Ron Kingham is co-founder and Executive Director of the Environment & Development Resource Centre (EDRC) where he coordinates the Brussels Dialogue for Climate Diplomacy (BDCD), the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change (GMACCC), the North-Atlantic Civil-Society Working-Group on Environment and Security (NCWES), and the pilot project on Transatlantic Responses to 21st Century Environmental Challenges.

In 2015 he was seconded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to assist with the organisation of the first Planetary Security Conference and in 2016 he served as the coordinator for the organisation of the 2nd Planetary Security Conference.

He is also a co-founder and former Director of the Institute for Environmental Security (IES) where he continues as a senior adviser and the IES representative in Brussels. From 2011 to 2015 he was Assistant Manager for Project COBRA showcasing indigenous solutions for the management of natural resources and from 2012 to 2016 he was the IES coordinator in the EFFACE project on “European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime”.

He is also former Executive Director of the International Coalition for Development Action and has carried out projects for the Environment Liaison Centre, European Partners for the Environment, European Environmental Bureau, the European Commission (DG Environment), and Shell International (Global Scenarios Project). In 2000-2001, he was technical adviser to the UNITAR Project: “Who Needs What to Implement the Kyoto Protocol? An Assessment of Capacity Building Needs in 33 Developing Countries”.

Educated in the US and Europe, he is a political scientist with a specialisation in international relations and European integration. His studies also focused on European history, human rights and development economics.