Martin Palmer

Martin Palmer is a theologian, Sinologist, environmentalist and, writer and broadcaster. He co-founded with HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh the international religions and environment movement by hosting the first ever meeting between the major world  faiths and the conservation/environmental world in Assisi in1986. He was HRH’s religious advisor on the environment from 1985 until the Prince’s death in 2021.

In 1995 Martin co-founded with HRH the Alliance of Religions and Conservation that has helped over one and a half million faith based environmental projects come into being. In 2019 he with HRH founded Faithinvest which works with every major faith on their shareholder roles as investors and landholders. He is President of Faithinvest and Chairs the WWF Beliefs and Values Initiative. He is a leading expert on all faiths and a translator of Chinese Classics for Penguin. A frequent BBC broadcaster on In Our Time as well as other networks, he has written over twenty books on faiths over the last forty years. He was part of the team that produced the film on the Pope’s Laudato Si Encyclical – “The Letter” launched in 2022 and is on the Board of Resilient Foundation which supports community film making worldwide.