Ian Woolverton

Ian leads media at River Action, with over 20 years’ experience amplifying urgent issues, from climate justice to humanitarian crises, for organisations including the UN, Red Cross, Oxfam, and Save the Children. His work in conflict zones and disaster areas earned him the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal, awarded through the Australian honours system.

Raised poor in the industrial heart of the West Midlands, Ian found escape in nature, and in supporting Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. His formative years shaped a lifelong drive to challenge systems that exploit people and the planet.

Today, he lives in a quirky hilltop community above Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. From there, he campaigns to hold polluters to account and expose the damage being done to our rivers.