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MEMBERSHIP OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL
POLLUTION
Brief biographical details of Members are below on this page.
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of Members' Interests
Sir John Lawton CBE FRS (Chairman)
President of the Council of the British Ecological Society 2005 -
Chief Executive of Natural Environment Research Council, October 1999
- March 2005
Director (and founder) of Natural Environment Research Council Centre
for Population Biology at Imperial College, Silwood Park 1989 - 1999
Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1990 - 1996
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor of Biology, York University 1972 - 1989
Lecturer in zoology at St Anne's and Lincoln College, Oxford 1968 - 1971
Chairman of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 1993 -1998
Vice-president of Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Vice-president of British Trust for Ornithology
Member of Tarmac Environmental Advisory Panel
Member of the Freshwater Biological Association
Professor Nicholas Cumpsty FREng
Chair of the Council, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial
College
Professor of Mechan ical Engineering, Imperial College
Chief Technologist, Rolls-Royce plc, 2000-2005
Professor of Aerothermal Technology and Director of the Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1989 - 1999.
Professor Michael H. Depledge PhD Dsc CBiol FIBiol FRSA
Professor of Environment and Human Health, Peninsula Medical School (Universities of Exeter and Plymouth)
Keeley Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, University of Oxford, 2006-
Senior Science Advisor, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, 2005-
Chief Scientific Advisor, Environment Agency, 2002-2006
Vice-Chairman, Science Advisory Committee, European Commission, DG-Research, 2006-
Board Member, Natural England, 2006-
Member, NERC Council, 2003-2006
Honorary Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College, 2002
Visiting Scientist, School of Public Health, Harvard University, US 2000-2003
Visiting Professor, Portobello Marine Laboratory, University of Otago, New Zealand, 1993
Professor (Chair of Ecotoxicology), Odense University, Denmark, 1987-1994
Senior Lecturer in Physiology, Medical School, University of Hong Kong, 1983-1987
Professor Paul Ekins MPhil MSc
PhD
Head, Environment Group, Policy Studies Institute
Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Westminster
Associate Director, Forum for the Future
Senior Consultant, Cambridge Econometrics
Specialist Advisor, House of Commons Environmental Audit
Committee
Member, Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board
Member, Judging Panel, Aslden Awards for Sustainable Energy
Member, Environmental Advisory Group, OFGEM
Trustee and Special Adviser, Right Livelihood Awards Foundation
Chairman, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) 2006 -
Dr Ian Graham-Bryce CBE DPhil
FRSC FRSE
President, Scottish Association for Marine Science
Principal Emeritus, University of Dundee
Chairman, East Malling Trust for Horticultural Research
Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Dundee
1994-2000
Convener, Committee of Scottish Higher Education
Principals 1998-2000
President, British Crop Protection Council 1998-2000
British Crop Protection Medal 2000
Member of Natural Environmental Research Council
1989-96
Head of Environmental Affairs Division, Shell
International 1986-94
President, Association of Applied Biologists 1988-89
Chairman, Agrochemical Planning Group, International Organisation for Chemistry in Development (IOCD) 1985-88
Director, East Malling Research Station 1979-86
President, Society of Chemical Industry 1982-84
Member of Editorial Board of Journal 'Pesticide Science' 1978-1980
Chairman of Pesticides Group of the Society of Chemical Industry 1978-80
Head of Insecticides and Fungicide Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station 1972-79
Senior Research Officer, ICI Plant Protection Division 1970-1972
Special Lecturer in Pesticicde Chemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology 1970-72
Personal research on pesticides (efficacy and behaviour in the environment)
1964-79; author of book and various papers.
Professor Stephen Holgate MD
DSc FRCP FMedSci FRSA
Medical Research Council Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology,
University of Southampton
Member, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Honorary Consultant Physician, Southampton University
Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth Hospital Trusts
Former Adviser, House of Lords Select Committee
on Science and Technology
Chairman, Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards
Seat on various Department of Health advisory committees.
Professor Jeffrey Jowell QC
Professor of Public Law, University College London
Vice President,
Council of Europe's Commission for Democracy Through Law ("The Venice
Commission").
