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28 December 2019

Professor Duncan Wingham, Executive Chair of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has been appointed a Knight for services to climate science.

Professor Wingham has been appointed a knight having ‘provided outstanding intellectual and practical leadership of NERC, ensuring that UK environmental science continues to be a global leader’.

He is Professor of Climate Physics at UCL and has served as Chief Executive and then Executive Chair of NERC since 2012. During his tenure at NERC he has overseen the delivery of several high-profile capital projects including the building of the Royal Research Ships Discovery and Sir David Attenborough.

Professor Wingham has also helped to shape the UK’s science contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change through championing the development of the UK Earth System Model, and from 2014 to 2017 was Chair of the UK Collaboration in Development Research, a venture to coordinate across government departments the research funding which is focused on developing countries.

A number of members of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) community, including two Executive Chairs, have been recognised in the New Year Honours. Read more on the UKRI website.