Tony Grayling

Tony Grayling is the head of Environmental Policy at the Environment Agency, the main environmental regulator in England. He is a former director of the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank (1999-2006).

Biography

Tony Grayling is head of Climate Change and Communities at the Environment Agency, He leads the Environment Agency’s work on cross-cutting issues including climate change, sustainable communities and land use planning. He is currently leading the agency’s work on unconventional oil and gas. He was previously a special adviser to David Miliband and Hilary Benn at DEFRA, helping to design the UK’s Climate Change Act 2008. From 2002 to 2006 he was an associate director and head of the sustainability team at the Institute for Public Policy Research, a UK think tank, which he joined in 1999 as a research fellow. He was a special adviser to the Minister for Transport, Gavin Strang, from 1997-98 during the development of the UK governments 1998 transport white paper and before that a researcher successively to Labour MPs Ron Davies and Anne Campbell. Educated at Thorpe St Andrew School, Norwich and Fitzwilliam College, he has a first class degree in natural sciences and a PhD in plant sciences both from Cambridge University.

Affiliations

• David Miliband - Grayling was a former SPAD to Miliband at DEFRA.
• Hilary Benn - Grayling was a SPAD to Benn at DEFRA
• Gavin Strang, Grayling was a special adviser to Strang when he was Minister for Transport, from 1997-98