100 years of Barbara Ward: An interview with David Satterthwaite
Channel: IIED
Date: 2014-05-23

On 23 May 2014, Barbara Ward, the founder of the International Institute for Environment and Development, would have been 100 years old.

To mark the centenary, and to pay tribute to one of the first champions of sustainable development, IIED commissioned a series of interviews and articles.

In this interview, IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite, who first worked alongside Ward as a junior researcher, recalls his experiences alongside a woman Time magazine dubbed "one of the most influential visionaries of the 20th century".

Sattherthwaite also considers what Ward would have made of the modern-day IIED and its work.