About Richard Sandbrook
Lived 1946 – 2005 (aged 59). Richard Sandbrook was a political scientist.
John Richard Sandbrook OBE (13 August 1946 – 11 December 2005) was a co-founder of Friends of the Earth UK serving as Managing Director from 1974 to 1976, and Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development from 1989 to 1999. He was educated at Dauntsey's School and the University of East Anglia. He was President of the Union of UEA Students in 1967/8. For five years he was an accountant at Arthur Andersen.
He was a non-executive director of the Eden Project in Cornwall, featuring biomes and gardens, from 1999 to 2003.
He married Mary Wray in 1970; they had two sons.
Sandbrook died of cancer aged 59.
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environmentalist (1946-2005)
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Richard Sandbrook was born on 13 August 1946.
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