Christopher Michael Jack Gorell Barnes (born May 1974) [1] is an English digital entrepreneur and marine conservationist best known as executive producer of the documentary The End of the Line.
[7] His paternal grandfather was Sir William Lethbridge Gorell Barnes (1909-1987), a War Cabinet official later of the Treasury and Colonial Office (where he was Deputy Under Secretary of State from 1959 to 1963), and who had been Personal Assistant to Prime Minister Clement Attlee from 1946 to 1948.
[11][12] Gorell Barnes was raised in Maida Vale, and studied at Bedales and the European Business School at Regent's University London.
[18] Gorell Barnes was executive producer for The End of the Line, a documentary film that changed attitudes towards seafood, including among companies such as Pret A Manger and Marks & Spencer.
[14][25][26][27] In 2010 it brokered a deal that created a huge marine reserve around the Chagos Islands[28] and two years later one that protected the waters around Turneffe Atoll in the Caribbean.