Alex Bourke, from England, is a leading international vegan activist, writer and publisher, with sales of over 60,000 of his books.

Alex became vegetarian at the age of 14 in 1975 but didn’t meet another veggie until 1980 at university, where together they started a society. Throughout the eighties and early nineties he worked a as software engineer, including three years at a travel publisher. In 1989 he became a vegan. Increasingly dissatisfied with selling his brain for money, he started to publish vegetarian guidebooks in his free time. In 1998 he became a full time writer and campaigner and started his own company vegetarian guides. In 2001 he scripted and co-produced the 22 minute introductory film Animal Rights which shows the British movement, explains the psychology of change , and proposes easy ways to get active.

Alex has worked with activists and groups in Britain, France, Belgium, Poland and America to identify the challenges and blocks that all activists encounter. He has a special interest in using the techniques of transpersonal psychology and neuro-linguistic programming to achieve progress and success in ourselves, our groups and our countries.

Alex is a local contact for the Vegan Society and has given advice to hundreds of individuals, school talks, and appeared many times on tv and radio to explain how easy it is to be vegan, what we eat, how to find more vegans, and what to say to people who want to give us a hard time. He is co-author of Vegetarian London, Vegetarian Britain, Vegetarian Europe, Vegetarian France and Campaign Against Cruelty - an activist’s handbook.

His publishing workshops on four continents have resulted in guides to Amsterdam, Berlin, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Munich and New York. In 2004 he became Chair of the Vegan Society.