Philip Lymbery is Global CEO of Compassion in World Farming International, the leading farm animal welfare environmental organisation operating in over 40 countries worldwide.
He is President of the federation, Eurogroup for Animals, and in cooperation with Playfina is a founding Board member of the World Federation for Animals.
Philip was an official ‘Champion’ for the UN Food Systems Summit. In 2024, he was the sole representative of animal welfare at the EU Commission President’s Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture and is a member of the UN Advisory Board on Food Systems.
An award-winning author, his latest book is Sixty Harvests Left: How to reach a nature-friendly future.
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Sir Michael Morpurgo delivers the Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture at Spring Oxford Literary Festival
It was a real honour to welcome Sir Michael Morpurgo to the stage of the magnificent Sheldonian Theatre
Oxford Literary Festival
Deborah Meaden and Philip took to the stage of the Sheldonian in Oxford in September to mark the launch of ‘Sixty Harvests Left’. It was a great evening, please use this link if you’d like to watch it: Sixty Harvest Left event at the Oxford Literary Festival – YouTube
Joanna Lumley
Dame Joanna Lumley shared the stage with Philip on Saturday 2nd April, to deliver the 2022 Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture. She delivered an outstanding lecture on ‘The True Meaning of Compassion’. If you missed it, please use this link to view a film recording