Richard Fuller (Founder, Blacksmith Institute)

Richard Fuller
Born	1960 Australia
Residence	New York
Citizenship	U.S. and Australian
Occupation	Founder, Blacksmith Institute/Pure Earth
Known for	global pollution remediation efforts

Richard Fuller (born 1960) is an Australian-born, U.S.-based engineer, entrepreneur and environmentalist best known for his work in global pollution remediation. He is founder and president of the nonprofit Blacksmith Institute, (recently renamed Pure Earth) dedicated to solving pollution problems in low and middle-income countries, where human health is at risk. He is also the founder and president of Great Forest, Inc., a sustainability consultancy in the U.S. In 2010, he was profiled in Time magazine's Power of One column about his efforts fighting global pollution. In 2014, Bloomberg Businessweek chronicled the growth of Blacksmith Institute/Pure Earth and Fuller's work on toxic pollution problems around the world, including a dangerous cleanup of a secret former Soviet arms site in the Ukraine.

In 2014, the UN Dispatch profiled Fuller's work helping to shape the Sustainable Development Goals. Working with Pure Earth and the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, Fuller was part of a global team that successfully worked to broaden the scope of toxic pollution addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In 2015, Santa Monica Press published "The Brown Agenda: My Mission To Clean Up The World's Most Life-Threatening Pollution", written by Fuller and Damon DiMarco. The book documents his adventures at some of the world's most toxic locations, and introduces readers to the plight of the poisoned poor, suggesting specific ways in which anyone can help combat brown sites all over the world.

"We've already solved most of the pollution problems in the West. There aren't people dying in droves in the U.S. or in England - they're all dying overseas, in low- and middle-income countries," the author of "The Brown Agenda" told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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