Simon Birkett
Founder and Director Clean Air LondonSimon Birkett is an environmental campaigner. As Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, he has campaigned since 2006 for full compliance with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines for air quality throughout London and elsewhere.
Between 2015 and March 2019, Simon was the air pollution stakeholder on the High Level Inter-Governmental and Stakeholder Advisory Group for UNEP’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO6). This was the United Nations’ most comprehensive report on the global environment since 2012. At a local level, he chairs the Knightsbridge Neighbourhood Forum which produced the first neighbourhood plan in central London.
Simon was quoted in over 300 media articles in more than 19 countries when London successfully implemented the ninth phase of low and ultra-low emission zones in August 2023.
Simon has a Master of Science from the London Business School and a first class honours degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne.