PROFESSOR JACQUELINE Mcglade

PROFESSOR JACQUELINE McGLADE

Professor McGlade became Executive Director Professor McGlade has worked extensively in of the European Environment Agency on June 1 North America, south-east Asia and west Africa; 2003. Prior to this she was Natural Environment she has published more than 100 research papers, Research Council Professorial Fellow in written popular articles, presented and appeared Environmental Informatics in the Mathematics in many radio and television programmes, Department of University College London where including her own BBC series The Ocean Planet her main areas of research included spatial data and Learning from Nature and given public analysis and informatics, expert systems, lectures worldwide on sustainable development, environmental technologies and the international conflicts over environmental impacts of politics of the environment and natural resources. industrial and natural activities, patenting of organisms, environmental technologies, the Previous appointments have included Director of release of genetically modified organisms and the UK’s Centre for Coastal & Marine Sciences, the use of multimedia in developing countries. Director of Theoretical Ecology at the Forschungszentrum Jülich Germany, Associate Professor McGlade was Chairman of The Earth Professor at the Honda funded International Centre and a Board Member of the Environment Ecotchnology Research Centre, Senior Scientist Agency. She is currently a Trustee of the Natural in the Federal Government of Canada and in the History Museum, and a member of the USA, Adrian Fellow at Darwin College, Environment Advisory Committee of the Cambridge and Professorships at Warwick European Bank for Reconstruction and University and Aachen. Professor McGlade has Development, UK-China Forum and UK-Japan won various prizes including the Minerva Prize, 21st Century Group. She is also Director of the the Swedish Jubileum Award and the Brno software company, View the World Ltd. University Gold Medal. She also has Honorary degrees from Wales (Bangor) Kent and is a Recent books: Advanced Ecological Theory Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal (Blackwell 1999); The Gulf of Guinea Large Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Marine Ecosystem (Elsevier 2002). Manufacture & Commerce.