Clive Bates has had a diverse career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. After securing a degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, he worked in IT marketing for IBM. In a switch of career, he took a master’s degree in environmental technology and went on to work in the environment movement, initially for Greenpeace. During 1997-2003, he was Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK), campaigning to reduce the harms caused by tobacco and supporting the early development of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He has been an advocate for tobacco harm reduction since 1998. In 2003, he joined Prime Minister Blair’s Strategy Unit as a senior civil servant. He worked in senior sustainability roles in the public sector in the UK and for the United Nations in Sudan. At the start of 2013, he opened a new venture, Counterfactual, a consulting and advocacy practice focused on a pragmatic approach to sustainable development, energy and public health with a camping focus on harm reduction.
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