--- title: "David Pye - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "David Pye: IVU Treasurer (1999 - ) Here is a picture of myself clutching some home (over) grown courgettes which I have subsequently eaten. David Pye has been a vegetarian for over 30 years and spent 20 years as a research scientist, he is now self-employed as an IT consultant." url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/4289-members-council-david-pye.html" date: "2026-11-06T00:06:55+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # David Pye **David Pye** IVU Treasurer (1999 - ) ![[David Pye]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/members/pics/mrpye.jpg) *Here is a picture of myself clutching some home (over) grown courgettes which I have subsequently eaten.* David Pye has been a vegetarian for over 30 years and spent 20 years as a research scientist, he is now self-employed as an IT consultant. He is currently completing an Masters degree in new media digital production at Liverpool John Moores University. Within the last few years David has set up two UK companies and taken them forward to become successful local charities with over 30 employees. David has been organiser of the very successful 'Wirral Green Fayre' an environmental event that regularly brought in 20,000 visitors. Having been a trustee since 1997 of the UK Vegetarian Society he was appointed chair in December 2003. David is a director and company secretary of two other environmental 'charitable' companies specialising in energy efficiency and organic gardening. He lives with his partner Christine in Wirral, England. His interests include, sailing, computers, world music and environmental issues. - [**Why environmentalists aren't vegetarian**](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/3302-congress-2002-texts-david2.html) - World Vegetarian Congress 2002 - [**Being Vegetarian is really good for environment**](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/3301-congress-2002-texts-david1.html) - WVC 2002 - **[Treasurer's Report](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/5482-news-2001-1-treasurer.html)** (IVU News, 2001) - **[Treasurer's Report](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/5710-news-oct2000-treasurer.html)** (IVU News, Oct 2000) - [**Mr Pye's Post Congress Diary**](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/3731-congress-thai99-reports-mrpye.html) - from the World Vegetarian Congress, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1999 - [**Vegetarian Society UK**](http://www.vegsoc.org/) David is Chairman - [**Wirral Green Alliance**](http://www.cesul.org.uk/) David is treasurer Birkenhead, UK A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly. Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. 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