Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
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Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, KBE, FRS, PhD, (born 2 November 1934) is a geologist, a past Rector of Imperial College, and was non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell PLC from 2004-5.
[edit] Education and Career
Born in Liverpool, 2 Nov. 1934, he attended Liverpool Institute High School from 1942 to 1950. Ron is a graduate of the University College, Oxford and Princeton University (PhD) where he worked for the famous geologist Harry Hess. He has taught geology and geophysics at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. At Cambridge he was head of the Department of Earth Sciences and President of Queens' College. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Caltech, and Cornell. From 1988 to 1993, Lord Oxburgh was chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence, and rector of Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine from 1993-2000.
He was knighted (KBE) in 1992 and made a Life Peer (crossbench) as Baron Oxburgh, of Liverpool in the County of Merseyside in 1999, where he sits on the House of Lords select committee on science and technology.
[edit] External links
- Ernest Ronald Oxburgh Profile
- The right climate for business: Ron Oxburgh talk at the Royal Society
- Ron Oxburgh: "I'm really very worried for the planet" from The Guardian
- Ron Oxburgh: Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Shell boss Ron Oxburgh "Fears for the planet"
- Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 12 October 1999
| Preceded by Eric Ash |
Imperial College London 1993–2000 |
Succeeded by Richard Sykes |
