Sir Martin Wyatt Holdgate CB (born 14 January 1931) is an English biologist and environmental scientist.
Holdgate was born in Horsham, England on 14 January 1931, grew up in Blackpool,[1] and was educated at Arnold School.
[1] After his formal retirement, he was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and served as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests, and Secretary of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Board on Sustainable Development.
[3] Holdgate has been President of the Zoological Society of London and of the Freshwater Biological Association.
[1] He is also a member and fellow of the Institute of Biology, making him a Chartered Biologist, and entitling him to use the designations C.Biol and F.I.Biol.