Cooke, Kieran

Kieran Cooke writes the weekly Green and Confused column for The Times and also contributes to Eureka, the monthly science magazine distributed by the paper. He is a frequent contributor to BBC radio, in particular to From Our Own Correspondent, one of the most widely listened to and respected of BBC programmes. He has also written for The Guardian. In addition Kieran writes for The Irish Times and broadcasts for RTE, Irish radio. Kieran has been a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, the BBC and The Independent, based in Indonesia, Greece, Ireland and Malaysia, covering a wide variety of political, economic, business, social and environmental issues. In recent years he studied Environmental Conservation at Oxford. Kieran has lectured at Oxford and teaches environmental and business journalism, mainly in the developing world. During the past two years he has carried out training and reporting assignments in Nigeria, Georgia, Armenia and Albania as well as in the United States. In recent years Kieran has been involved in a series of Religion, Science & Environment symposia taking place in the Mediterranean, the Amazon and in the Arctic, coordinating international media coverage and helping organise events. Kieran has carried out writing and editing projects for, among others, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Forests and the European Union Research Network (FERN). At present he is writing a book on rubbish, looking at how solutions can be found to the growing problem of waste.