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Professor Duncan Wingham appointed as Executive Chair Designate of NERC | |
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2017-08-11 | |
发布年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
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正文(英文) | Professor Wingham has been appointed Executive Chair Designate of NERC following nearly six years as Chief Executive of the council, Science Minister Jo Johnson announced today. ![]() Professor Wingham and Science Minister Jo Johnson (right) Professor Wingham's current term heading up NERC has been extended from 31 December 2017 through to 31 December 2020. He will continue as Chief Executive until the end of March 2018 and, upon the creation of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) on 1 April, will become NERC's Executive Chair. Executive Chairs will be crucial to the ambition for UKRI to be a world-leading research and innovation organisation. They will lead each of the nine councils that will be part of UKRI, and the role will combine the responsibilities of the current Chair and Chief Executive of each council. Announcing the appointment, Science Minister Jo Johnson said:
Sir Mark Walport, UKRI Chief Executive Designate said:
Professor Duncan Wingham, Chief Executive and Executive Chair Designate of NERC said:
Further informationJulia Maddock Notes1. NERC is the UK's main agency for funding and managing research, training and knowledge exchange in the environmental sciences. It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make-up of life on earth, and much more. NERC is a non-departmental public body, which receives funding from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Working internationally, NERC has bases in the most hostile parts of the planet. They run a fleet of research ships and aircraft and invest in satellite technology to monitor gradual environmental change on a global scale. NERC provides knowledge, forewarning and solutions to the key global environmental challenges facing society. 2. Operating across the whole of the UK and with a combined budget of more than £6 billion, UK Research & Innovation will bring together the seven research councils, Innovate UK and a new organisation, Research England. UK Research & Innovation will ensure that the UK maintains its world leadership in research and innovation, by creating a system that is the "best environment for research and innovation to flourish". It will come into existence on 1 April 2018. 3. Professor Wingham received a BSc from the University of Leeds in 1979, and a PhD from the University of Bath in 1984, both in physics. He joined University College London (UCL) in 1986, where he held lecturing posts at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory and the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. He was appointed as a Chair in the Department of Space & Climate Physics in 1996, and was Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at UCL from 2005 to 2010. He was founder and Director of the NERC Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling (CPOM) from 2000 to 2005, which among other things discovered the widespread mass loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its origin in accelerated ocean melting. He was instigator and project scientist of the European Space Agency's CryoSat-1 and CryoSat-2 satellite missions. He was first appointed as NERC Chief Executive in 2012. |
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