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 - January 2010. Member of the Board of Directors, Birmingham Royal Ballet. Governor of the Royal Ballet School.
Professor Paul Curran
Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Physical Geography at City University London
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Member of Universities UK and QAA Board and President of the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society. Visiting Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Southampton. In receipt of ESA funding.
Professor Michael Lockwood
Professor of Space Environment Physics in the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Director of Research, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, University of Reading. Member of Steering Committee, Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments Centre, Reading University. Honorary visiting professor, Imperial College London.
Professor Georgina Mace CBE
Professor in Conservation Science at the Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Trustee, Natural History Museum, London (to 2012). Deputy Chair, Diversitas Science Committee (to 2011). President, British Ecological Society (2011 to 2013). Trustee of the charity WCS Europe.
Professor Thomas Meagher
Professor and Chair of Plant Biology at the University of St Andrews
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Supervisor of of NERC CASE and BBSRC CASE studentships. Chair, NERC funded NEOMICS Expert Working Group. PI on past NERC grants. Dr Laura Meagher (spouse) is an independent researcher who has worked with several of the research councils.
Professor Paul Monks
Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Leicester
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UKSA. Co-director, CEOI. Co-chair, Met Office/NERC JWCRP. NERC NCAS/NCEO PI. Chair, DEFRA AQEG. Consultancy, MKS Instruments, MARS. Grants from EC, NERC, ESPRC, TSB, Home Office, BNSC, DEFRA. Co-chair, IGBP. Member of CACGP (IUGG).
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.
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None
Lord Philip Willis
Member of the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee
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Member of the Liberal Democrat Party but does not hold any specific office or has a formal position within the current Coalition government.
Member of the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee and from time to time will call for evidence from NERC or the other Research Councils.
Writes for a number of organisations on an ad hoc basis on science policy issues.
Chair of Association of Medical Research Charities.
Ms Rebecca Willis
Independent consultant
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
Adviser, Lake District National Park Authority. Associate, Green Alliance. Adviser, Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy, University of Sussex. Associate, Ashridge Business School. Independent environmental researcher with clients in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Professor Marjorie Wilson
University of Leeds
Other interests/affiliations that may conflict with NERC business
None