Joss Garman

Joss Garman (born 1985) is a British environmental and humanitarian campaigner who has worked as a campaign leader for Greenpeace UK, and as a director of The Syria Campaign. At the Institute for Public Policy Research he worked as Associate Director for energy, transport and climate change [1] before becoming adviser to the UK Shadow Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP.

Education

Born in Radnorshire, Mid-Wales, he attended his local comprehensive school before going on to read Politics at SOAS, University of London.[2]

Family

His father, David Garman, was the inventor of the world’s first bath lift and in 2015 was appointed an OBE for services to the healthcare industry.[3][4][5]

Activism

In August 2007, ahead of the Camp for Climate Action, Garman was named in a High Court injunction by airport operator BAA in a bid to prevent environmental protests at Heathrow.[6]

gollark: Doesn't raw disk I/O generally need root?
gollark: Ah, it is, and quite a recent one even.
gollark: I think it was one of their NUC lines.
gollark: __···__
gollark: I doubt they've totally cancelled the discrete graphics thing, there's a contract for them in a supercomputer, but it will probably be very late.

References
  1. IPPR
  2. New Statesman
  3. [http://www.mangarinternational.co.uk/uk/index.aspx Mangar Archived 3 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Wales Online
  5. BBC News
  6. Livingstone fights 'stupid' Heathrow protesters ban - UK Politics, UK - The Independent



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