter Asset Management. He is a trustee of the Gorilla Organisation (www.gorillas.org) and an Ambassador for the United Nations Convention on Migratory Species. [3]

He is an Ambassador for Rewilding Europe.

Books

He has published a number of books dealing with environmental and population issues issues and nine novels, including Life without Birth: A Journey Through the Third World in Search of the Population Explosion (1970), The Population Problem (1973), The Marburg Virus (1982) and World Population - Turning the Tide (1994).

Wikipedia

Per July 2021, Wikipedia omits to mention any interests in population control.


 

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