He studied physics at the University of Bristol and completed his PhD in renewable energy at Cambridge.
Ashok Sinha was one of the group of UK NGO activists who founded the UK Make Poverty History campaign, serving on its governing body, which he did whilst he was leading the Jubilee Debt Campaign.
Following Stop Climate Chaos, Sinha became chief executive of the London Cycling Campaign,[1] creating the sustainable transport charity's Love London, Go Dutch, Space for Cycling and Climate Safe Streets campaigns.
He was listed as one of the UK's top 100 Ethical Heroes by New Consumer magazine in 2007, one of the UK's top 100 environmentalists by the Independent on Sunday in 2008, and was listed annually as one of London's 1000 most influential people by the Evening Standard between 2012 and 2019.
[2] Sinha is currently the chair of the London Sustainable Development Commission[3] Amongst other voluntary roles, Sinha has also been a board member (and vice chair) of Amnesty International UK and of the London Cycling Campaign, and a trustee of the Creekside Education Trust.