Peter R. Crane - February 28, 2013 - 1 CURRICULUM VITAE PROFESSOR SIR PETER CRANE FRS Carl W. Knobloch Jr., Dean, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA Tel: 1-203-432-5109, (001-203-432-5109 from the UK) E-mail: [email protected] Fax:1-203-432-3051 Home Address: 414 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302, U.S.A. Tel: 708-434-5367 Dean’s Office Bethany Zemba (203-432-2616 - [email protected]) Assistant Dean: Strategic Affairs, Communications, and Research Angela Kuhne: 203-432- 6865 – [email protected]) Assistant Dean: Admissions and Appointments Iris Cordero (203-436-3634, [email protected]) Senior Executive Assistant to the Dean NATIONALITY: British DATE OF BIRTH: July 18, 1954 U.K. NATIONAL INSURANCE NO: On Request U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY NO: On Request MARITAL STATUS: Married (1986 Elinor Margaret Hamer, U.S. citizen, two children) NATIONAL HONORS: Knighted in the UK, June 2004, for services to horticulture and conservation. RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS Large-scale patterns and processes of plant evolution, plant paleontology. Integrated paleobotanical and neobotanical studies of plant diversity and evolution. Conservation of plant diversity, including crop diversity. Strategic planning for collections-based not-for-profit organizations, especially museums and botanical gardens. OTHER CURRENT HONORARY APPOINTMENTS 1999-present Research Associate, Department of Geology, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. 2002-present Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, U.K. 2006-present Honorary Research Fellow, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K. CURRENT BOARD & ADVISORY PANEL APPOINTMENTS 2001-present Patron, The Florilegium Society, Sheffield, U.K. 2005-present Remuneration Committee, The Royal Society, U.K. 2006-present Board Member, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago. (Chair, Governance Committee, 2008-present) 2007-present Executive Board Member, Global Crop Diversity Trust 2008-present External Advisory Committee, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York 2008-present Advisory Council, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas at Austin Peter R. Crane - February 28, 2013 - 2 2008-present Board Member, Chicago Botanical Garden, Chicago 2009-present Board Member, WWF-US 2010- present Advisory Board, Masters in Environmental Management, National University of Singapore 2011- present Distinguished Counselor, Board of Managers, New York Botanical Garden ACADEMIES 1998 Fellow of the Royal Society, (Council 2002-2004), U.K. 2001 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 2002 Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 2004 Member, Academy Leopoldina, German National Academy. 2005 Foreign Member, Royal Society of Arts and Science, Göteborg, Sweden. 2008 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2010 Connecticut Academy of Sciences HONORARY DEGREES & FELLOWSHIPS 2000 Honorary Fellow, Royal Holloway College, University of London, U.K. 2000 Honorary Fellow, Darwin College, University of Kent, U.K. 2001 Honorary Doctor of Design, Kingston University, U.K. 2002 Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K. 2004 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Portsmouth, U.K. 2005 Honorary Fellow Honoris Causa, The Worshipful Company of Gardeners, London, U.K. 2009 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K. 2010 Honorary Master of Arts (privatim), Yale University, U.S.A. 2011 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Connecticut, U.S.A. PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION & AWARDS 1983 Palaeontological Association (U.K.) Presidents' Prize ("best presentation by a researcher under 30"). 1984 Linnean Society of London, Bicentenary Medal ("in recognition of work done by a biologist under the age of 40 years"). 1985 One of 10 "Outstanding Young Citizens", Chicago Junior Association of Commerce and Industry. 1990 Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1993 Paleontological Society, Schuchert Award. 1998 Henry Allan Gleason Award, New York Botanical Garden ("1998 outstanding publication in the fields of plant taxonomy, plant ecology or plant geography"). 2001 Hutchinson Medal, Chicago Botanical Garden. 2003 Jean Andrews Visiting Professor, University of Texas, Austin. 2006 Botanical Society of America Centennial Award. 2007 Storer Lecturer, University of California, Davis. 2008 Fellow – WWF-UK. 2009-10 World Class University Fellow, EWHA Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea. 2011-13 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer EDUCATION & PREVIOUS POSITIONS 1975 B.Sc. Department of Botany, University of Reading, U.K., Honours Degree, Botany, Class 1 1981 Ph.D. Department of Botany, University of Reading, U.K., Studies on the Flora of the Reading Beds (Upper Palaeocene) 1978-1981 Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of Reading, U.K. (fixed-term appointment) 1981-1982 Post-doctoral Research Scholar, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A. 1982-1985 Assistant Curator, Paleobotany, Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A. 1985-1990 Associate Curator, Paleobotany, Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A. Peter R. Crane - February 28, 2013 - 3 1990-1992 Curator, Paleobotany, Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A. 1991-1992 Chair, Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A. 1992-1993 Vice-President, Center for Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A. 1994-1999 Vice President, Academic Affairs, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. 1995-1999 Director, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. 1999-2006 Director and Chief Executive, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K. 2006-2009 John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, The University of Chicago OTHER PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS 1981 (Sept) Nature Conservancy (Geological Review Unit), U.K. 1984-1999 Lecturer, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, U.S.A. 1987 (Apr-Oct) Visiting Professor, Botanischer Garten und Institut für Systematische Botanik der Universität Zürich, Switzerland. 1989 (Jan-May) Visiting Professor, Department of Botany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A. 1989-1992 Research Associate (Professor), Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, U.S.A. 1989-1999 Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A. 1990-1993 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, U.K. 1992-1994 MacArthur Curator, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. 1992-1999 Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, U.S.A. 1993-1996 Acting Chair, Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. 1993-1995 Senior Mellon Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 1994-1999 Director, Center for Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. 1994-1999 A. Watson Armour III Curator, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. 1997(Apr-June) Senior Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kagawa University, Japan. 1998 (Oct) Visiting Professor, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria. 1998 (Nov-Dec) Senior Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kagawa University, Japan. 1999-2006 Visiting Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, U.K. 2000-2006 Visiting Professor, Palaeobotany, Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K. 2002-2006 Visiting Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College of Science & Technology, U.K. 2004-2006 Adjunct Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China 2003 Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 2006-2009 Lecturer, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, U.S.A. 2009-2011 Visiting Professor, EWHA Women’s University, Seoul, Word Class University Program, Korea. 2011-2012 J. Y. Pillay Distinguished Professor, Yale-NUS College, Singapore. EXTERNAL REVIEWS & STRATEGIC PLANNING 1994 External Review of Systematics and Evolution Programs, The Natural History Museum, U.K. 1994 External Review of Biology Programs at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and University of Zurich, Switzerland. 1995 External Review of Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 1996 Horizon Associates, Strategic Planning, California Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 1997 Chair, External Review of Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A. 1998 University of Massachusetts, External Review of Biology Programs, U.S.A. 1998 Smithsonian Institution, External Review of Smithsonian Institution Press, U.S.A. 1999 Chair, External Review of Programs in Botanical Science, New York Botanical Garden, U.S.A. 1999 Reader, External Review Committee, Research and Collections, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A. 1999 Chair, External Review, National Botanical Institute, South Africa. 2000-2006 Member, Overseer's Visiting Committee to the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, U.S.A. 2001-2002 Science Commission, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Peter R. Crane - February 28, 2013 - 4 2003 External Review, National Herbarium of Netherlands. 2003 External Review, Department of Biology, University of Tokyo, Japan.