Bobby Peek

Bobby Peek is Director of groundWork, Friends of the Earth, South Africa, an environmental justice NGO working in South Africa and across Africa. He grew up on the fence line of south Durban’s Engen oil refinery, co-founded the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, was the National Campaigns Coordinator for the Environmental Justice Networking Forum, and in 1998 received the Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa.

Bobby served on South Africa’s first National Environmental Advisory Committee to the South African Minister of Environment. He works with the From 2008 to 2012 he was a member of the International Executive Committee of Friends of the Earth International, the world’s largest federation of grassroots organisations fighting for environmental and social justice.

At present Bobby serves on the Southern African Advisory Board and the is the Co-Chair of International Board for the Global Greengrants Fund and on the board of the Environmental Justice Fund. He advises on various national and international environmental justice strategies. He has received an honorary PhD from the Durban University of Technology.