Martin Charter
Director
Centre for Sustainable Design
Martin Charter is the director of The Centre for Sustainable Design at University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and was a former Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at UCA before joining full-time. Since 1988, he has worked at director level in ‘business and environment’ issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research. Prior to this he held in a range of management positions in strategy, research and marketing in gardening, construction, trade exhibitions, financial services and consultancy including Save & Prosper Group, Reed International, Creative Marketing Group and Kiveton Park (Holdings) Ltd. Martin was the launch Director of Greenleaf Publishing, Marketing Director at the Earth Centre, former co-ordinator of one the UK’s first green business clubs, more recently he ran a regional network on green electronics and currently he directs a network focused on eco-innovation.
