David Fleming

David Fleming (born on 2 January 1940) is an independent thinker on environmental issues, based in London, England. He was one of the whistle blowers on the possibility of peak oil's approach and a significant figure in the development of the UK Ecology (Green) Party, as well as being a former Chairman of the Soil Association. He read History at the University of Oxford from 1959 to 1963, and then worked in manufacturing (textiles), marketing (de... more

David Fleming (born on 2 January 1940) is an independent thinker on environmental issues, based in London, England. He was one of the whistle blowers on the possibility of peak oil's approach and a significant figure in the development of the UK Ecology (Green) Party, as well as being a former Chairman of the Soil Association. He read History at the University of Oxford from 1959 to 1963, and then worked in manufacturing (textiles), marketing (detergents), advertising and financial public relations, before taking an MBA at Cranfield University in 1968. He was the Ecology (Green) Party's economics spokesman and press secretary between 1977 and 1980 (the party office at that time being his flat in Hampstead). In 1979 he began studies in economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, completing an MSc in 1983 and a PhD on the economics of the market for positional goods in 1988. He was Honorary Treasurer and then Chairman of the Soil Association between 1984 and 1991. He has been a... less