NERC Council - Register of interests
The current membership's register of interests is shown below. Please also see the Code of Practice.
Mr Edmund Wallis
Chairman, Natural Environment Research Council
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Chairman WS Atkins 2005 - present. Member of the Board of Directors, Birmingham Royal Ballet. Governor of the Royal Ballet School.
Professor Alan Thorpe
Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman, Natural Environment Research Council
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Visiting Professor at the University of Reading.
Professor Paul Curran
Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Physical Geography, Bournemouth University and Visiting Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton.
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Member of the Universities UK Research Policy Committee and Business and Industry Policy Committee and QAA Board. Member of two ESA Envisat committees and an International Society for Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry committee.
Professor Huw Davies
Institute for Atmospheric & Climate Science of the ETH Zurich
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None
Professor Alastair Fitter
Member, DEFRA Central Science Laboratory Advisory Board. Member, Natural England Science Advisory Board. Member, Royal Society Council.
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
None
Professor Anne Glover
Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland (with effect from
1 August 2006); School of Medical Sciences, University of
Aberdeen
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Board member of CL:AIRE; BBSRC/LINK Bioremediation Programme
Steering Committee; NERC Environmental Genomics Programme
Steering Committee.
Professor Alex Halliday
University of Oxford
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Board of Trustees, The Natural History Museum, London.
Board of Directors and VGP President-elect, the American Geophysical
Union. President-elect, the European Association for Geochemistry.
Research Assessment Exercise 2008 Sub-panel 17. Royal Society Working Group on Higher Education.
Mr Peter Hazell
Independent
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Chairman of Argent Group Plc. Chairman of Audit Committee for Brit Insurance Holdings Plc, UK COAL Plc, and Smith & Williamson Ltd. Member of Competition Commission.
Professor Michael Lockwood
Rutherford Laboratory (Science and Technology Research Council) and University of Southampton
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Professor of both Space Plasma Physics, and Energy and the Environment at the University of Southampton. Chief Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's Space Science Department. Guest lecturer for the University Centre, Svalbard.
Professor Tom Meagher
Professor and Chair of Plant Biology at the University of St Andrews
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Supervisor of a number of NERC CASE studentships. Member, DEFRA Science Advisory Committee. PI on past NERC grants. Dr Laura Meagher (spouse) is an independent consultant who has worked with several of the Research Councils.
Professor Julia Slingo OBE
Chief Scientist Met Office
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President of the Royal Meteorological Society. Professor of Meteorology, Reading University. Member of the Joint Scientific Committee, World Climate Research Programme. Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, ECMWF. Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Center for Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies (COLA), University of Maryland, USA.
Professor Andrew Watson
Professor in the School of Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia. Member of the Programme advisory board of the Marine Biological Association.
Member of the Royal Society Geo-engineering working group.
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
None
Professor Robert Watson
Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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Director for Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre. Chair of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Director of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science & Technology for Development.
Professor Marjorie Wilson
University of Leeds
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
None
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