Meet the Honorary Fellow: Natalie Fee

Natalie Fee (HonFCIWEM) is one of four new CIWEM Honorary Fellows. Below we learn more about her and find out her answer to the question: how do you feel about becoming an Honorary Fellow and how will this shape your work going forward?

Natalie Fée is an award-winning environmentalist, author of How to Save the World for Free, speaker and founder of City to Sea, a Bristol-based organisation running international campaigns to stop plastic pollution at source. Natalie set up City to Sea in 2015 and it's gone on to become one of the UK's leading environmental organisations combatting plastic pollution, through award-winning campaigns such as Refill and Rethink Periods.

She is also an experienced media expert, published author, columnist, TED speaker, communications consultant and TV presenter, with over fifteen years’ experience in creating and managing digital content for campaigns, clients and creative industries.

"It's an honour and a privilege to accept an Honorary Fellowship from CIWEM. From babbling brooks to great oceans, our human influence has, for hundreds of years, dominated, polluted and depleted precious water sources. As the harmful effects of this approach are acutely felt by people, soil, rivers and oceans around the world, we know we must do things differently.

"We know that now is the time for regeneration, reciprocity and respect for our environment. And we know it's time for us to give back, to ensure that future generations – of fish and flesh – get to enjoy the gifts we, and those before us, have been blessed with.

"Perhaps this is the moment for us to move beyond seeing water as a resource to be managed and instead take our place as guardians of these gifts, as a global community of custodians of the natural environment.

"It's in this spirit that I join CIWEM’s community; as a voice for the seen and unseen, as an activist and as a woman who recognises her interconnectivity with the waters of the world. I look forward to the new connections, ideas and impact this fellowship may bring!"

Our Honorary Fellow programme recognises people who are not normally members of CIWEM, or necessarily working directly in the water and environmental management field, that have made an incredible contribution to shape the future of the water and environment profession as well as that of CIWEM itself.