Speakers

Dr Martin Parry OBE
Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Working Group II
IPCC

Professor Parry is Visiting Professor at The Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, and also Visiting Research Fellow at The Grantham Institute at the same iniversity. Until September 2008 he was Co-Chair of Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) based at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, U.K. Meteorological Office. Previously he was Director of the Jackson Environment Institute (JEI), and Professor of Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia (1999-2002); Director of the JEI and Professor of Environmental Management at University College London (1994-99), foundation Director of the Environmental Change Institute and Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford (1991-94), and Professor of Geography at the University of Birmingham (1989-91).

He has published about 150 scientific papers, mainly in the field of climate change and agriculture, including 5 books. From 1983 -2005 he was editor of the journal Global Environmental Change.

He is a recipient of the Peek Award (1991) from the Royal Geographical Society (UK), and the Gerbier-Mumm International Award (1993) from the World Meteorological Organisation, both for contributions to research on climate change and agriculture. He was appointed OBE in 1998 for services to the environment and to climate change.