Dr Uchita de Zoysa is Chairman of Global Sustainability Solutions and Executive Director of the Centre for Environment and Development. An internationally recognised thinker, writer and speaker on sustainability, he has served as Sri Lanka’s Chief Negotiator for the United Nations (UN) SDGs and Adviser to the Minister of Sustainable Development and Wildlife.

In 1991, Dr de Zoysa founded and led the Public Campaign on Environment & Development, then Sri Lanka’s largest environment and development non-governmental organisation (NGO) coalition. He has served on the NGO steering committees of the UN Conference on Environment and Development and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Dr de Zoysa headed the Asian Review on Sustainable Consumption for SC.Asia, coordinated by the UN Environment Programme, and has presented papers at over a hundred international meetings.

He is the author of several books, including ‘It Has to Be Climate Sustainability’. He played a leading role in drafting ‘The NGO Alternative Treaties’, the ‘Oslo Declaration on Sustainable Consumption’ and the ‘Peoples Sustainability Manifesto’. He holds a PhD from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.