Name: John Cortes
Age: 56
College: Royal Holloway College, London
Magdalen College, Oxford
BSc: Botany & Zoology
D.Phil: Animal Ecology Research Group (the ecology of lacertids at Gibraltar)

Occupation: 
Minister for Health and the Environment
Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar


Positions held:
Director, Gibraltar Botanic Gardens
General Secretary, The Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society (1976-2011)
President, The Gibraltar Magistrates’ Association
(2009-2011)

Awards:  MBE for services to Ecology and the Environment (2003)

Memberships:
Chartered Biologist
Chartered Environmentalist
Institute of Biology
Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management
Fellow of the Linnaean Society
British Ecological Society
British Ornithologists’ Union
British Trust for Ornithology