Jonathan Bartley

Jonathan is the Green Party's longest-serving leader, heading up the party from 2016 to 2021 with Caroline Lucas MP and then Sian Berry AM, taking the party through two General Elections.

During his leadership, the party broke records gaining its highest poll ratings as the UK's third Party, trebling its number of councillors, gaining new Parliamentarians and even beating the Conservatives in the 2019 European Elections.

Jonathan was educated at the London School of Economics and, after brief spells working at Legal and General Investments and International Computers Limited (ICL), worked in Parliament on a cross-party basis for four years, running committees on urban development and Central Asia.

Around the time of the invasion of Iraq, he founded a think tank to examine the role of religion in public life and develop proposals for active peacebuilding, including supporting peace activists who were taken hostage in Baghdad in the aftermath of the war.