This page summarises my professional and personal affiliations, revealing some of the responsibilities and influences that shape my thinking.
Journals
I am Editor-in-Chief of the new Wiley-Blackwell Interdisciplinary Review (WIREs) Climate Change, to launch early 2010.
I co-edit with Neil Adger and Kate Brown the journal Global Environmental Change and I am on the editorial board of the journal Climate Policy. I have previously served as an editor for the journals Int. J. Climatology, Climate Research and Progress in Physical Geography.
Advisory Committees and Roles
I sit on the Advisory Board’s of the UK Energy Research Centre and the UK Climate Impacts Programme and am a member of the Steering Group for NERC’s RAPID research programme. I am also a senior advisor to the British Council and am a member of the Steering Group for the European Climate Platform, a collaboration between Clipore, a Swedish-based programme to enhance research-policy interactions, and the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
I provided scientific input into the Conservative Party’s 2006 Quality of Life policy review. I was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research between 2002 and 2007 and was a Convening Lead Author for the scenarios chapter for the IPCC Third Assessment Report and Manager of the IPCC Data Distribution Centre between 1997 and 2002.
I am a signatory to the Oxford Declaration ‘Science and faith unite on biodiversity’ under the auspicies of the James Martin Institute, issued 7 December 2007.
Personal Influences
I have been a member of the Labour Party since 1990.
I am an evangelical Christian and member of the Church of England, and my theology is not dissimilar to that espoused by Fulcrum, a movement seeking to act as a point of balance within the Anglican Church.
I am currently studying for a postgraduate Diploma in History at the University of East Anglia.
I am a member of the Society of Authors and of the Liverpool and SW Lancashire Family History Society.
I have been married since 1987 and have a 1992-born daughter.