Professor Victor Anderson is the Visiting Professor at the Global Sustainability Institute in Anglia Ruskin University and a former Green Party member of the London Assembly. Anderson has worked as a policy officer at the World Wildlife Fund, a lecturer at Goldsmiths College College and a parliamentary researcher for Plaid Cymru. At the inagural elections to the London Assembly in 2000, Anderson was elected as a London-wide member. He was environment advisor to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, before standing down from the assembly in 2003.