Lord Ronald Oxburgh

Lord Oxburgh served as Chairman of The Shell Transport and Trading Company, P.L.C. until its unification with Royal Dutch Petroleum earlier this year.

He is a member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom. He is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Princeton.

He has taught geology and geophysics at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University.

Lord Oxburgh has been a member of the Science and the Engineering Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council, and the Advisory Council for Science and Technology.

From 1988 to 1993, Lord Oxburgh was chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence, and from 1993 to 2001, Rector of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

He a member of A*star (Advisory Committee on Science, Technology and Research for Singapore).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the U.S. Academy of Sciences. He is currently Chairman of Falck Renewables and blue-ng.