Costa Carras, born in London in 1938, studied philosophy and ancient history at Oxford where he was President of the Student Christian Movement. He then studied economics at Harvard and worked for many years in shipping in London. He now lives in Athens. Together with his wife Lydia Carras, a documentary film producer, he founded Elliniki Etairia (Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage) in 1972, serving twice (1972-1975, 2001-2008) as its President. He is Vice President since 1976 of the federation of European conservation organizations, Europa Nostra. An Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in 1988 he organized the Patmos meeting on religion and the environment which served as prelude to the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s leading role in the field. He published a book of environmental essays in Greek, Imiteles Topio, and co-edited Living Orthodoxy in the Modern World. He co-chaired the British Council of Churches Commission on Trinitarian Doctrine.