Jim Berreen

Jim Berreen was a prominent member of the Green Party in the 1980s and 90s and an academic. He remains a member of the party. He became a special needs teacher in the mid 1990s and retired from full-time teaching in 2010. Berreen is a musician playing saxes, flute and percussion and runs a Latin Jazz band called Loco Mundo.
Early life
Berreen went to University at Exeter. He was Hall President at Mardon
Career
Following voluntary service in the Pacific Berreen did post-graduate entomology at the University of Glasgow before joing the University of Malawi as a junior research fellow working on red locust biology. Berreen was a lecturer in Animal Ecology at the University of Birmingham. A number of Green Party activists cite him as an inspiration for their later involvement with the party.
Berreen was Environment Speaker for the Green Party at the height of its success in 1989 and in the early 90s.
He was a co-founder and scientific advisor within the Global Commons Institute which pioneered the model of Contraction and Convergence for the IPCC.<ref name="GCIDoc"/>

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