Ashok Sinha (born 8 November 1964) is a British environmental campaigner and commentator, best known for his involvement with the Jubilee Debt Campaign, for jointly founding Make Poverty History and leading the Stop Climate Chaos coalition.
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Sinha studied physics at the University of Bristol and completed his Ph.D. in renewable energy at Cambridge. Following his qualifications he spent a number of years pursuing research into climate change science before moving into policy work with Forum for the Future.
Ashok Sinha was one of the group of UK NGO activists who found and lead the UK Make Poverty History campaign, which he did whilst he was the coordinator for the Jubilee Debt Campaign.
In 2005 he became Director of the newly-founded Stop Climate Chaos coalition.[1] The coalition gained a high profile with its I Count campaign, which was the UK's campaign partner with the UK Live Earth event, mobilised 25,000 people for a rally in Trafalgar Square in 2006 and was the main campaign promoted at Glastonbury 2007. Stop Climate Chaos was also instrumental in helping to secure the UK's Climate Change Act and helping to put a brake on the building of new unabated coal-fired power stations. Most recently, on 5 December 2009, Ashok led SCC in delivering The Wave (ahead of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen) which was at the time the biggest single climate march and campaign event ever held.
He has also been a Board member (and Vice Chair) of Amnesty International UK and of the London Cycling Campaign.
Ashok Sinha is currently Chief Executive of the London Cycling Campaign