Name
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins CBE, FRS
Job Title
Chair, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London
Company
Emeritus Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading
Speaker Bio
Brian Hoskins has been a Professor of Meteorology in the University of Reading for 40 years. In 2008 he became the Founding Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London and is now its Chair.
His research interest has been in weather and climate, in particular the understanding and modelling of the motion of the atmosphere on all scales.
His international roles include vice-chair of the World Climate Research Programme, President of the International Association of Atmospheric Sciences and being a member of the 2007 IPCC climate change assessment for which a Nobel Prize was awarded.
In the UK he was a member of the UK Climate Change Committee for its first 10 years.
He is a member of the science academies of the UK, USA, China and Europe.
He received a CBE in 1998 and was knighted in 2007 for services to the environment.
His research interest has been in weather and climate, in particular the understanding and modelling of the motion of the atmosphere on all scales.
His international roles include vice-chair of the World Climate Research Programme, President of the International Association of Atmospheric Sciences and being a member of the 2007 IPCC climate change assessment for which a Nobel Prize was awarded.
In the UK he was a member of the UK Climate Change Committee for its first 10 years.
He is a member of the science academies of the UK, USA, China and Europe.
He received a CBE in 1998 and was knighted in 2007 for services to the environment.