Ron Oxburgh (Lord Oxburgh) sits on the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and is a former Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading Plc.

He trained as a geologist/geophysicist (Oxford and Princeton) and has worked in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Cornell, Stanford and Caltech.

From 1982 – 1988 he was President of Queens’ College Cambridge; 1987 – 1993 he was Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and 1993 – 2001 he was Rector of Imperial College, London.

He is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the US Academy of Sciences. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 1999 where he serves as an independent member.

His research and publications have largely been in tectonophysics and the thermal behaviour of the Earth’s crust and mantle; current interests are climate change, energy and water futures, and global development. He has chaired various government committees including one on the safety of British nuclear weapons.

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