Jonathan Robinson

Jonathan Robinson is Director of Resources and Legal Services at the Environment Agency.  He joined the Environment Agency as Legal Director in 2009.

Jonathan qualified as a solicitor with Baker and McKenzie in London, and subsequently worked in the European Commission handling enforcement of EU environmental law, and working in international environmental policy negotiations in the UN, WTO and UNEP.  He has managed teams working on environmental and planning law in Defra, and been Chief Legal Adviser in the UK Department of Communities and Local Government and the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development.  He is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand.

Jonathan has published articles on environmental law and edited a book on greenhouse gas emissions trading. He is visiting professor of environmental law at University College London and recently co-authored (with Eloise Scotford) the review of the state of English environmental law for the 25^th anniversary edition of the Oxford Journal of Environmental Law

Since 2011 he has also had responsibility for the Resources and Legal Services Directorate at the Environment Agency (covering legal services, human resources, property, fleet, health and safety, and internal environmental management).

In 2013 he became the first President of the newly created European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment.