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AbstractSir Crispin Tickell
Chairman Emeritus, Climate Institute; Director, Policy Foresight Program at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, University of Oxford; and Chancellor, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Sir Crispin Tickell is Chancellor of the University of Kent, and is associated with other British universities as well as universities in the United States. His main interests are in the field of the environment and international affairs.
Most of his career was in the Diplomatic Service. He was Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission (1977-1980), Ambassador to Mexico (1981-1983), Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration (1984-1987), and British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1987-1990). He then became Warden of Green College, Oxford (1990-1997), and is now Director of the Policy Foresight Programme in the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University. Among other things, he has been the President of the Royal Geographical Society (1990-1993), Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute of Washington DC (1990-2002), Convenor of the Government Panel on Sustainable Development (1994-2000), a Trustee of the Baring Foundation (1992-2002), Inaugural Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (2002-2003), and Advisor At Large to the President of Arizona State University since 2002. Since 1992, he has been a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development.
He is author of Climate Change and World Affairs (1977 and 1986) and Mary Anning of Lyme Regis (1996). He has contributed to many books on environmental issues, including human population problems and conservation of biodiversity. He was a member of two Government Task Forces, one on Urban Regeneration and the other on Potentially Hazardous Near Earth Objects. He has received many honors and distinctions. He has a wide range of interests, including business and charities, climate, pre-Colombian art, and the early history of the Earth.
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