34 Facts About Felix Dodds

Felix Dodds, born Michael Nicholas Dodds, is a British author, futurist, and activist.

Felix Dodds stood in Mid Derbyshire for the Liberal Democrats in the 2019 General Election.

Felix Dodds has been instrumental in developing new modes of stakeholder engagement with the United Nations, particularly within the field of sustainable development.

Felix Dodds is best known as the author of How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings: Mine is a Cafe Latte, written with co-author Michael Strauss.

Felix Dodds has produced a trilogy of books known as the Vienna Cafe Trilogy, which covers the history of sustainable development at the global level.

Felix Dodds wrote the third book in the series, Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals, with Ambassador Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch.

Felix Dodds believes this is due to the failure of developed countries to deliver on promises made during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg.

Felix Dodds was influenced at an early age by the visions of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.

Felix Dodds went on to study physics at the University of Surrey, where he was very active in student politics.

Felix Dodds contributed much of his time to the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Surrey Students Union, for which he served as Deputy President between 1977 and 1978.

Early in his career, Felix Dodds was active in UK politics and involved himself with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Anti-Nazi League.

Felix Dodds simultaneously began to engage with environmental issues such as acid rain, nuclear power and ozone depletion.

Felix Dodds held numerous positions in the Liberal Party between 1983 and 1987 and became chairperson of the party's "young wing," the National League of Young Liberals, in 1985.

Felix Dodds was a key instigator in the rebellion against the SDP-Liberal Alliance leadership of David Steel and David Owen over the issue of an independent nuclear deterrence.

Felix Dodds's work called for closer cooperation between Green members on the left in British politics.

In 1988, Felix Dodds co-founded Green Voice, which worked for two years to create a dialogue between Green members on the left of UK politics.

Since 1990, Felix Dodds has been active within the United Nations network, originally as Director of the United Nations Environment and Development, UK Committee.

Felix Dodds has co-founded global Non-governmental organization coalitions for a number of United Nations processes, including the annual United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, the 1996 UN-HABITAT II Conference, and the 1999 World Health Organization Health and Environment Conference in London.

Felix Dodds co-chaired the NGO coalition at the UN CSD from 1997 to 2001 and is credited with proposing to the UN General Assembly in 1996 the introduction of Stakeholder Dialogues at the United Nations.

Felix Dodds has played a role in their development since that time and is an advocate for the involvement of stakeholders in the decision-making process and implementation of global agreements.

Felix Dodds contends that at present, we are in a period of stakeholder democracy, and trying, at various levels within society, to develop the structures, vocabulary, and institutions to embed this phase.

Since 2004, Felix Dodds has been working on the emerging agenda of human and environmental security.

Felix Dodds argues that due to the failure of donor governments to fund the agendas stemming from summits at Rio and Johannesburg, many environmental issues are now becoming security dilemmas.

Felix Dodds has, in the past, advised the European Union, the governments of Denmark, and the UK at intergovernmental events.

Felix Dodds served as an advisor on civil society to the Russian Government for the 2006 G8 Summit.

Felix Dodds was selected by the United Nations Department for Public Information and NGOs to chair the UN DPI Conference on "Sustainable Societies; Responsive Citizens".

Felix Dodds was part of a number of advisory boards for Rio+20, including the global scientist's conference in 2012, Planet Under Pressure, the German Government sponsored conference Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus in the Green Economy, and the Government of Abu Dhabi-sponsored conference Eye on Earth Summit framework committee and stakeholder advisory committee.

Felix Dodds is an International Ambassador for the City of Bonn.

Felix Dodds is an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Sciences and Engineering, a Senior Affiliate of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina, and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute in Boston.

Felix Dodds was co-director of the Nexus 2014 and 2018: Water, Energy, Food, and Climate Conference.

Felix Dodds advises a number of organizations working on post-2015 development goals.

Felix Dodds is a writer and was for twenty years Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future from 1992 to 2012 and was President of Amber Valley Liberal Democrats until 2021.

Felix Dodds has been an occasional writer for Inter Press Service and the BBC's website and Forbes and Inter-Press Service News Service.

Felix Dodds has taken up blogging on sustainable development and Twitter.