COLIN HUTCHINSON, formerly chairman of the management consultants Sheppard Moscow, is an independent environmental management consultant specializing in strategic approaches to individual and organizational change. While with Sheppard Moscow he led major assignments with companies such as Shell UK, Lloyds Bank, British Petroleum, Rank Xerox, ICI, and Hewlett Packard. His lifelong interest in the environmental threat to the Earth’s life support system led him in 1971 to become chairman of the Conservation Society, and in 1978 chairman of their educational charity. He was a director for the Environment Council from 1992 to 1994 and chairman of their Environmental Resolve Committee. He is currently a director of the Global Action Plan UK Limited and also a council member of AMED, the Association for Management Education and Development.