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Since 2000, I have been the Executive Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a newly founded and nationally distributed centre based in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. I was born in London in 1960 and educated at Madras College in St.Andrews, Fife, and at the Universities of Durham and Swansea. I worked in the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia from 1988-2000, initially as a Senior Research Associate and from 1998 as a Reader. Prior to 1988 I lectured in Physical Geography for four years at the University of Salford. My PhD was awarded in 1985 by the University of Wales on the topic of 'Rainfall and hydrological change in central Sudan'. I am a research climatologist specialising in global climate change, the evaluation of climate models, the development and application of climate change scenarios and impact models, African climate and desertification, and have published extensively in all of these fields. I have been responsible for managing multi-institutional research projects funded by, among others, the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), the European Commission (e.g. the ECLAT-2 Concerted Action) and WWF International. I am a member of the IPCC Task Group on Climate Scenarios for Impacts Assessment and co-Manager of the IPCC Data Distribution Centre for climate scenario information for the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the IPCC. I am also a Convening Lead Author for Chapter 13 on climate change scenario development and Lead Author for Chapter 10 on regional climate information in the WGI report of the IPCC TAR. I co-edited the book Climates of the British Isles: present, past and future, published by Routledge in 1997, and co-ordinated the UKCIP98 climate scenarios report commissioned by the UK DETR and published in October 1998. Consultancy work has been undertaken for, among others, the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, the Overseas Development Administration (UK), the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, BP-Amoco, W.S.Atkins, Mott McDonald Ltd. and the Club du Sahel. From 1988 to 2001 I supplied monthly UK climate summaries for he Guardian newspaper. I have been a member of the Royal Meteorological Society since 1982, and was on the Editing Committee of the International Journal of Climatology from 1994 to 1999, and an Editor of Climate Research from 1997 to 2000. I am currently an Editorial Advisor of Progress in Physical Geography and on the Editorial Board of the newly launched journal Climate Policy. I was awarded, jointly, the Hugh Robert Mill Prize in 1995 by the Royal Meteorological Society. |