Damon de Laszlo has been invited to join the Scientific Exploration Society (SES) Advisory Board.

Damon de Laszlo (right) studying the San rock art with Dr Ben Smith at Game Pass Shelter in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa. Image: Bradshaw Foundation.

SES is a British grant-giving charity dedicated to exploring and conserving the planet. SES promotes exploration and acts as a portal to the world of expeditions involved in climate change, environmental protection, and conservation. SES provides funding, mentoring, training, and endorsement. In the process, it offers knowledge, education, and aid to underrepresented communities in developing countries.

Damon de Laszlo is the co-founder and Chairman of the Bradshaw Foundation, one of the world's leading organisations involved in rock art preservation. The Bradshaw Foundation is a non-profit organization which provides an online learning resource. Its main areas of focus are archaeology, anthropology and genetic research, and its primary objective is to discover, document and preserve ancient rock art around the world, and promote the study of early humankind’s artistic achievements. The Foundation funds preservation projects around the world, scientific research and research publication. The Foundation now collaborates with the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles over the recently formed Rock Art Network which brings together a team of rock art researchers from around the world. The Foundation also works in collaboration with UNESCO, the National Geographical Society, the Royal Geographic Society, the Rock Art Research Institute in South Africa and the Trust for African Rock Art.

Damon de Laszlo is an industrialist with interests in companies in Europe and the United States. He sits on the boards of several American companies, including the TCW Group. He is Chairman of the Economic Research Council, founded in 1943 as the Joint Council for Economic and Monetary Research. He is Chairman of Harwin plc, which designs and manufactures electronic components and connectors in the UK, with global distributors. He represents the major shareholder of the Royal Tokaji Wine Company in Hungary. Founded in 1990, Royal Tokaji has become one of the most defining wineries in Tokaj, producing the award-winning Royal Tokaji range of wines. In 1987 he founded the de Laszlo Foundation, whose main objectives are to advance and promote education and research in the areas of the Arts, science, economics and medicine, and in particular provides a number of bursaries and scholarships for degree and PhD students. He is the Founder and President of the de Laszlo Archive Trust, a charitable trust established for the funding and administration of the research and cataloguing of Philip de László’s paintings and Archive. Damon de Laszlo is a patron of the arts, and in 2008 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire, UK.