Dr Michael Warhurst has worked as the senior campaigner for the Resource Use team at Friends of the Earth since November 2005. He focuses on EU and UK waste and resources policy.
He leads the Europe Waste and Resources campaign, including working on the revision of the EU’s main waste directive. Prior to 2005, he worked on chemicals policy, with a particular focus on the EU’s new REACH chemicals regulation, for Friends of the Earth and at WWF’s European Policy Office in Brussels.
During 2005 he spent nine months working on US chemicals policy at the Lowell Centre for Sustainable Production in Massachusetts, USA.
At the summer school 2008 Michael, along with Mark Schapiro gave a talk about Global Environmental Power in the 21st Century – the EU flexes its muscles
Michael wrote the guide What is the EU? to support this presentation.