He is the founding president of MigrationWatch UK, an organisation arguing for lower immigration to the United Kingdom.

Lord Green was educated at Haileybury before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences and Economics.

[1] After his retirement in June 2000, Lord Green went on to co-found MigrationWatch UK[2] together with David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University.

[citation needed] He was the co-chair of the lobbying group British Syrian Society, founded by President Assad's father in law Fawaz Akhras, until his resignation in 2011.

"[9] He was duly raised to the peerage as Baron Green of Deddington, in the County of Oxfordshire on 28 November 2014.