Anne Chapman has a 20 year history of thought and action on environmental issues and Green politics. She studied biochemistry at Oxford in the 1980s and then went to Manchester to do an MSc in Pollution and Environmental Control. Eight years working for an environmental consultancy company in North Wales were then followed by a move to Lancaster in 1997 to do a Masters in environmental philosophy at Lancaster University. This was followed by a PhD in philosophy at Lancaster concerned with the regulation of technology, looking in particular at synthetic chemicals.