Felix Dodds - Current Positions

Current Positions

Felix Dodds is a writer and was for twenty years Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future (1992-2012). Since 2007, he has been an instrumental leader of Race for Tomorrow, a public campaign to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015. He is a member of the UN Habitat World Urban Campaign Steering Committee.

Dodds has, in the past, advised the European Union,the governments of Denmark and the UK at intergovernmental events. Dodds also served as an advisor on civil society to the Russian Government for the 2006 G8 Summit. From 2006 to 2007, he was a member of the UNEP Global Environmental Outlook 4 Outreach Advisory Committee and is a former board member of the Montreal International Forum. He was selected by the NGOs and the UN DPI to chair the 2011 UN DPI Conference on "Sustainable Societies; Responsive Citizens" (Rio+20). He was part of a number of advisory boards for Rio+20 these include the global scientists conference in 2012 Planet Under Pressure, the German Government sponsored conference Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus in the Green Economy and the Government of Abu Dhabi sponsored conference Eye on Earth Summit framework committee and stakeholder advisory committee. He is an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. Dodds is currently a member of the Council of Advisors for the Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security and a member of the advisory boards for the A Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Medio Ambiente, The Widening Circle and the Planetary Boundaries Initiative . He is an occasional writer for the BBC’s web site, and has taken up blogging at international film festivals and twittering.