Anthony John Colman (born 24 July 1943)[1] is a British politician, businessman, and academic, who served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Putney from 1997 to 2005.
[4][5] Colman was the Labour candidate for South West Hertfordshire in the 1979 general election, but lost to the incumbent Conservative MP, Geoffrey Dodsworth.
[2] During his time in parliament, Colman was also vice-chair of GLOBE UK, a pressure group promoting sustainable development.
[citation needed] From July 2008 to November 2010, Colman was the Director of One World Trust,[23] a pressure group for global governance of which he is now the chair of the board of trustees.
[4][5] From June 2020, he has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, Cambridge University.
[citation needed] Colman was also a Trustee of Chatham House and the New Economics Foundation and is on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute 2005–12.