Member of the Board of the Office of Rail
Regulation.
Chair, British Waterways Ombudsman Committee.
Vice Provost, University College London 1993 - 2001.
Dean, Law Faculty 1981 - 1989; 1999 - 2002.
Professor Peter Liss FGS FIMarEST
Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia 1985-
Chair, Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme 1993-1997
Member, NERC Council 1990-1995
Independent Member, Inter-Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology
Vice-Chair, Royal Society Global Environmental Research Committee
Member, Council of The Marine Biological Association of the UK
Chair, Higher Education Funding Councils' Research Assessment Exercise Panel in Earth & Environmental Sciences 2001
Guest Professor, Ocean University of Qingdao, China
Professor Susan Owens OBE AcSS FRSA
Professor of Environment and Policy, University of Cambridge,
Department of Geography and Professorial Fellow of Newnham College
Member, Defra's Horizon Scanning Sub-Group 2003-04
Member, Countryside Commission 1996-99
Member, UK Round Table on Sustainable Development
1995-98
Member, Deputy Prime Minister's Panel during preparation
of 1998 Transport White Paper 1997-98
Member, Foresight Agriculture, Natural Resources and
Environment Panel, Office of Science and Technology
1994-96
Member, Strategic Research Board of Economic and Social Research Council 2007 -
Professor Judith Petts
Head of the School of Geography, Earth and Environment Sciences at the University of Birmingham
Professor of Environmental Risk Management,University of Birmingham, 1999-
Member, NERC Council, 2000-2006
Member Royal Society in Science Group, 2005-
Member, EPSRC Societal Issues Pane, 2005-
Member, Higher Education Fundinf Councils' Research Assessment Exercise Panel in Geography and Environmental Studies, 2005-
Member, OSI Sciencewise Strategy Group, 2004-
Member, Environmental Advisory Group, Onyx Environmental PLC, 1999-
Former Specialist Advisor House of Commons Environment, Transportand Regional Affairs Committee and House of Lords Sub-Committee C
Professor Steve Rayner FRAI, FRSA, FAAAS, FSfAA
James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization, Saïd Business
School, Oxford University
Professor of Environment and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 1999-2003
Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA 1996-1999
Director, ESRC Science in Society Programme
Member, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Past President, Sociology and Social Policy Section of the British Association
John Speirs CBE LVO MA MBA
FRSA
Member of the Chemistry Leadership Council 2004- and Chairman of its
Futures Group Committee 2003-
Past President, National Society for Clean Air and Environmental
Protection 2002-2003
Director, Carbon Trust 2001-
Member, Management Committee of the Prince of Wales's Business and Environment
Programme 1996-, and Chairman of its UK faculty 1994-2002
Member, Advisory Committee, Kleinwort Benson Equity Partners 1991-
Chairman, Dramgate Limited 1991-
Managing Director, Norsk Hydro (UK) Limited 1981-2001
Past President, Aluminium Federation 1997-1998
Member of the Chemical Industry Association Council 1993-2002 and chairman of its Public Affairs Committee 1993-2000
Member, Science and Engineering Research Council 1993-94
Member, Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment
1991-95
Chairman, Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Family Health
Services Authority 1989-95
Divisional Director, National Enterprise Board, 1976-81
Professor Janet Sprent OBE
DSc FRSE FRSA FLS
Honorary Research Professor, Scottish Crop Research Institute
Emeritus Professor of Plant Biology, University of Dundee
Board Member, Scottish Natural Heritage
Member SHEFC 1992-96
Member, Natural Environment Research Council 1991-95
Governor, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute 1990-2000;
Chairman 1995-2000
Honorary Member, British Ecological Society
Professor Lynda M. Warren, PhD FBiol
Emeritus Professor of Environmental Law, University of Wales, Aberstwyth
Board Member of Environment Agency
Board Member of British Geological Society
Member of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM)
Member of Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) 1994-20003
Chair of Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Review 1998-2000
Member of Joint Nature Conservation Committee 1997-2003
Trustee of Field Studies Council
Trustee of the Association of River Trusts
Trustee of Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales
Trustee of WWF-UK 2002-05
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