Jason Drew

Jason is an international businessman and serial entrepreneur who, having retired early after two heart attacks, became a passionate environmentalist and visionary. He has held leadership roles in a number of international businesses from General Electric to BUPA and Egg before leading the start-up of Africa's leading outsourced services provider with over 3,000 staff. He studied at the European Business School in London and has lived and worked in Europe the Middle East and Africa.

His latest venture AgriProtein in collaboration with South Africa's University of Stellenbosch and a team of international scientists has developed a renewable and natural source of protein. Using fly larvae to recycle existing waste nutrients, the company has developed and tested a natural animal feed. Instead of polluting the environment with abattoir waste, it is turned into high quality protein that can replace fishmeal in industrial farming and save the seas.

His new book, The Protein Crunch civilization on the brink, is the culmination of two years researching and travelling the world's eco-systems and slums understanding the environment and the world we live in. It takes the complex and sometimes abstract notion of the environment and brings it down to earth with a bang. The hard realities of what we are doing to the planet mixed with superb examples that people can relate to in their everyday lives makes this approach to understanding the environment unique.

With some harsh truths about the world we live in, controversial statements and amusing insights, Jason takes the entrepreneur to the environment and looks for solutions to the environmental problems we face. From using larvae to recycle waste, to creating GM mosquitoes to limit Dengue fever and innovative urban wind farms to power our cities - Jason's insights into the business of the environment and how to repair the future are motivational and remarkable.