In The Footsteps of Marco Polo

Stanley Johnson, a former MEP, has worked for the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Commission in Brussels. He won the Newdigate prize for Poetry in 1962, the Greenpeace Prize and the RSPCA’s Richard Martin award in 1984, and the RSPB Medal and the WWF Leader of the Living Planet Award in 2015. Between 2019 and 2023, he served as the International Ambassador for the Conservative Environment Network (CEN). He is currently President of the Gorilla Organisation, Chairman of GEDU-Global Education Advisory Board, and Adviser to the World Coastal Forum. In 2017 he was the oldest contestant ever to appear in the reality television show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. He is the author of twelve non-fiction works on environmental and demographic topics, two volumes of memoir and eleven novels, one of which – The Commissioner – was made into a film starring John Hurt.