Barney Lerner

Barney Lerner is Chair of the Friends of Bradford’s Becks, a group that has been raising awareness of and improving the becks (streams) in and around Bradford since 2012. He started work in a predecessor to the Environment Agency, then worked for an engineering consultancy. He became an academic teaching and researching about water and pollution, finishing up as Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Sheffield and Professor of Catchment Science at SUSTech in Shenzhen (China). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and was awarded an MBE for services to the environment in Bradford By King Charles in December 2023.