Chair, CSaP Development Board

Ron Oxburgh (Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool) trained as a geologist/geophysicist (Oxford & Princeton). He subsequently taught and researched in those disciplines at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford and Caltech also working as a consultant for the oil industry. After a spell as President of Queens’ College Cambridge, he joined the Civil Service as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence (1987 – 1993) and chaired the investigation into the safety of UK nuclear weapons. From 1993 to 2001 he served as Rector of Imperial College.

Having been on the Board of Shell for a number of years he became Chairman in 2004 and oversaw the unification of Shell with Royal Dutch to form a single company eighteen months later at which point he stood down. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the US Academy of Sciences. He has chaired the Trustees of the Natural History Museum. He was created a life Peer in 1999 and for four years chaired the Science and Technology Select Committee of the House of Lords. He now advises the Government of Singapore on research, energy, environment and R&D strategy. He is President of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, Chairman of 2OC and Green Energy Options, and an adviser to Climate Change Capital and to Deutsche Bank.