Mr. Gordon McBean
President-elect, International Council for Science
Prof. McBean obtained a PhD in physics from the University of British Colombia (UBC), Vancouver. After serving as Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences at UBC, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister in Environment Canada (1994 to 2000). As a lead author and review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he was a member of the team that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. His service and achievements in the fields of climate change and natural hazards research have been recognized with the Orders of Canada (2008) and Ontario (2010). He currently holds chairs in the Departments of Geography and Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, and is Director of Policy Studies at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction there. Prof. McBean is also President of Global Change START International. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.